ideas — English to French

How English ideas is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: ideas (26 829). By style: everyday 236 · literary 35 · parliamentary 4 389 · legal and administrative 465 · UN documents 21 704.

idées

Used about 21 444 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 231 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 3 566 · legal and administrative ≈ 436 · UN documents ≈ 17 182).

• I have some ideas.

  J'ai quelques idées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2360326 #6939992

• He rallied his ideas.

  Il rallia ses idées.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9099

• The ideas themselves, in fact, are not new.

  Ces idées ne sont certes pas neuves en elles-mêmes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 169937

• exchange of information and ideas;

  l'échange d'informations et d'idées;

  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 412878

• Now is the time for good ideas, and more importantly, for action.

  Le temps est venu de proposer des bonnes idées, et surtout d ' agir.

  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 22350990

nouvelles

Used about 92 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 91).

• Now, as he went, he studied the groups, wandering round them full of a fresh set of ideas.

  Il allait maintenant frôlant les groupes, tournant autour, saisi par des pensées nouvelles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1213

• However, this report also proposes new and unacceptable ideas.

  En outre, les nouvelles orientations proposées dans le présent rapport sont inadmissibles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 42118

More sentences

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

• Have you got any ideas yet?

  Avez-vous déjà une quelconque idée ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1693759 #1696356

• “Ideas are no use,” returned the American, shrugging his shoulders, “as the engineer assures us that we can pass.”

  --Pas de réflexion, c'est inutile! répondit l'Américain interpellé en haussant les épaules, puisque le mécanicien assure qu'on passera!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2386

• Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are fugitives from justice.

  L'idée refuse presque de se laisser exprimer par ces substantifs repris de justice.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21415

Grammar

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