north — English to French

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

What it means: north in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: north (82 148), norths (2). By style: everyday 152 · literary 18 · biblical 124 · parliamentary 4 893 · legal and administrative 6 766 · UN documents 70 197.

nord

Used about 69 859 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 143 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 49 · parliamentary ≈ 4 294 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 625 · UN documents ≈ 58 736).

• Amiens is north of Paris.

  Amiens est au nord de Paris.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3259545 #3259544

• "Unless, indeed, this is the North Pole!"

  —A moins que ceci ne soit le pôle nord!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 4004

• Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

  L’ouragan vient du midi, Et le froid, des vents du nord.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 37:9

• In North America it is less than 5%.

  Ainsi, en Amérique du Nord, il est inférieur à 5 %.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1079578

• Small-scale fishing in the north

  Pêche artisanale au nord

  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 4925275

sud

Used about 1 434 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 433).

• Finally, far away to the east, Vincennes, and its seven quadrangular towers to the south, Bicêtre and its pointed turrets; to the north, Saint-Denis and its spire; to the west, Saint Cloud and its donjon keep.

  Enfin, au loin, à l'orient, Vincennes et ses sept tours quadrangulaires; au sud, Bicêtre et ses tourelles pointues; au septentrion, Saint-Denis et son aiguille; à l'occident, Saint-Cloud et son donjon.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1971

• It entered over Naqurah flying north and circled the South before leaving over Naqurah.

  Il a dessiné une boucle au-dessus des régions du sud, avant de repartir en survolant Naqoura.

  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 19766301

ouest

Used about 1 433 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 433).

• Montrose Basin, to the west of a line running north-south across the harbour entrance at Scurdie Ness Lighthouse

  Montrose Basin, à l ' ouest d ' une ligne orientée nordsud passant par l ' entrée du port au phare de Scurdie Ness

  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 17321072

More sentences

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

• I love Fist of the North Star!

  J'adore Ken le survivant !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by contour and nekouma · checked, community translation · #534879 #534906

• My friend is North African.

  Mon ami est maghrébin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12976300 #12976287

• My friend is North African.

  Mon amie est maghrébine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12976300 #12976289

Grammar

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