small — English to French

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

What it means: small in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: small (187 872), smalls (14). By style: everyday 809 · literary 57 · biblical 84 · parliamentary 16 875 · legal and administrative 14 040 · UN documents 156 021.

petit

Used about 102 706 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 708 · literary ≈ 46 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 14 414 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 993 · UN documents ≈ 75 494). Forms: petit, petite, petites, petits.

• It's a small dog.

  C'est un petit chien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · #9467574 #503355

• It is very small and very ugly.”

  C'est très laid et très petit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2409

• I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

  Je suis petit et méprisé; Je n’oublie point tes ordonnances.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:141

• Once again, small producers will be the ones who suffer.

  Encore une fois, ce seront les petits producteurs qui en pâtiront.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1487029

• BERRIES AND SMALL FRUIT

  BAIES ET PETITS FRUITS

  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 887083

entreprises

Used about 352 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 352).

• Naturally, undertakings pay a price, and not a small one.

  Naturellement, les entreprises paient un prix, et non des moindres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889684

More sentences

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

• The child picked up a small stone.

  L'enfant a ramassé un caillou.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #47384 #4627704

• The duodenum is a section of the small intestine.

  Le duodénum est un segment de l'intestin grêle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lepotdeterre and sbamsbamsbam · checked, community translation · #4091048 #4093549

• I had a small dinner party last weekend.

  J'ai organisé un dîner, le week-end dernier.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2331629 #2429265

Grammar

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