measure — English to French

How English measure is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: measure in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: measure (95 447), measures (763 936). By style: everyday 79 · literary 11 · biblical 69 · parliamentary 42 988 · legal and administrative 176 541 · UN documents 639 695.

mesure

Used about 711 348 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 34 480 · legal and administrative ≈ 163 668 · UN documents ≈ 513 089). Forms: mesure, mesurer, mesures.

• Measures were taken.

  Des mesures furent prises.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and calypsow · checked, community translation · #6698012 #11860692

• They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though taking each other’s measure.

  Ils se considérèrent un moment dans cette pénombre, comme s'ils se prenaient mesure.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28083

• Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

  Comblez donc la mesure de vos pères.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 23:32

• That is the first measure.

  Cela c'est la première mesure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 316335

• Emergency measures in case of an accident

  Mesures d’urgence en cas d’accident

  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 2393028

More sentences

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

• He just doesn't measure up.

  Il n'est juste pas à la hauteur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #589418 #589423

• Measure each angle of the triangle.

  Mesurez chaque angle du triangle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and GB3 · checked, community translation · #2450025 #6815437

• She's got the measure of you.

  Elle t'a jaugé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AMIKEMA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1470180 #1470893

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