light — English to French

How English light is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: light in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: light (153 514), lights (4 693). By style: everyday 833 · literary 163 · biblical 216 · parliamentary 6 961 · legal and administrative 22 568 · UN documents 127 466.

feux

Used about 52 000 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 659 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 526 · UN documents ≈ 47 800).

• There are no traffic lights on the motorway.

  Il n'y a pas de feux de circulation sur l'autoroute.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10977116 #10977782

• “Ah,” said Mr. Fogg, “is that place where we see the lights Queenstown?”

  --Ah! fit Mr. Fogg, c'est Queenstown, cette ville dont nous apercevons les feux?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3006

• The traffic lights are misleading.

  Les feux de signalisation sont trompeurs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1398020

• runway edge lights; or

  les feux de bord de piste; ou

  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 1589930

• Number of blue cones/lights

  Nombre de cônes, feux bleus

  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 20902804

lumière

Used about 24 002 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 495 · literary ≈ 87 · biblical ≈ 121 · parliamentary ≈ 2 125 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 586 · UN documents ≈ 18 589). Forms: lumière, lumières.

• I can see the light.

  Je peux voir la lumière.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and martin9 · checked, community translation · #323700 #1608566

• What is the use of “half-lights”?

  À quoi bon les «demi-lumières»?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12685

• While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

  Pendant que je suis dans le monde, je suis la lumière du monde.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 9:5

• (Lights in the chamber were malfunctioning) Dell'Alba (TDI).

  (La lumière fonctionne mal dans la salle) Dell'Alba (TDI).

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2042352

• The regular light transmittance shall not be less than 70 per cent.

  Le facteur de transmission régulière de la lumière ne doit pas être inférieur à 70 %.

  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 5517846

éclairage

Used about 17 185 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 220 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 351 · UN documents ≈ 14 605).

• I hate fluorescent lights.

  Je déteste l'éclairage fluorescent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2178964 #3658899

• I agree it should be possible to turn off daytime running lights.

  Je considère également qu'il doit être possible d'exclure l'éclairage de jour.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 340498

• the light source module specific identification code.

  le code d’identification propre au module d’éclairage;

  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 5455490

• Lighting and Light-Signalling (GRE) TRANS/WP.29/GRE/46

  Éclairage et signalisation lumineuse (GRE)

  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 8483526

• Secondly, it was forecast in Ireland that the euro as a currency would be something like a vehicle with no brakes, no steering wheel and no lights.

  Deuxièmement, en Irlande on s'imaginait que l'euro, en tant que monnaie, serait comme une voiture sans freins, sans volant et sans éclairage.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1159925

More sentences

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

• The light bulb has burned out.

  L'ampoule a grillé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · #279159 #626188

• Can you do with a light meal for lunch?

  Pouvez-vous vous contenter d'un repas léger pour le déjeuner ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi_alt and Scott · checked, community translation · #70152 #398155

• You ran a red light.

  Tu es passé au feu rouge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #15950 #1788143

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