length — English to French

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

What it means: length in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: length (35 701), lengths (1 262). By style: everyday 61 · literary 38 · biblical 77 · parliamentary 1 352 · legal and administrative 10 720 · UN documents 24 715.

longueur

Used about 20 440 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 56 · parliamentary ≈ 183 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 035 · UN documents ≈ 13 130). Forms: longueur, longueurs.

• What is the length?

  Quelle est la longueur ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and felix63 · checked, community translation · #12422366 #12422363

• She laid her two hands on Jean’s shoulders, and holding him at arm’s length she said:

  Elle posa ses deux mains sur les épaules de Jean, et le tenant à la longueur de ses bras:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1915

• It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length, and a span its width.

  Il sera carré et double; sa longueur sera d’un empan, et sa largeur d’un empan.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 28:16

• It is a fairly insignificant length of net in that situation.

  Il s'agit en l'occurrence d'une longueur de filet tout à fait insignifiante.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1692928

• Nominal length of one net

  Longueur nominale d’un filet

  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 2129975

durée

Used about 4 252 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 155 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 005 · UN documents ≈ 3 089).

• 70-80 years is the average length of a human life.

  70 ou 80 ans est la durée de vie normale des humains.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and cedo · checked, community translation · #12772081 #659189

• That is an unreasonable length of time;

  Je reconnais que c'est une durée disproportionnée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 949255

• Minimum length of training course: 5 years

  Durée minimale de formation: 5 ans

  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 908122

• C. Lengths of procedures for extradition requests

  C. Durée de la procédure

  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 13582012

• The data suggest that the optimum length of a lecture may be 30 instead of 60 minutes.

  Les données suggèrent que la durée optimale d’un cours magistral serait de 30 au lieu de 60 minutes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and zmoo · checked, community translation · #2081 #3889

mm

Used about 447 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 447).

• Limited to a maximum workpiece capacity of 150 mm outside diameter or length; and

  limitées à une capacité maximale des pièces usinables de 150 mm de dimension ou de diamètre extérieur; et

  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 959365

• The CR energy TSI allows the use of catenary systems compatible with pantograph heads geometry of lengths 1600 mm or 1950 mm (see clause 4.2.8.2.9.2).

  La STI «énergie» RC autorise l’usage de caténaires compatibles avec des géométries de pantographe (archets) de 1600 mm ou 1950 mm (voir la clause 4.2.8.2.9.2).

  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 2253064

• A flexible metal wire (so-called ‘guide wire’) with a diameter of 0,35 mm, a length ranging from 180-300 cm, two radiopaque markers and a rounded tip.

  Fil métallique souple (appelé «fil-guide»), mesurant 0,35 mm de diamètre et entre 180 et 300 cm de long, comprenant deux marqueurs radio-opaques et une extrémité arrondie.

  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 3389499

largeur

Used about 259 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 257).

• He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

  Il mesura la largeur de l’ouverture de la porte, qui était de dix coudées, et la hauteur de la porte, qui était de treize coudées.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 40:11

• From north to south The Gambia extends to a maximum of 48km, though the coastline, with its bays and promontories, is 80km in length.

  Du nord au sud, sa largeur maximale est de 48 km, même si le littoral, avec ses baies et promontoires, s ' étire sur 80 km.

  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 22214083

More sentences

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

• At length, the ship arrived at its home port.

  Le navire arriva enfin à son port d'attache.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #13072974 #11780834

• I will not go to the length of saying such things.

  Je n'irai pas jusqu'à dire de telles choses.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and kamillel · checked, community translation · #32855 #13411

• At length, we reached the top of the mountain.

  Finalement, nous avons atteint le sommet de la montagne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #38431 #10775651

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