several — English to French

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

What it means: several in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: several (204 955). By style: everyday 383 · literary 46 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 10 293 · legal and administrative 13 315 · UN documents 180 915.

plusieurs

Used about 163 330 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 327 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 291 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 483 · UN documents ≈ 143 224).

• This word has several meanings.

  Ce mot a plusieurs sens.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aghanim · checked, community translation · #11307907 #11245683

• He saw several more come in, one after another, out of the impenetrable vapour.

  Il en vit venir encore plusieurs, sortant l'un après l'autre de l'ombre impénétrable.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1050

• When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

  Lorsque j’entendis ces choses, je m’assis, je pleurai, et je fus plusieurs jours dans la désolation. Je jeûnai et je priai devant le Dieu des cieux,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 1:4

• This is an historic vote for several reasons.

  Il s'agit d'un vote historique pour plusieurs raisons.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1454880

• Several alternatives are possible.

  Plusieurs méthodes sont possibles.

  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 2821986

ont

Used about 4 412 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 643 · UN documents ≈ 3 769).

• Then several countries have bilateral problems.

  Cela signifie que divers pays ont des problèmes bilatéraux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1830035

• 408. Several studies have been carried out in Angola in recent years on people ' s knowledge, attitudes and practices with regard to STDs and HIV/AIDS.

  408. Diverses études sur les connaissances, les attitudes et les pratiques relatives aux maladies sexuellement transmissibles et au VIH/sida ont été réalisées en Angola durant les dernières années.

  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 11944926

• These commitments were made on several occasions and must feature in the new proposals.

  Ces engagements ont été réitérés à diverses reprises et doivent apparaître dans les nouvelles propositions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1557842

• In addition, they have already been through a first trial, as several colleagues have already pointed out.

  Ils ont en outre déjà subi un premier procès, comme l'ont déjà souligné certains collègues.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 351734

More sentences

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

• Several years went by.

  De nombreuses années se sont écoulées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by voxbubnya and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #271062 #7115699

• We have discussed the problem several times but to no avail.

  Nous avons débattu de ce problème à de nombreuses reprises mais en vain.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Goofy · checked, community translation · #23166 #502951

• The plane has hit several air pockets.

  L'avion a heurté de nombreuses poches d'air.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Bafy78 · checked, community translation · #2890296 #8376159

Grammar

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