long — English to French

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

What it means: long in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: long (203 596), longs (76). By style: everyday 2 672 · literary 178 · biblical 229 · parliamentary 26 421 · legal and administrative 18 028 · UN documents 156 144.

long

Used about 128 634 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 581 · literary ≈ 82 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 16 767 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 204 · UN documents ≈ 95 964). Forms: long, longs, longtemps, longue.

• Maria has long hair.

  Maria a de longs cheveux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5994 #450487

• They had not long to wait.

  L'attente ne fut pas longue.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25922

• The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

  Des laboureurs ont labouré mon dos, Ils y ont tracé de longs sillons.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 129:3

• This is not a matter of a wishful long-term perspective.

  Il ne s'agit pas d'un vague rêve à long terme.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1072863

• Medium and long-grain A

  Riz moyen et long A

  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 1873976

terme

Used about 2 173 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 546 · UN documents ≈ 1 627).

• Long six-month EUR/GBP forward contract (i.e. long GBP short EUR).

  Position longue sur contrat à terme (forward) EUR/GBP à six mois (c'est-à-dire longue GBP, courte EUR).

  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 4924924

• Hamlet is also aware of her power; he is buffeted by the slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune, and he longs to end his life, but he fears God ' s prohibition against suicide.

  Hamlet lui aussi est conscient de son pouvoir : il se voit fustigé par les frondes et les flèches de la terrible Fortune, et souhaite mettre un terme à sa vie, même s ' il craint l ' interdiction de Dieu contre le suicide.

  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 8763350

• 67 This Standard uses the term ‘non-current’ to include tangible, intangible and financial assets of a long-term nature.

  67 La présente Norme regroupe sous le terme d’actifs «non courants» les immobilisations corporelles, les immobilisations incorporelles et les actifs financiers destinés à être détenus pour une longue durée.

  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 1639592

More sentences

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

• You may take the book home so long as you don't get it dirty.

  Tu peux amener le livre chez toi tant que tu ne le salis pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by trieuho and Scott · checked, community translation · #25716 #406144

• I don't like long drives.

  Je n'aime pas conduire sur de longues distances.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #259523 #14754

• I don't know how long I slept.

  Je ne sais pas combien de temps j'ai dormi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10796491 #10809991

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