quite — English to French

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

What it means: quite in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: quite (32 984). By style: everyday 684 · literary 68 · parliamentary 18 043 · legal and administrative 394 · UN documents 13 795.

très

Used about 7 025 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 57 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 4 887 · legal and administrative ≈ 66 · UN documents ≈ 2 012).

• I'm doing quite well.

  Je m'en sors très bien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10826476 #10826485

• “Quite possible, on the contrary,” returned Mr. Fogg.

  --Très possible, au contraire, répondit Mr. Fogg.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 142

• The Union should be quite explicit.

  L'Union doit être très claire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1863021

• Nevertheless, it was found that their profit margin, on average, was quite low.

  Néanmoins, il est apparu que leur marge bénéficiaire était, en moyenne, très faible.

  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 1228657

• Child marriages even among the Muslim community are quite rare.

  Les mariages d ' enfants, même chez les Musulmans, sont très rares.

  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 10353538

assez

Used about 3 302 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 157 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 752 · legal and administrative ≈ 90 · UN documents ≈ 2 299).

• That's quite simple.

  C'est assez simple.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and franlexcois · checked, community translation · #4013297 #4958983

• The mirror is quite large.

  Une glace assez grande.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30950

• But it is quite clear that once a vote is declared in this House you cannot at a subsequent date go back on that vote.

  Mais il est assez évident que, une fois qu'un vote est annoncé dans ce Parlement, vous ne pouvez pas revenir sur ce vote à une date ultérieure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1883205

• The circumstances of the two cases are quite different.

  Les circonstances des deux affaires sont assez différentes.

  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 531560

• It was true that minors were detained with adults outside the capital, but the length of detention was quite short.

  Il est vrai qu ' en dehors de la capitale les mineurs sont détenus avec les adultes, mais leur temps de détention est assez bref.

  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 4961499

More sentences

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

• This is quite a place.

  C'est un sacré endroit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3410965 #7448534

• Tom found the book Mary had given him quite boring.

  Tom a trouvé le livre que Mary lui avait donné plutôt ennuyeux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1028899 #5579318

• I feel quite weird.

  Je me sens vraiment bizarre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and felix63 · checked, community translation · #11956342 #8835273

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