means — English to French

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

What it means: means in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: means (304 722). By style: everyday 405 · literary 37 · biblical 40 · parliamentary 28 828 · legal and administrative 72 523 · UN documents 202 889.

moyens

Used about 96 082 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 68 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 4 805 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 109 · UN documents ≈ 76 083). Forms: moyen, moyens.

• I will come by all means.

  Je viendrai par tous les moyens.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and sysko · checked, community translation · #318227 #711065

• “Well, since there is no other means.”

  --Au fait, c'est qu'il n'y a pas d'autre moyen.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11897

• At the same time, I would prefer to reinforce Europe's competitiveness by other means.

  Je préférerais en outre renforcer la compétitivité de l'Europe par d'autres moyens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 940762

• The service provider may supply the declaration by any means.

  Le prestataire peut fournir cette déclaration par tout moyen.

  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 604404

• IX. Means of implementation [to be informed by the outcomes of the deliberations of the Forum]

  IX. Moyens de mise en œuvre [à compléter en fonction des résultats du Forum]

  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 17126920

cela

Used about 17 489 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 4 805 · UN documents ≈ 12 681).

• “It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin.”

  --Cela veut dire sacré nom d'un chien en latin.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23415

• We do not take it by any means so seriously.

  C'est trop compliqué pour nous de contrôler tout cela.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1812851

• That means that they carry the full weight of the international community.

  Cela signifie qu ' elles ont derrière elles tout le poids de la communauté internationale.

  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 775923

• “It means that I am the son of my father.”

  --Cela veut dire que je suis le fils de mon père.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13875

• Well, no, Mr President, that is by no means that!

  Eh bien non, Monsieur le Président, cela ne fait pas l'affaire!

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1757707

signifie

Used about 14 917 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 143 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 6 006 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 533 · UN documents ≈ 4 227).

• We know what it means.

  Nous savons ce que ça signifie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5009611 #8407830

• “It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette.”

  --Monsieur, cela signifie que je reprends Cosette.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9209

• Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”

  Il la saisit par la main, et lui dit: Talitha koumi, ce qui signifie: Jeune fille, lève-toi, je te le dis.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 5:41

• This means, however, that we are only at the beginning of the Budget process.

  Cependant, cela signifie que nous n'en sommes qu'au début de la procédure budgétaire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 106929

• This means that the document is for internal use only.

  Cette mention signifie que le document est exclusivement destiné à un usage interne.

  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 1832306

More sentences

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

• I don't get what the author means there.

  Je ne comprends pas ce que l'auteur veut dire par là.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1072837 #978213

• "May I use your telephone?" "By all means."

  « Puis-je vous emprunter votre téléphone ? » « Je vous en prie. »

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #73594 #135902

• It means a lot to me to know you want me to stay.

  Savoir que vous voulez que je reste veut dire beaucoup pour moi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #7240288 #4166732

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