period — English to French

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

What it means: period in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: period (488 167), periods (42 939). By style: everyday 72 · literary 9 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 13 822 · legal and administrative 118 246 · UN documents 398 946.

période

Used about 315 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 8 207 · legal and administrative ≈ 99 770 · UN documents ≈ 207 784). Forms: période, périodes.

• It is a delicate period.

  C'est une période délicate.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BobbyLee and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #9400838 #9129753

• All at once, in the middle of a fine period, he interrupted himself, and his glance, ordinarily so gentle and even stupid, became menacing.

  Tout à coup, au beau milieu d'une période, il s'interrompit, et son regard, d'ordinaire assez doux et même assez bête, devint foudroyant.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5105

• It has been a long gestation period.

  La période de gestation a été longue.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 411172

• 12 sub-periods of one month each

  12 sous-périodes d’un mois chacune

  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 5212157

• Periods of instability and conflict

  Périodes d ' instabilité et de conflit

  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 29583851

pendant

Used about 15 223 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 288 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 463 · UN documents ≈ 12 467).

• But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

  Si elle enfante une fille, elle sera impure pendant deux semaines, comme au temps de son indisposition menstruelle; elle restera soixante-six jours à se purifier de son sang.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 12:5

• A cumulative sample is taken for a one-month period.

  Des échantillons cumulés ont été prélevés pendant un mois.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 24079

• The period of notice shall not commence to run, however, during maternity leave or sick leave, provided such sick leave does not exceed three months.

  Toutefois, le délai de préavis ne commence pas à courir pendant un congé de maternité ou un congé de maladie, à condition que ce dernier ne dépasse pas trois mois.

  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 21958

• Observers are also active during intersessional periods and are normally invited to participate in workshops.

  Les observateurs sont également actifs pendant les intersessions et sont généralement invités à prendre part à des ateliers.

  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 22991416

• To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

  Après qu’il eut souffert, il leur apparut vivant, et leur en donna plusieurs preuves, se montrant à eux pendant quarante jours, et parlant des choses qui concernent le royaume de Dieu.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 1:3

More sentences

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

• The period is missing.

  Il manque le point final.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3771043 #10798000

• The period is missing.

  Il manque le point.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #3771043 #8648880

• Ten years is a really long period of time.

  Dix ans, c'est long.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alec and rene1596 · checked, community translation · #1246269 #1244756

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