ladies — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: ladies (29 539). By style: everyday 58 · literary 12 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 28 927 · legal and administrative 6 · UN documents 533.

mesdames

Used about 18 328 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 18 079 · UN documents ≈ 222).

• Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

  Bonsoir Mesdames et Messieurs !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fanty and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1597893 #1598006

• This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of the sea.

  Ceci, mesdames, que vous buvez d'un air tranquille, est du vin de Madère, sachez-le, du cru de Coural das Freiras qui est à trois cent dix-sept toises au-dessus du niveau de la mer!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3123

• (FR) Ladies and gentlemen, it is my turn now!

  (EN) Mesdames et Messieurs, c'est à mon tour maintenant!

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1172165

• Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,

  Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs,

  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 23171071

• Ladies and gentlemen, good evening!

  Mesdames et Messieurs, bonsoir !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11245411 #11245421

chers

Used about 10 256 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 10 245 · UN documents ≈ 11).

• Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to act quickly.

  Monsieur le Président, mes chers collègues, je vous demande de faire vite !

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 42275

• My dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, today is 2 July 2009.

  Chers collègues, nous sommes aujourd ' hui le 2 juillet 2009.

  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 20497195

• Ladies and gentlemen, the debate is now adjourned to 9.00 p.m.

  Mes chers collègues, je déclare interrompue la discussion commune qui sera reprise à 21 heures.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1829973

• Ladies and gentlemen, we will discuss all this when we come to debate Mr Funk's report.

  Mes chers collègues, nous parlerons de tout cela dans le cadre du débat sur le rapport de M. Funk.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1637632

• Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the waste mounting is still growing.

  Monsieur le Président, chers collègues, Madame la Commissaire, la montagne de déchets ne cesse de croître.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 258473

madame

Used about 4 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4).

• Would madam care to sit down? Henriette, please see to it that the ladies are seated. I'm in a hurry, my dear, and I haven't got time to sit down.

  Madame voudrait-elle bien s'asseoir ? Henriette, faites asseoir ces dames. Je suis pressée, ma chère, et je n'ai pas le temps de m'asseoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12999690 #12999686

• Would madam care to sit down? Henriette, please see to it that the ladies are seated. I'm in a hurry, my dear, and I haven't got time to sit down.

  Madame voudrait-elle bien s'asseoir ? Henriette, assurez-vous que ces dames soient assises. Je suis pressée, ma chère, et je n'ai pas le temps de m'asseoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12999690 #12999689

• Would madam be so kind as to sit down? Henrietta, see to it that these ladies are seated. I am in a hurry, my dear, and have not the time to sit down myself.

  Madame voudrait bien s'assoir ? Henriette, veillez à ce que ces dames soient assises. Je suis pressée, ma chère, et je n'ai pas le temps de m'assoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12999682 #12999688

messieurs

Used about 2 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2).

• “It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies.”

  --C'est un papier que ces messieurs ont laissé pour ces dames.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3199

• “Because,” said the waiter, “the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it to the ladies for an hour.”

  --Parce que ces messieurs, reprit le garçon, ont commandé de ne le remettre à ces dames qu'au bout d'une heure.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3201

More sentences

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

• I don't know any of the five ladies.

  Je ne connais aucune de ces cinq femmes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #252596 #7483

• The two ladies smiled at each other.

  Les deux femmes se sourirent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #72829 #6380824

• Ladies use fans when it is hot.

  Les dames se servent d'éventails lorsqu'il fait chaud.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and lbdx · checked, community translation · #456289 #11937085

Grammar

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