numbers — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: numbers (45 013). By style: everyday 76 · literary 2 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 2 209 · legal and administrative 8 272 · UN documents 34 451.

nombre

Used about 17 655 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 44 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 012 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 240 · UN documents ≈ 14 355). Forms: nombre, nombres, nombreux.

• There's safety in numbers.

  Le nombre fait la force.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3238920 #12963263

• Beyond it, groups of islets rose from the smooth, blue waters, but in such numbers that they seemed to dot the sea like a shoal.

  Au delà, des groupes d'îlots sortaient de la plaine liquide, et si nombreux, qu'ils ressemblaient à une vaste fourmilière.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3985

• The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.

  L’Éternel, ton Dieu, te ramènera dans le pays que possédaient tes pères, et tu le posséderas; il te fera du bien, et te rendra plus nombreux que tes pères.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 30:5

• This is not a question, however, that can be resolved by force of numbers.

  Néanmoins, il ne s'agit pas d'une question qui peut être résolue par la force des nombres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 899702

• Species composition in numbers and weight;

  la composition par espèce en nombre et en poids;

  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 926164

numéros

Used about 10 354 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 92 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 791 · UN documents ≈ 6 460).

• I know your numbers.

  Je connais vos numéros.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Theocracy and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1508584 #4686097

• I believe an analysis of the most frequently dialled numbers would be a giant step forward for us.

  Je pense qu'à cet égard, une analyse par exemple des numéros les plus souvent formés sera pour nous déjà un immense progrès.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1779122

• Common Name, Identification Numbers

  Nom commun, numéros d'identification

  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 4739384

• 1. Listing of the various UN numbers concerned;

  1. énumération des différents numéros ONU concernés,

  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 6756235

• Here are the numbers of my checks.

  Voici les numéros de mes chèques.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Lulantis · checked, community translation · #56201 #11498

chiffres

Used about 3 521 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 460 · legal and administrative ≈ 172 · UN documents ≈ 2 871).

• The numbers are staggering.

  Les chiffres sont stupéfiants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5737895 #9736284

• The numbers alone should set our alarm bells ringing.

  Les chiffres alarmants devraient nous effrayer.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 141609

• The serial number is usually composed of letter(s) and numbers.

  Le numéro de série est généralement composé de lettres et de chiffres.

  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 3828995

• However, the numbers are too small to draw any definite conclusions.

  Il n ' empêche que les chiffres auxquels on a affaire sont trop faibles pour permettre d ' en tirer de véritables conclusions.

  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 11745514

• Those numbers are staggering.

  Ces chiffres sont ahurissants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5734662 #12911008

More sentences

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

• Huge numbers of soldiers and civilians were killed.

  Des quantités énormes de soldats et de civils furent tués.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #804399 #1437081

• For all the city's vaunted progressivism, it has some of the highest private school enrollment numbers in the country.

  En dépit du progressisme tant vanté de la ville, celle-ci possède l'un des taux d'inscription dans les écoles privées les plus élevés du pays.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · #9750534 #9750548

• So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.

  ils décidèrent de faire une publication dans tout Israël, depuis Beer-Schéba jusqu’à Dan, pour que l’on vînt à Jérusalem célébrer la Pâque en l’honneur de l’Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël. Car elle n’était plus célébrée par la multitude comme il est écrit.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 30:5

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