instead — English to French

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

What it means: instead in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: instead (41 100). By style: everyday 215 · literary 24 · biblical 31 · parliamentary 8 526 · legal and administrative 4 690 · UN documents 27 614.

lieu

Used about 15 089 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 112 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 3 020 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 150 · UN documents ≈ 9 780).

• Act instead of talking.

  Agis au lieu de causer !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zaksocool and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5164812 #3625652

• How stupid that is, instead of being with me!”

  Comme c'est bête, au lieu d'être avec moi!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30452

• “‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  tu as été la femme adultère, qui reçoit des étrangers au lieu de son mari.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:32

• This means targeted criticism instead of general complaints.

  Cela se traduit par des critiques ciblées au lieu de griefs généraux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1249157

• Clerical error: read ‘2007’ instead of ‘2006’.

  Erreur matérielle: lire «2007» au lieu de «2006».

  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 1682416

plutôt

Used about 3 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 599 · legal and administrative ≈ 879 · UN documents ≈ 575).

• Can we do it on Monday instead?

  Pouvons-nous plutôt le faire lundi ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3329697 #5939135

• But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

  Mais les chefs des sacrificateurs excitèrent la foule, afin que Pilate leur relâchât plutôt Barabbas.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 15:11

• We should instead have fewer sittings in Brussels and work on Fridays.

  Il faudrait plutôt faire moins de sessions à Bruxelles et travailler le vendredi.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1625279

• emptying of the equipment with a pump or under vacuum instead of gravity emptying;

  les équipements sont vidés au moyen d'une pompe ou pompe à vide plutôt que par gravité,

  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 4527679

• (a) In paragraphs 1 and 2, reference should be made to " notice " instead of " registration " ; and

  a) Aux paragraphes 1 et 2, il faudrait faire référence à un " avis " plutôt qu ' à une " inscription " ; et

  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 23855971

More sentences

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

• I'd rather you go there instead of me.

  Je préférerais que tu y ailles à ma place.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10625914 #10625917

• I may give up soon and just nap instead.

  Il se peut que j'abandonne bientôt et fasse une sieste à la place.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by brauliobezerra and ANH_DAO · checked, community translation · #1300 #3116

• I bought a bicycle instead.

  J'ai acheté un vélo à la place.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4666049 #7771191

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