land — English to French

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

What it means: land in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: land (159 783), lands (18 248). By style: everyday 246 · literary 20 · biblical 1 567 · parliamentary 3 833 · legal and administrative 15 023 · UN documents 157 342.

terre

Used about 87 019 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 114 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 131 · parliamentary ≈ 1 837 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 260 · UN documents ≈ 78 671). Forms: terre, terres.

• Mary worked her land.

  Marie labourait sa terre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9116168 #2563881

• "You will have to go by land, following the shore.

  —Il faudra aller par terre, en suivant la côte.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 947

• I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

  Je t’ai connu dans le désert, Dans une terre aride.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 13:5

• Are we doing enough for peace in our own lands?

  Faisons-nous assez pour la paix sur nos propres terres?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1230749

• Restoration of degraded lands.

  Remise en état des terres dégradées.

  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 2816781

leurs

Used about 1 918 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 196 · parliamentary ≈ 80 · UN documents ≈ 1 639).

• Cats always land on their feet.

  Les chats retombent toujours sur leurs pattes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and lbdx · checked, community translation · #12186841 #12186842

• Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

  Il est vrai, ô Éternel! Que les rois d’Assyrie ont détruit les nations et ravagé leurs pays,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 19:17

• It must be possible for vessels fishing in one area to land the catch in a port in another area.

  Les navires pêchant dans une zone doivent pouvoir débarquer leurs prises dans un port d'une autre zone.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1437866

• In all the eastern lands, only our predecessors did not require that women cover their faces.

  Dans l ' Orient tout entier, les ancêtres des turkmènes ont été les seuls à ne pas demander à leurs femmes de couvrir leurs visages.

  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 11862484

• All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

  Total des villes des sacrificateurs, fils d’Aaron: treize villes, et leurs banlieues.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 21:19

More sentences

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

• Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

  Alors l’Éternel dit à Jacob : Retourne au pays de tes pères et dans ton lieu de naissance, et je serai avec toi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #7825248 #8088449

• Planes land at the airport.

  Les avions atterrissent à l'aéroport.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4400952 #8564705

• Planes land at the airport.

  Les avions se posent dans les aéroports.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4400952 #2164025

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