instruments — English to French

How English instruments 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: instruments (160 494). By style: everyday 24 · literary 9 · biblical 44 · parliamentary 8 031 · legal and administrative 25 918 · UN documents 126 468.

instruments

Used about 152 359 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 7 362 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 758 · UN documents ≈ 121 199).

• My father plays five instruments.

  Mon père joue de cinq instruments.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11470908 #11470919

• God has his instruments.

  Dieu a ses instruments.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30728

• The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.

  Les Lévites prirent place avec les instruments de David, et les sacrificateurs avec les trompettes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 29:26

• I look forward to putting those instruments to work, together with you.

  Je suis impatiente de mettre en œuvre ces instruments en votre compagnie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 891308

• INSTRUMENTS, DATA AND EQUIPMENT

  INSTRUMENTS, DONNÉES ET ÉQUIPEMENT

  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 4669912

ils

Used about 7 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 7).

• They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to the LORD’s house.

  Ils entrèrent à Jérusalem et dans la maison de l’Éternel, au son des luths, des harpes et des trompettes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 20:28

• The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

  Ainsi parle l’Éternel: A cause de trois crimes de Damas, Même de quatre, je ne révoque pas mon arrêt, Parce qu’ils ont foulé Galaad sous des traîneaux de fer.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 1:3

• the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. They shall serve in there.

  les toiles du parvis et le rideau de l’entrée de la porte du parvis, tout autour du tabernacle et de l’autel, leurs cordages et tous les ustensiles qui en dépendent. Et ils feront tout le service qui s’y rapporte.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 4:26

• As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

  Comme ils revenaient, lors du retour de David après qu’il eut tué le Philistin, les femmes sortirent de toutes les villes d’Israël au-devant du roi Saül, en chantant et en dansant, au son des tambourins et des triangles, et en poussant des cris de joie.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 18:6

• the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.

  les colonnes du parvis formant l’enceinte, leurs bases, leurs pieux, leurs cordages, tous les ustensiles qui en dépendent et tout ce qui est destiné à leur service. Vous désignerez par leurs noms les objets qui sont remis à leurs soins et qu’ils ont à porter.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 4:32

More sentences

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

• Can you play any musical instruments?

  Pouvez-vous jouer d'un instrument de musique ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dominiko · checked, community translation · #25181 #9694

• Do you play any instruments?

  Jouez-vous d'un quelconque instrument ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4208064 #4217558

• Do you play any instruments?

  Jouez-vous d'un instrument quelconque ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4208064 #4217556

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