islands — English to French

How English islands 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: islands (58 838). By style: everyday 29 · literary 4 · biblical 29 · parliamentary 1 718 · legal and administrative 4 160 · UN documents 52 898.

îles

Used about 47 372 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 1 539 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 900 · UN documents ≈ 41 878).

• Greece has many islands.

  La Grèce a beaucoup d'îles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by freddy1 and Rockaround · checked, community translation · #2122300 #6820564

• If this torrent had not been arrested in its fall by the formation of the sides of the mountain, it would have gone on to the sea and formed more islands.

  Si ce torrent n'eût pas été arrêté dans sa chute par la disposition des flancs de la montagne, il serait allé se précipiter dans la mer et former des îles nouvelles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1323

• King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea.

  Le roi Assuérus imposa un tribut au pays et aux îles de la mer.

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

• Islands have to be helped.

  Les îles doivent être aidées.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 588932

• VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S.

  ÎLES VIERGES DES ÉTATS-UNIS

  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 3350091

canaries

Used about 158 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 72 · legal and administrative ≈ 87).

• Seven regions are also affected and these are the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion.

  Pour les régions, les Açores, Madère, les Canaries, la Guadeloupe, la Guyane, la Martinique et la Réunion.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 207464

• The territory of the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands

  Le territoire de la province de Las Palmas aux Canaries

  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 1699134

• It could be said, perhaps, that since the amendments approved for the Canary Islands, numbers 5 to 8, are so strictly drawn up, they might allow little margin for subsequent development.

  On peut peut-être signaler que les amendements portant sur les Canaries - 5 à 8 - sont formulés de façon très stricte, et laissent probablement peu de marge pour une évolution ultérieure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1801213

More sentences

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

• I spent my holidays on the Balearic Islands.

  J'ai passé mes vacances aux Baléares.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and Aiji · checked, community translation · #9311736 #1083313

• I spent my vacation in the Balearic Islands.

  J'ai passé mes vacances aux Baléares.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6949742 #1083313

• Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the LORD has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

  Iles, écoutez-moi! Peuples lointains, soyez attentifs! L’Éternel m’a appelé dès ma naissance, Il m’a nommé dès ma sortie des entrailles maternelles.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 49:1

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