sixth — English to French

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

What it means: sixth in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sixth (92 792), sixths (25). By style: everyday 12 · literary 6 · biblical 42 · parliamentary 1 057 · legal and administrative 2 168 · UN documents 89 532.

sixième

Used about 77 419 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 903 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 080 · UN documents ≈ 74 380). Forms: sixième, sixièmes.

• What's your sixth sense?

  Quel est ton sixième sens ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #4360036 #4359828

• I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion.

  J'ai distingué les shakos du cinquième de ligne et les guidons de la sixième légion.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25564

• Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh;

  Otsem le sixième, David le septième.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 2:15

• The Sixth Commandment is infrastructure.

  Le sixième commandement concerne les infrastructures.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 881692

• None, from the sixth year onwards

  Néant, à partir de la sixième année.

  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 234926

More sentences

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

• Today is October twenty-sixth.

  Nous sommes aujourd’hui le vingt-six octobre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #12129091 #12129104

• The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory.

  Ce n'est cependant pas un jour dont l'histoire ait gardé souvenir que le 6 janvier 1482.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 27

• What put the “whole population of Paris in commotion,” as Jehan de Troyes expresses it, on the sixth of January, was the double solemnity, united from time immemorial, of the Epiphany and the Feast of Fools.

  Le 6 janvier, ce qui mettoit en émotion tout le populaire de Paris, comme dit Jehan de Troyes, c'était la double solennité, réunie depuis un temps immémorial, du jour des Rois et de la Fête des Fous.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 32

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