sometimes — English to French

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

What it means: sometimes in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sometimes (30 030). By style: everyday 555 · literary 57 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 5 270 · legal and administrative 779 · UN documents 23 367.

parfois

Used about 24 022 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 439 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 4 392 · legal and administrative ≈ 682 · UN documents ≈ 18 499).

• Life is strange sometimes.

  La vie est parfois bizarre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #2544632 #7074462

• Insurrection is sometimes resurrection.

  Parfois, insurrection, c'est résurrection.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22900

• Sometimes they do fall into traps.

  Parfois, ils tombent dans les pièges.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 335560

• Patches of fat sometimes visible

  Amas graisseux parfois apparents.

  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 1473618

• Sometimes they were forced to help the robbers.

  Ils ont parfois été contraints d ' aider les pillards.

  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 536803

quelquefois

Used about 543 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 33 · UN documents ≈ 487).

• Do you sometimes go abroad on your holidays?

  Vas-tu quelquefois en vacances à l'étranger ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Petro1 · checked, community translation · #19819 #9291

• They sometimes admire him.

  On l'admire quelquefois.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12735

• 59. In reforming laws with regard to trafficking sometimes States adopt measures that violate the human rights of the potential victims they wish to protect.

  59. En réformant les lois relatives à la traite, les États adoptent quelquefois des mesures qui violent les droits individuels des victimes potentielles qu ' ils souhaitent protéger.

  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 10715224

• We sometimes say: "Common sense is quite uncommon."

  On dit quelquefois : « Le sens commun est fort rare. »

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #407001 #407000

• The depth is sometimes very great.

  Profondeur quelquefois très grande.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27912

More sentences

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

• Sometimes I have premonitory dreams.

  Il m’arrive de faire des rêves prémonitoires.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Theocracy and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #5875299 #5403753

• Sometimes it's better to remain silent.

  Des fois, il vaut mieux rester silencieux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4296868 #5920257

• She does that sometimes.

  Ça lui arrive de faire ça.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #6854059 #12419067

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