most — English to French

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

What it means: most in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: most (356 735). By style: everyday 1 288 · literary 122 · biblical 210 · parliamentary 37 805 · legal and administrative 16 395 · UN documents 300 915.

plus

Used about 162 810 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 859 · literary ≈ 97 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 27 566 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 881 · UN documents ≈ 125 381).

• That's what's most important.

  C'est ce qui est le plus important.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5134820 #5616306

• All will be done in the most profound secrecy.

  Tout se passera dans le plus grand secret.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11666

• If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

  Si c’est dans cette vie seulement que nous espérons en Christ, nous sommes les plus malheureux de tous les hommes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 15:19

• No, I do not think it is the most modern.

  Non, je ne pense pas que ce soit la plus moderne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1575773

• Such information shall be the most recent available to the issuer.

  Ces informations sont les plus récentes dont l’émetteur dispose.

  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 4346790

plupart

Used about 54 454 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 322 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 1 575 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 391 · UN documents ≈ 50 153).

• Most towns have an airport.

  La plupart des villes ont un aéroport.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11223697 #11223715

• Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

  Ensuite, il est apparu à plus de cinq cents frères à la fois, dont la plupart sont encore vivants, et dont quelques-uns sont morts.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 15:6

• (EL) Mr President, unfortunately I do not share the huge optimism expressed by most speakers in the House.

  (EL) Monsieur le Président, je ne partage malheureusement pas le très grand optimisme affiché par la plupart des orateurs dans ce Parlement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1484501

• Reference to Annex I, Section I.1, to Directive 2008/68/EC: Most requirements of the ADR.

  Référence à l’annexe I, section I.1, de la directive 2008/68/CE: la plupart des exigences de l’ADR.

  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 2224297

• Most of the girls involved were under 15.

  La plupart étaient âgées de moins de 15 ans.

  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 4009580

très

Used about 20 350 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 70 · parliamentary ≈ 788 · legal and administrative ≈ 683 · UN documents ≈ 18 807).

• “Most gracious ladies and gentlemen, we have met to do honour to a happy event which has befallen one of our friends.

  --Très gracieuses dames, Messeigneurs, nous sommes réunis pour célébrer un événement heureux qui vient de frapper un de nos amis.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 767

• I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

  J’avais dit: Vous êtes des dieux, Vous êtes tous des fils du Très-Haut.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 82:6

• I believe that it is vital to focus aid on the fleets which are most dependent on fuel and thus most affected by the current overcapacity.

  Je pense qu'il est crucial de se concentrer sur les flottes qui sont très dépendantes du gazole et donc particulièrement touchées par la surcapacité actuelle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1101863

• However, the price for the supply of shell sand, the single most significant domestic raw material, could be reduced by [愦灭※] %.

  Le prix de la livraison du sable de moulage, seule matière première locale très importante, pouvait être réduit de [愦灭※] %.

  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 5632625

• Guidance and support from Member States on this would be most welcome.

  Les conseils et l ' appui que pourraient apporter les États Membres à cet égard seraient très appréciés.

  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 17094115

More sentences

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

• Brazil fulfills most of our demand for coffee.

  Le Brésil répond à la majeure partie de notre demande en café.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5397038 #9010201

• In her most recently published book, the author praises the French language.

  Dans son livre récemment paru, l’auteure fait l’éloge de la langue française.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by etoile and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #1169906 #980391

• During that winter, writing occupied most of my free time.

  Au cours de cet hiver, l'écriture a occupé l'essentiel de mon temps libre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Cocorico · checked, community translation · #44776 #12214

Grammar

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