percentage — English to French

How English percentage is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: percentage in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: percentage (66 325), percentages (5 257). By style: everyday 8 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 658 · legal and administrative 13 728 · UN documents 56 187.

pourcentage

Used about 55 104 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 399 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 727 · UN documents ≈ 40 970). Forms: pourcentage, pourcentages.

• Tom wants a better percentage of the profits.

  Tom veut un plus gros pourcentage du profit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and arnxy20 · checked, community translation · #2031370 #2765949

• We have also changed the percentages.

  Nous avons aussi modifié les pourcentages.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 708715

• The actual percentage is used.

  Utiliser le pourcentage mesuré.

  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 1048775

• Percentage received against obligation

  Pourcentage du montant dû

  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 17102670

• What percentage of our bodies is water?

  Quel pourcentage de notre corps est constitué d'eau ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4061382 #8954246

taux

Used about 4 734 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 4 682).

• Turning to the bands and the percentages for resale rights, there are major differences in the Member States.

  Si nous examinons les tranches, les taux du droit de suite, nous constatons de grandes différences selon les États membres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1702741

• (d) Number and percentage of dropouts and repetition

  d) Nombre et taux d ' abandons scolaires et de redoublements

  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 18829858

• The average corporation tax rate, for example, fell by a total of 15 percentage points across the old EU from the end of the 1980s onwards.

  Depuis la fin des années 80, le taux d’imposition moyen des entreprises, par exemple, a diminué d’un total de 15 points à travers l’ancienne UE.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 750168

• Activity rate, by sex and by nationality, 2000 (percentages)

  Taux d ' activité par sexe et par nationalité en 2000 Ensemble

  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 8994249

• The rapporteur has now quoted far higher percentages, but the fact is that ambient noise is a serious and a major environmental problem.

  Le rapporteur a déjà cité des taux nettement plus élevés, mais il est un fait que le bruit ambiant constitue un problème environnemental à la fois important et sérieux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 135699

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

• Since leaving London, what with travelling expenses, bribes, the purchase of the elephant, bails, and fines, Mr. Fogg had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way, and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank robber promised to the detectives, was rapidly diminishing.

  En effet, depuis qu'il avait quitté Londres, tant en frais de voyage qu'en primes, en achat d'éléphant, en cautions et en amendes, Phileas Fogg avait déjà semé plus de cinq mille livres (125 000 F) sur sa route, et le tant pour cent de la somme recouvrée, attribué aux détectives, allait diminuant toujours.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1139

• If we cannot afford to sacrifice a percentage of this wealth in order to protect defenceless animals, we cannot call ourselves civilised.

  Si nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre de sacrifier une fraction de cette richesse à la protection d'animaux sans défense, nous ne pouvons pas qualifier notre société de "civilisée".

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 863406

• On the one hand the cost of fuel as a percentage of the total earnings of a fisher can go up as high as to represent 50-60% of his total earnings.

  D'une part, la part du coût du carburant pour un pêcheur peut atteindre 50 à 60 % du total de ses revenus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1098349

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