matter — English to French

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

What it means: matter in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: matter (154 119), matters (185 771). By style: everyday 957 · literary 88 · biblical 82 · parliamentary 36 485 · legal and administrative 24 243 · UN documents 278 035.

question

Used about 181 986 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 12 162 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 576 · UN documents ≈ 162 187). Forms: question, questions.

• It's a matter of principle.

  C'est une question de principe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and GB3 · checked, community translation · #3596980 #3597064

• The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”

  Les Gabaonites lui répondirent: Ce n’est pas pour nous une question d’argent et d’or avec Saül et avec sa maison, et ce n’est pas à nous qu’il appartient de faire mourir personne en Israël. Et le roi dit: Que voulez-vous donc que je fasse pour vous?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 21:4

• You referred to energy matters.

  Vous avez fait référence aux questions énergétiques.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1427173

• The Committee may consider any matter related to this Agreement.

  Le comité se prononce sur toute question relative au présent accord.

  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 864509

• Country programmes and related matters

  Programmes de pays et questions connexes

  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 27879210

matière

Used about 33 785 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 420 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 293 · UN documents ≈ 26 066).

• A matter for declamations, say the clever.

  Matière à déclamations, disent les habiles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10925

• If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

  Si une cause relative à un meurtre, à un différend, à une blessure, te paraît trop difficile à juger et fournit matière à contestation dans tes portes, tu te lèveras et tu monteras au lieu que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, choisira.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 17:8

• A lax attitude on the matter only benefits fraudsters.

  Le laxisme en la matière ne profite qu'aux fraudeurs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 873266

• EUR/100 kg dry matter

  EUR/100 kg de matière sèche

  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 1251091

• International cooperation in tax matters

  Coopération internationale en matière fiscale

  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 22596825

More sentences

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

• No matter how rich you are, you can't buy true love.

  Qu'importe combien on est riche, on ne peut acquérir le véritable amour.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1449843 #1450077

• No matter what happens, I'll support you.

  Quoi qu'il arrive, je te soutiendrai.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3748312 #841726

• No matter how much I consider it I do not understand.

  J'ai beau y réfléchir, je ne comprends pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and kurisutofu · checked, community translation · #119888 #6014

Grammar

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