Elamur Translateless — English to French
How English less is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.
What it means: less in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: less (154 841). By style: everyday 392 · literary 75 · biblical 23 · parliamentary 13 933 · legal and administrative 40 658 · UN documents 99 760.
moins
Used about 87 309 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 319 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 10 159 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 400 · UN documents ≈ 62 350).
There is one less.
Il y en a un de moins.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1635525 #4901098Nothing more, nothing less.
Rien de plus, rien de moins.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 491The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
Les Israélites firent ainsi; et ils en ramassèrent les uns plus, les autres moins.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 16:17Nothing less, but nothing more.
Rien de moins, mais rien de plus.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 529339500 μg/kg or less of iron,
500 μg/kg ou moins de fer,
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 1072297
inférieure
Used about 23 954 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 553 · UN documents ≈ 10 392).
The chance of that happening is less than a thousandth of a percent.
La chance que cela se produise est inférieure à un millième de pour cent.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eastasiastudent and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1269304 #1269324"Very well," answered my uncle; "let us start from that point and count four days' storm, during which our rate cannot have been less than eighty leagues in the twenty-four hours."
—Bien! partons de ce point alors et comptons quatre jours d'orage, pendant lesquels notre vitesse n'a pas dû être inférieure à quatre-vingts lieues par vingt-quatre heures.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3268MW fraction 愦灭;lt; 1000 is less than 5 % (w/w)
Fraction PM 愦灭;lt; 1000 inférieure à 5 % (p/p)
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 616424The HIC value is less than 1000.
La valeur HIC est inférieure à 1 000;
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 12301261it concerns eels less than 20 cm in length, and
porte sur des anguilles d’une longueur inférieure à 20 cm, 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 1284865
mais
Used about 4 529 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 290 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 235).
Although the speed could not be exactly estimated, the sledge could not be going at less than forty miles an hour.
On ne pouvait l'estimer, mathématiquement, mais certainement la vitesse du traîneau ne devait pas être moindre de quarante milles à l'heure.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2745But they are also ultra-peripheral regions sharing common structural characteristics covered by Objective 1, the defining one being that their per capita GDP is less than 75 % of the Community average.
Mais ce sont également des régions ultrapériphériques qui présentent des caractéristiques communes au niveau structurel, couvertes par l'objectif 1, présentant un PIB par habitant inférieur à 75 % de la moyenne communautaire.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1853730Not less than € 61 but less than € 62,3
de 61 € ou plus mais inférieur à 62,3 €
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 2697388“We must look out for something suitable for you; much less pretentious, since you have nothing, but nice and pretty all the same.
--Il faudrait trouver quelque chose d'approchant pour toi, bien plus modeste puisque tu n'as rien, mais assez gentil tout de même.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 866Not less than € 42,5 but less than € 43,4
de 42,5 € ou plus mais inférieur à 43,4 €
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 2697403
ou
Used about 4 072 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 290 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 694 · UN documents ≈ 2 078).
Even though meat is more expensive than fish, the nutritional quality of the two is more or less the same.
Bien que la viande soit plus chère que le poisson, la qualité nutritive des deux est peu ou prou la même.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and sysko · checked, community translation · #11669965 #1085695Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.”
Est-ce aujourd’hui que j’ai commencé à consulter Dieu pour lui? Loin de moi! Que le roi ne mette rien à la charge de son serviteur ni de personne de la maison de mon père, car ton serviteur ne connaît de tout ceci aucune chose, petite ou grande.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 22:15Mr President, the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed less than 18 months ago by all the Heads of State and Government.
- Monsieur le Président, il n’y a pas 18 mois que le traité établissant une Constitution pour l’Europe a été signé par tous les chefs d’État ou de gouvernement.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 727896Special fissionable material when used in gram quantities or less as a sensing component in instruments; and
Produits fissiles spéciaux utilisés en quantités de l'ordre du gramme ou en quantités inférieures comme élément sensible d'un instrument; 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 4026246:: bioaccumulated with attendant risk to aquatic organisms or to human health with a short retention of the order of one week or less; or
bioaccumulation avec risque inhérent pour les organismes aquatiques ou la santé humaine, et à courte durée de rétention (de l ' ordre d ' une semaine maximum); ou
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 12661759
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
I cannot even boil water, much less roast a turkey.
Je ne sais même pas faire bouillir de l'eau, alors faire rôtir une dinde...
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scott · checked, community translation · #253297 #7341It is none the less true.
C'est néanmoins vrai.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Kat and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #42991 #948627That's more or less all I can say at the moment.
C'est à peu près tout ce que je peux dire pour l'instant.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6205953 #10953797
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