short — English to French

How English short is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: short in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: short (79 010), shorts (549). By style: everyday 464 · literary 43 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 9 245 · legal and administrative 11 248 · UN documents 58 546.

shorts

Used about 22 329 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 840 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 624 · UN documents ≈ 15 856).

• I wear shorts all the time.

  Je porte des shorts tout le temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5258621 #6473153

• It is no business of the EU to tell workers that they cannot go bare-chested or wear shorts.

  Ce n’est pas à l’Union européenne de dire aux travailleurs s’ils peuvent ou non se promener torse nu ou porter des shorts.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 774808

• Trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts

  Pantalons, salopettes à bretelles, culottes et shorts

  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 199624

• MEN ' S PANTS AND SHORTS

  MEN ' S PANTS AND SHORTS

  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 10455807

• It is no business of the EU to tell workers that they cannot be bare-chested or wear shorts. They are adults.

  Il n’appartient pas à l’UE de dire aux travailleurs qu’ils ne peuvent pas travailler torse nu ou en shorts, ce sont des adultes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 708317

court

Used about 18 964 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 163 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 2 858 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 335 · UN documents ≈ 11 587). Forms: court, courte.

• That dog has a short tail.

  Le chien a une queue courte.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #68422 #6402477

• All at once, he stopped short.

  Soudain il s'arrêta court.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25252

• that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

  Le triomphe des méchants a été court, Et la joie de l’impie momentanée?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 20:5

• It is very short.

  Il est très court.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152426

• Type of short-range device

  Type de dispositif à courte portée

  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 1379884

hommes

Used about 168 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 168).

• Firstly that we, unlike Mrs Schröder, are very much interested in 22 men running in shorts after a ball.

  En premier lieu que, contrairement à Mme Ilka Schröder, nous portons un réel intérêt aux 22 hommes en short courant après une balle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 308125

terme

Used about 168 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 168).

• It might make you unpopular in the short-run but I think it would make you loved and admired in the long-run.

  Il se peut que la mesure vous rende impopulaire dans un premier temps, mais je pense qu'à long terme, elle vous vaudra toute notre admiration.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 28254

culottes

Used about 8 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8).

• This kid is wearing shorts.

  Cet enfant porte des culottes courtes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #1802650 #1692667

More sentences

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

• The days are short in winter.

  Les jours sont courts en hiver.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · #11628732 #11630848

• Shall we have a short break?

  Et si on se reposait un peu ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and gabrielle · checked, community translation · #10676044 #7809855

• He took a short cut.

  Il prit un raccourci.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #295437 #131864

Grammar

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