rather — English to French

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

What it means: rather in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: rather (89 013). By style: everyday 476 · literary 60 · biblical 49 · parliamentary 17 669 · legal and administrative 4 871 · UN documents 65 888.

plutôt

Used about 38 204 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 218 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 5 522 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 233 · UN documents ≈ 30 199).

• It was rather funny.

  Ce fut plutôt amusant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1983991 #1984900

• Rather than borrow, he went without food.

  Plutôt que d'emprunter il ne mangeait pas.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14823

• Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  allez plutôt vers les brebis perdues de la maison d’Israël.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:6

• Rather, as parliamentarians, that responsibility is our calling.

  En tant que députés, cette responsabilité est plutôt notre vocation.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1289209

• An average rather than a marginal market position is used.

  Une position moyenne plutôt qu'une position marginale sur le marché est utilisée.

  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 4571961

non

Used about 10 054 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 104 · legal and administrative ≈ 710 · UN documents ≈ 8 236).

• It was evident that Marius had his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it as his own,—preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean.

  Il était évident que Marius avait des doutes sur l'origine de ces six cent mille francs, qu'il craignait quelque source non pure, qui sait? qu'il avait même peut-être découvert que cet argent venait de lui Jean Valjean, qu'il hésitait devant cette fortune suspecte, et répugnait à la prendre comme sienne, aimant mieux rester pauvres, lui et Cosette, que d'être riches d'une richesse trouble.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31158

• Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

  Pensez-vous que je sois venu apporter la paix sur la terre? Non, vous dis-je, mais la division.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 12:51

• It is a question of working with, rather than against, each other.

  Il s'agit de travailler l'un avec l'autre, et non l'un contre l'autre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 903896

• The Commission notes that the measures in question supported professional football activities rather than amateur sport.

  La Commission fait observer que les mesures en question ont soutenu les activités footballistiques professionnelles et non le sport amateur.

  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 4152777

• Overtime payments to civilian personnel (posted in offices, rather than in the field) (SAR 20,832,323).

  d) Paiement d ' heures supplémentaires au personnel civil (en poste dans des bureaux, et non sur le terrain) (SAR 20 832 323).

  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 9687987

mais

Used about 7 202 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 1 472 · legal and administrative ≈ 203 · UN documents ≈ 5 491).

• Venus is not a star, but rather a planet.

  Vénus n'est pas une étoile, mais une planète.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13856248 #13856249

• Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear the LORD all day long.

  Que ton cœur n’envie point les pécheurs, Mais qu’il ait toujours la crainte de l’Éternel;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 23:17

• The issue was not, therefore, whether China should join the WTO, but rather when.

  La question n'était donc pas de savoir si la Chine devait rejoindre l'OMC, mais bien quand elle devait le faire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 251801

• The precise routes to be operated were not chosen by RAS but rather left at the discretion of the operator.

  Le choix des lignes pour la prestation des services de liaison n'a pas été imposé par la RAS, mais laissé à la discrétion de l'opérateur.

  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 4491713

• Universal jurisdiction does not apply to all international crimes, but rather to a very limited category of offences.

  La compétence universelle ne s ' applique pas à tous les crimes internationaux mais à un nombre limité d ' infractions.

  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 19706262

peu

Used about 2 869 times in the texts (literary ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 1 472 · UN documents ≈ 1 373).

• I thought him rather ungrateful.

  Je trouvai la réponse un peu ingrate.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2604

• There is something rather tragic in this attitude.

  Il y a quelque chose d'un peu tragique dans cette attitude.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1628729

• Mr. MINE (Japan): Mr. President, with your permission, I would like to make a few remarks rather belatedly on security assurances.

  M. MINE (Japon) (traduit de l ' anglais): Monsieur le Président, si vous m ' y autorisez, je souhaiterais formuler un peu tardivement quelques observations sur les garanties de sécurité.

  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 15098241

• “Rather!” grinned the ventriloquist.

  --Un peu! fit le ventriloque en ricanant.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22077

• No doubt they had reckoned on a rather more favourable assessment.

  Il ne fait aucun doute que le pays avait tablé sur une évaluation un tant soit peu plus favorable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 516324

More sentences

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

• That seems to me a rather pathetic aspiration.

  Cela me semble une aspiration assez pathétique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #8657121 #8976716

• I don't usually eat breakfast because I'd rather sleep as late as I can.

  En général, je ne prends pas de petit déjeuner parce que je préfère dormir aussi longtemps que possible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and tras · checked, community translation · #7544676 #7562370

• Wouldn't you rather sit by the window?

  Préféreriez-vous être assis près de la fenêtre ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and milamber · checked, community translation · #274244 #631883

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