provinces — English to French

How English provinces is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: provinces (21 551). By style: everyday 6 · literary 2 · biblical 29 · parliamentary 220 · legal and administrative 1 030 · UN documents 20 264.

provinces

Used about 19 807 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 188 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 009 · UN documents ≈ 18 575).

• How many provinces does Canada have?

  Combien de provinces compte le Canada ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and tras · checked, community translation · #1820599 #7368188

• He made up his mind that the robber had stopped somewhere on the route and taken refuge in the southern provinces.

  Il dut croire que son voleur, s'arrêtant à une des stations du Peninsular-railway, s'était réfugié dans les provinces septentrionales.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1102

• So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

  Lorsque les serviteurs des chefs des provinces et l’armée qui les suivait furent sortis de la ville,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 20:19

• The most popular areas are the poor provinces.

  Les zones les plus prisées sont les provinces pauvres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 145124

• 40 % for the other provinces,

  40 % pour les autres provinces.

  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 535088

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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.

• How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!

  Eh quoi! Elle est assise solitaire, cette ville si peuplée! Elle est semblable à une veuve! Grande entre les nations, souveraine parmi les états, Elle est réduite à la servitude!

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

• The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided Jean Valjean to take her with him.

  La servante était une fille appelée Toussaint que Jean Valjean avait sauvée de l'hôpital et de la misère et qui était vieille, provinciale et bègue, trois qualités qui avaient déterminé Jean Valjean à la prendre avec lui.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19151

• The head of the government of one of the nine provinces belongs to this party and it is involved in all the other provincial governments.

  Elle compte en ses rangs le Landeshauptmann, le gouverneur, d'un des neuf États fédérés et participe à tous les autres gouvernements.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5328

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