little — English to French

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

What it means: little in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: little (41 495). By style: everyday 2 196 · literary 409 · biblical 206 · parliamentary 10 275 · legal and administrative 819 · UN documents 27 590.

peu

Used about 18 660 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 556 · literary ≈ 136 · biblical ≈ 73 · parliamentary ≈ 6 208 · legal and administrative ≈ 341 · UN documents ≈ 10 346).

• It's a little dated.

  C'est un peu démodé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1557250 #1557257

• "You feel strong enough to walk a little way now?" he asked.

  «Te sens-tu la force de te promener un peu? me demanda-t-il.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2595

• Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

  Notre père a dit: Retournez, achetez-nous un peu de vivres.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 44:25

• Unfortunately, little information exists.

  Malheureusement, il existe peu d'informations.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1752725

• For pellets with relatively little starch sediment:

  Extraits concentrés contenant relativement peu d’amidon:

  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 900697

petit

Used about 1 476 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 366 · literary ≈ 51 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 428 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 575).

• You're a little liar.

  Tu es un petit menteur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1209949 #1211209

• Djali raised his little gilt hoof, and struck six blows on the tambourine.

  Djali leva son petit pied d'or et frappa six coups sur le tambour.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 905

• Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

  Et quiconque reçoit en mon nom un petit enfant comme celui-ci, me reçoit moi-même.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:5

• There is a little game of 'oh yes it is, oh no it isn't' going on here: Mr Weber says it is true, Mr Kallas says it is not.

  On assiste ici à un petit jeu de ping-pong entre M. Weber, qui dit que c'est vrai, et M. Kallas, qui dit que non.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1002461

• The little finger shall be in contact with the seat cushion.

  Le petit doigt doit toucher le coussin du siège.

  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 5454953

More sentences

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

• That little girl is my sister's friend.

  Cette petite fille est l'amie de ma sœur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #68229 #398033

• I just want a little more time.

  Je ne veux qu'un supplément de temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2014292 #2447887

• He had little choice.

  Il n'avait guère d'autre choix.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #1912005 #7166505

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