higher — English to French

How English higher is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: higher in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: higher (115 670). By style: everyday 91 · literary 9 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 5 095 · legal and administrative 15 452 · UN documents 95 012.

supérieur

Used about 38 534 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 318 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 575 · UN documents ≈ 35 630).

• Is there a higher purpose?

  Y a-t-il un but supérieur ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #12777641 #13365368

• Then he shouted, looking up at the higher floor: “Louise!”

  Alors il vociféra en levant la tête vers l'étage supérieur:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2048

• The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

  Les chambres occupaient plus d’espace, à mesure qu’elles s’élevaient, et l’on allait en tournant; car on montait autour de la maison par un escalier tournant. Il y avait ainsi plus d’espace dans le haut de la maison, et l’on montait de l’étage inférieur à l’étage supérieur par celui du milieu.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 41:7

• Poland provides higher education places for many of these young people.

  La Pologne offre donc l'accès aux établissements d'enseignement supérieur à nombre de ces jeunes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1060926

• In the RIP it decreased to a slightly higher level than in 2011, i.e. to 58113 tonnes.

  Au cours de la PER, elle a diminué pour s'établir à un niveau légèrement supérieur à celui de 2011, soit 58113 tonnes.

  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 3716873

plus

Used about 21 387 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 592 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 932 · UN documents ≈ 17 815).

• Prices rose higher and higher.

  Les prix grimpèrent de plus en plus haut.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #807064 #4380707

• "It seems we must go higher," said my uncle.

  —Il parait qu'il faut aller plus haut, dit mon oncle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1332

• The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

  L’étranger qui sera au milieu de toi s’élèvera toujours plus au-dessus de toi, et toi, tu descendras toujours plus bas;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 28:43

• The document also includes the possibility that growth may be higher in the future.

  Le document inclut également la possibilité que la croissance soit plus élevée à l'avenir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2026472

• However, chromium steels may contain higher proportions of carbon.

  Toutefois, les aciers au chrome peuvent présenter une teneur en carbone plus élevée;

  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 2165940

élevés

Used about 18 007 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 955 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 151 · UN documents ≈ 11 877). Forms: élevé, élevés.

• I wish I had a higher salary.

  J'aimerais avoir un salaire plus élevé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6090251 #10346578

• “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

  Autant les cieux sont élevés au-dessus de la terre, Autant mes voies sont élevées au-dessus de vos voies, Et mes pensées au-dessus de vos pensées.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 55:9

• As a result, higher wages come under even more pressure.

  En conséquence, les salaires plus élevés sont soumis à une pression encore plus forte.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 782558

• Higher costs for the acquisition of rights of way

  coûts liés à l'acquisition de droits de passage plus élevés

  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 3586702

• The repetition rate is higher among girls (20%) and in public schools (23.9%).

  Le redoublement est plus élevé chez les filles (20%) et dans l ' école publique (23,9%).

  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 15247451

niveau

Used about 5 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1).

• As global warming increases, sea levels get higher and higher.

  À mesure que le réchauffement climatique s’accentue, le niveau des mers monte de plus en plus.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Rovo · checked, community translation · #758813 #12420640

• The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside.

  Le reste du trapèze formait le jardin qui était beaucoup plus bas que le niveau de la rue Polonceau; ce qui faisait les murailles bien plus élevées encore au dedans qu'à l'extérieur.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10770

• Entertainment on his planet meant doing multidimensional higher mathematics.

  Le divertissement sur sa planète consistait à faire des mathématiques multidimensionnelles de haut niveau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1469183 #1469258

More sentences

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

• The stock exchange closed slightly higher today.

  La Bourse a clôturé en légère hausse aujourd’hui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #13406276 #13406275

• We could only hope for the intervention of higher powers.

  Nous ne pouvions qu'espérer l'intervention de puissances supérieures.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #10660468 #11052581

• I need to find a higher paying job.

  Il faut que je trouve un emploi mieux rémunéré.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6251525 #11749735

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