some — English to French

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

What it means: some in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: some (513 823), somes (11). By style: everyday 3 752 · literary 314 · biblical 314 · parliamentary 56 932 · legal and administrative 19 539 · UN documents 432 983.

certains

Used about 216 226 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 313 · parliamentary ≈ 20 094 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 754 · UN documents ≈ 181 066). Forms: certaines, certains.

• Some things never change.

  Certaines choses ne changent jamais.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4496432 #8364815

• Some succeeded in escaping to neighbouring Nepal.

  Certains d'entre eux sont parvenus à s'enfuir au Népal voisin.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 874223

• Some assets were excluded from the scope of the sale.

  Certains actifs ont été exclus du périmètre de cette vente.

  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 3116586

• Were some orphans not too young to be thus employed?

  Certains orphelins ne sont—ils pas trop jeunes pour être employés ainsi ?

  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 2895741

• Some of the birds didn't fly.

  Certains des oiseaux ne volèrent point.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #24670 #845532

quelques

Used about 87 785 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 547 · literary ≈ 164 · biblical ≈ 137 · parliamentary ≈ 7 814 · legal and administrative ≈ 399 · UN documents ≈ 78 724). Forms: quelque, quelques.

• I'm making some changes.

  J'effectue quelques changements.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #2545968 #5182568

• Thus it went on for some time.

  Cela continua ainsi quelque temps.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26365

• Some stood up and gave false testimony against him, saying,

  Quelques-uns se levèrent, et portèrent un faux témoignage contre lui, disant:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 14:57

• Let me turn now to some final remarks on external relations.

  Je voudrais maintenant aborder quelques remarques finales concernant les relations extérieures.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 622059

• This higher boiling fraction consists predominantly of C5-C7 aromatic hydrocarbons with some unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having a carbon number predominantly of C5.

  Se compose principalement d'hydrocarbures aromatiques en C5-7, avec quelques hydrocarbures aliphatiques insaturés majoritairement en C5 et possède un point d'ébullition relativement élevé.

  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 1084801

j

Used about 9 875 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 860 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 1 116 · UN documents ≈ 7 872).

• I need some help.

  J'ai besoin d'aide.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and carl · checked, community translation · #2387521 #1060521

• “For some one you never knew, and of whom I was too fond.”

  --Oh! quelqu'un que tu n'as pas connu, et que j'aimais trop.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1388

• “Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

  Venez, mangez de mon pain, Et buvez du vin que j’ai mêlé;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 9:5

• I have some experience on this as regards the candidate countries, where it is linked to our rigorous conditionality.

  J’ai une certaine expérience à cet égard dans le cas des pays candidats, où ce dialogue est lié à notre stricte conditionnalité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 824474

• J. Kammerhofer, " Uncertainty in the formal sources of international law: customary international law and some of its problems " , EJIL, vol. 15, 2004, pp. 523 - 553.

  J. Kammerhofer, < < Uncertainty in the formal sources of international law: customary international law and some of its problems > > , EJIL, vol. 15, 2004, pp. 523-553.

  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 23504365

More sentences

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

• There are some people who hate the idea of the European Community.

  Il y a des gens qui haïssent l’idée de la Communauté européenne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #3259040 #3259039

• You're the only person I know who doesn't take some kind of medicine at least once a week.

  Tu es la seule personne que je connaisse qui ne prend pas un médicament ou un autre au moins une fois par semaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #954856 #959347

• I'd like Tom to spend some time with our children.

  Je voudrais que Tom passe un peu de temps avec nos enfants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and guyniv · checked, community translation · #2033931 #5555138

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