older — English to French

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

What it means: older in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: older (30 937), olders (1). By style: everyday 472 · literary 2 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 280 · legal and administrative 659 · UN documents 28 520.

âgées

Used about 18 090 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 587 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 · UN documents ≈ 17 461).

• and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

  Dis que les femmes âgées doivent aussi avoir l’extérieur qui convient à la sainteté, n’être ni médisantes, ni adonnées au vin; qu’elles doivent donner de bonnes instructions,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · TIT 2:3

• Enhancing the quality of life of older people (

  Amélioration de la qualité de vie des personnes âgées (

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052946

• Specific attention should be paid to the younger and older members of the population.

  Les personnes plus jeunes et plus âgées doivent faire l’objet d’une attention particulière.

  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 1431705

• The Commissioner is a champion for older people.

  La Commissaire défend les droits des personnes âgées.

  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 25787651

• Older people should be seen as an asset.

  Les personnes âgées devraient être considérées comme un avantage.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1429943

âgés

Used about 3 356 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 160 · legal and administrative ≈ 275 · UN documents ≈ 2 910).

• The older children helped the younger ones.

  Les enfants les plus âgés aidaient les plus jeunes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3250943 #3251614

• Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he.

  Comme ils étaient plus âgés que lui, Élihu avait attendu jusqu’à ce moment pour parler à Job.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 32:4

• So it is important to remove the older animals.

  Il est donc important d'éliminer les animaux plus âgés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 154735

• calves are older than fourteen days,

  les veaux sont âgés de plus de quatorze jours,

  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 629150

• Children age 12 or older are usually present in court.

  Les enfants âgés de 12 ans ou plus sont généralement présents au tribunal.

  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 9122651

ans

Used about 3 146 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 98 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 27 · legal and administrative ≈ 110 · UN documents ≈ 2 910).

• Bill is two years older than I.

  Bill a deux ans de plus que moi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and hirymnak · checked, community translation · #34502 #14176

• Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night.

  Fantine depuis la veille avait vieilli de dix ans.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4107

• "An older man who was about 60 added: "I only received EUR 20 000" .

  Un monsieur plus âgé, d'environ 60 ans, a ajouté : "Moi, je n'ai reçu que 20 000 euros."

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 58016

• Young children: Children older than 36 months and younger than 8 years

  Jeunes enfants: entre 36 mois et 8 ans

  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 1969515

• Population aged 15 years or older by religion and by region

  Répartition de la population âgée de 15 ans et plus, par religion, par région

  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 28302400

personnes

Used about 27 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27).

• On 26 March, those same people, in that same country, 18 months older and wiser, posed themselves the question as to how to win the peace.

  Le 26 mars, ces mêmes personnes, dans ce même pays, riches de 18 mois de sagesse en plus, se sont posé la question de savoir comment gagner la paix.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 802896

More sentences

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

• As we grow older, our memory becomes weaker.

  Plus nous grandissons, plus notre mémoire faillit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #282173 #129836

• I've kept my weight down even though many of my friends have gained weight as they've grown older.

  J'ai contenu mon poids alors même que beaucoup de mes amies en ont gagné tandis qu'elles prenaient de l'âge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2396202 #2400032

• He's older than your father!

  Il est plus vieux que ton père !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and maydoo · checked, community translation · #2343200 #3503704

Grammar

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