heads — English to French

How English heads is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: heads (56 560). By style: everyday 63 · literary 36 · biblical 147 · parliamentary 3 565 · legal and administrative 2 681 · UN documents 50 068.

chefs

Used about 42 891 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 2 897 · legal and administrative ≈ 279 · UN documents ≈ 39 637).

• None of the former heads of state improved the standard of living of the French.

  Aucun des chefs d'État précédents n'a amélioré les conditions de vie des Français.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #3272771 #3272772

• Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.

  Jeuts, Schocja et Mirma. Ce sont là ses fils, chefs de famille.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 8:10

• The ball is indeed in the court of the Heads of State and Government.

  La balle est en effet dans le camp des chefs d'État et de gouvernement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1922531

• The rules for the selection shall be decided by the Heads of Delegation.

  Les règles de sélection sont décidées par les chefs de délégation.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 85956

• F. Messages from heads of State and other personalities

  F. Messages de chefs d ' État et autres personnalités

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7803709

tête

Used about 2 084 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 74 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 899). Forms: tête, têtes.

• So many heads, so many minds.

  Chaque tête, chaque avis.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #7135898 #7135895

• All dropped their heads with a gloomy air.

  Tous baissèrent la tête d'un air sombre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25685

• Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads

  Les passants l’injuriaient, et secouaient la tête,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 27:39

• The sword of Damocles that being laid off represents has been hanging over the heads of thousands of Airbus employees since January.

  L'épée de Damoclès que représente un licenciement plane au-dessus des têtes de plusieurs milliers d'employés d'Airbus depuis janvier.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 927606

• Screws and bolts without heads in steel

  Vis et boulons sans tête en acier

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4082879

état

Used about 74 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 74).

• This is pure hypocrisy and is aimed at ushering in a new 'superstate' over the heads of the peoples.

  Ceci n'est que pure hypocrisie et a pour objectif d'introduire un nouveau "super-État" sur le dos des gens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1037932

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• I can't make heads or tails of it.

  J'y comprends que couic.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and menaud · checked, community translation · #9243493 #13991312

• Towel racks, shower heads, and toilet-roll holders are bathroom accessories.

  Les porte-serviettes, les pommeaux de douche et les distributeurs de papier-toilette sont des accessoires de salle de bains.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #8597362 #11958319

• Well, you might've given me a heads-up.

  Ben, t'aurais pu me prévenir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13362638 #13362626

Grammar

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