medium — English to French

How English medium is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: medium in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: medium (70 090), mediums (115). By style: everyday 14 · literary 7 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 7 299 · legal and administrative 9 530 · UN documents 53 352.

moyennes

Used about 22 183 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 5 308 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 754 · UN documents ≈ 11 115). Forms: moyen, moyenne, moyennes.

• The aardvark is a medium-sized animal.

  L'oryctérope est un animal de taille moyenne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #6304675 #6304693

• One area stands out: the small and medium-sized enterprise sector.

  Un secteur se distingue: les petites et moyennes entreprises.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1762362

• Durum wheat, medium quality [2]

  Blé dur, qualité moyenne [2]

  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 1858569

• sound technologies to small and medium-sized enterprises . 68 - 82 16

  petites et moyennes entreprises 68 - 82 19

  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 2917402

• It was a person of medium build and height.

  C'était une personne de corpulence et de taille moyennes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by terrywallwork and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #13706614 #14021151

terme

Used about 14 450 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 14 450).

• Medium-term plan for the period 2002-2005

  Plan à moyen terme pour la période 2002-2005

  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 10617645

• Medium-Term Strategic Plan (MTSP)

  Plan stratégique à moyen terme Conseil d ' administration

  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 26586760

• 2 (g) Medium-term programme framework, 2006-2009

  2 g) Cadre de programmation à moyen terme 2006-2009

  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 12374078

• 4 (c) Medium-term programme framework, 2000-2003

  4 c) Cadre de programmation à moyen terme, 2000-2003

  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 6451138

• 2. Proposed medium-term plan for the period 2002-2005

  2. Projet de plan à moyen terme pour la période 2002-2005

  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 7594980

plan

Used about 556 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 556).

• E. Report on thematic funding in support of the medium-term strategic plan

  Rapport sur le financement par thème au titre du plan stratégique

  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 15344822

petites

Used about 133 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 133).

• Smaller and medium-sized towns are measured against towns with populations in excess of 50 000.

  Les petites villes et les villes de taille moyenne sont jugées à l'étalon d'un chiffre de population de plus de 50 000 habitants.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998711

More sentences

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

• I want my steak medium-well, not well-done.

  Je veux mon bifteck à point, pas bien cuit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BoriQa and BoriQa · checked, community translation · #2507090 #2507124

• Humans accomplish amazing things, because they can exchange information about their knowledge and intentions via the medium of language.

  Les êtres humains accomplissent des choses extraordinaires, car ils peuvent échanger des informations sur leurs connaissances et leurs intentions grâce au langage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by al_ex_an_der and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #4801952 #13760075

• Have you heard that a psychic dwarf just escaped from prison? There's a small medium at large!

  Avez-vous entendu dire que ce voyant nain s'est échappé de prison ? Il y a un petit médium en liberté !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by madhatter5 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1540433 #1541030

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