sixty — English to French

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

What it means: sixty in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sixties (97), sixty (85 859). By style: everyday 63 · literary 16 · biblical 67 · parliamentary 256 · legal and administrative 126 · UN documents 85 428.

soixante

Used about 36 001 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 57 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 67 · parliamentary ≈ 159 · legal and administrative ≈ 108 · UN documents ≈ 35 595).

• He is sixty years old.

  Il a soixante ans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and theachaean · checked, community translation · #8910532 #8031033

• “Three hundred sixty-seven livres, eight sols, three deniers parisis.

  --Trois cent soixante-sept livres huit sols trois deniers parisis.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7476

• sixty-one thousand donkeys,

  soixante et un mille ânes,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 31:34

• Where is the other sixty-odd percent?

  Qu'en est-il des soixante pour cent restants?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494974

• Sixty per cent of appropriations are devoted to the EFF.

  Soixante pour cent des crédits sont affectés au FEP.

  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 1653028

années

Used about 28 515 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 39 · UN documents ≈ 28 476).

• Our relations with India go back to the sixties.

  Nos relations avec l’Inde remontent aux années 1960.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 617357

• Worldwide production peaked in the sixties.

  La production mondiale a culminé dans les années 60.

  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 9223740

• Surely Taiwan is not the PLO from the sixties and the seventies.

  Taïwan n'est tout de même pas l'OLP des années 1960 et 1970.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 313734

• In the sixties, foreign commerce in Cuba was centralized in 20 companies.

  Dans les années 60, le commerce extérieur à Cuba était centralisé dans 20 sociétés.

  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 1660763

• It was 40 years in the future and so she was in her sixties.

  Quarante années étaient passées et elle avait donc une soixantaine d'années.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 392893

ans

Used about 2 686 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 16 · UN documents ≈ 2 670).

• Sixty years ago, we lived through one of the worst wars in the history of mankind.

  Voici 60 ans, nous avons vécu l'une des guerres les plus cruelles de l'histoire de l'humanité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 92207

• Those separated when they were children met each other in their fifties or sixties.

  Des parents qui avaient été séparés alors qu ' ils étaient enfants se sont retrouvés à l ' âge de 50 ou de 60 ans.

  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 10498778

• In this respect, I think it is essential to re-evaluate social policy in favour of the over-sixties.

  À cet égard, je pense qu'il est essentiel de réévaluer la politique sociale en faveur des plus de 60 ans.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1432415

• A recent survey of more than 66,600 surviving separated family members showed that 43.8 per cent of them were aged 80 years or over, 37.3 per cent were in their seventies and 13.6 per cent were in their sixties.

  Une enquête récente menée auprès de plus de 66 600 membres survivants de familles séparées a montré que 43,8 % d ' entre eux étaient âgés de 80 ans et plus, 37,3 % étaient des septuagénaires et 13,6 % avaient la soixantaine.

  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 25803138

• Sixty years ago, Albanian Muslims were still in the minority in this province, which is the historic heart of Serbia.

  Il y a 60 ans, les Albanais musulmans n’étaient qu’une minorité dans cette province qui constitue le cœur historique de la Serbie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 578601

session

Used about 2 676 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 6 · UN documents ≈ 2 670).

• The sixty-first session of the Commission on Human Rights comes in a context that is different in a number of respects.

  La 61e session de la Commission des droits de l’homme intervient dans un contexte différent à plusieurs égards.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 649283

• On 6 March 2006, at its sixty-eighth session, Mr. Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos was appointed Rapporteur for follow-up to opinions.

  Le 6 mars 2006, à la soixantehuitième session, M. LinosAlexandre Sicilianos a été désigné Rapporteur chargé du suivi des opinions.

  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 18046398

• At its March meeting, the Council will formally define the EU’s priorities for the sixty-first session of the Commission on Human Rights.

  Lors de sa réunion du mois de mars, le Conseil définira formellement les priorités de l’Union pour la 61e session de la CDH.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 649301

• In accordance with established practice, the Committee will adopt the report of its sixty-third session on the basis of the draft prepared by the secretariat.

  Conformément à l ' usage, le Comité adoptera le rapport de sa soixantetroisième session, en se fondant sur le projet établi par le secrétariat.

  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 7539577

• The Group urged all Member States to carry that understanding into the intergovernmental negotiations that would be launched at the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly.

  Le Groupe exhorte tous les États Membres à relayer ce message lors des négociations intergouvernementales qui s ' ouvriront à la soixanteneuvième session de l ' Assemblée générale.

  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 29971085

More sentences

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

• That's the sixty-four thousand dollar question.

  C'est la question à mille francs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tamy and Tamy · checked, community translation · #1797705 #1797700

• Why did my sixty-year-old landlord buy a trampoline?

  Pourquoi est-ce que mon propriétaire sexagénaire a acheté un trampoline ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and qdii · checked, community translation · #487187 #487189

• Sixty-four-bit software will not run on 32-bit architecture.

  Un programme 64 bits ne fonctionnera pas sur une architecture 32 bits.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · #1006359 #1006358

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