size — English to French

How English size is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: size in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: size (50 572), sizes (3 715). By style: everyday 152 · literary 9 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 2 219 · legal and administrative 15 125 · UN documents 36 778.

taille

Used about 21 621 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 121 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 294 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 562 · UN documents ≈ 12 642). Forms: taille, tailles.

• It's not my size.

  Ce n'est pas ma taille.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10064133 #10068633

• She usually took a complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the smallest to the largest.

  Elle en prenait ordinairement une gamme complète, c'est-à-dire sept, de dix ans à seize inclusivement, voix et tailles assorties, qu'elle faisait chanter debout, alignées côte à côte par rang d'âge de la plus petite à la plus grande.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10735

• Naturally, size also matters.

  Naturellement, la taille intervient également.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 801734

• Size, shape and surface

  Taille, forme et surface

  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 4801914

• PERMITTED OR PROHIBITED (AGES/SIZES)

  PAR DES ENFANTS (AGE/TAILLE)

  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 4333373

dimensions

Used about 10 304 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 116 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 521 · UN documents ≈ 7 662). Forms: dimension, dimensions.

• The State of Texas is almost the same size as France.

  L'État du Texas a à peu près les mêmes dimensions que la France.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3260492 #3260491

• They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus.

  Ils étaient faciles à reconnaître; c'étaient les humbles arbustes de la terre, avec des dimensions phénoménales, des lycopodes hauts de cent pieds, des sigillaires géantes, des fougères arborescentes, grandes comme les sapins des hautes latitudes, des lepidodendrons à tiges cylindriques bifurquées, terminées par de longues feuilles et hérissées de poils rudes comme de monstrueuses plantes grasses.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2622

• Where standard sizes have already been introduced, it will be enough to go on indicating prices for these units.

  Pour les dimensions soumises à des normes, l'indication des prix à l'unité doit toujours suffire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1596200

• Range of tyre sizes:

  Pneumatiques: plage des dimensions:

  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 5442556

• Wheel size/tyre dimensions.

  Dimension de la roue/du pneumatique

  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 12296815

différentes

Used about 947 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 23 · legal and administrative ≈ 158 · UN documents ≈ 766).

• What is needed is a range of strict legal requirements for fuel consumption for the different sizes of car engines; in other words, a proposal for a directive.

  Ce dont nous avons besoin, c'est une série de normes légales rigoureuses pour la consommation de carburant des différentes catégories de véhicules. Une proposition de directive donc.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1872204

• different engine sizes are allowed;

  des cylindrées différentes pour le moteur sont autorisées;

  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 5441811

• The completeness statistic is divided into different size classes, for example, by employees or turnover.

  Les statistiques de complétude sont ventilées en différentes classes, par exemple par nombre d ' employés ou chiffre d ' affaires.

  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 10458588

• Also other container types and sizes are in circulation, and their widths and heights and construction strengths differ.

  En outre, des conteneurs présentant des caractéristiques techniques différentes (largeur, hauteur, résistance, etc.) sont en circulation.

  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 11237185

More sentences

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

• What size shoes do you wear?

  Quelle pointure faites-vous ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #18112 #1557965

• Australia is smaller in size than South America.

  L'Australie est plus petite que l'Amérique du Sud.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by odiernod and Apex · checked, community translation · #955832 #10804

• What do you think Tom's shoe size is?

  Quel est la pointure de Tom à ton avis?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Wittydev · checked, community translation · #1140811 #1146976

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