Elamur Translatesound — English to French
How English sound is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.
What it means: sound in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: sound (54 788), sounds (1 079). By style: everyday 730 · literary 57 · biblical 105 · parliamentary 4 233 · legal and administrative 8 357 · UN documents 42 385.
sons
Used about 9 489 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 44 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 786 · UN documents ≈ 6 623).
All sound is vibration.
Tous les sons sont des vibrations.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · #10823231 #12495228The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few inarticulate sounds.
La soeur voulut parler, mais elle put à peine balbutier quelques sons inarticulés.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6630Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
Le dixième jour du septième mois, tu feras retentir les sons éclatants de la trompette; le jour des expiations, vous sonnerez de la trompette dans tout votre pays.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 25:9It socialises the child, develops his or her mother tongue and accustoms him or her to the sounds of a foreign language.
Il socialise l'enfant, développe sa langue maternelle et l'habitue aux sons d'une langue étrangère.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1561896No of driver selectable sounds (1/2/3/愦灭※)
Nombre de sons pouvant être choisis par le conducteur (1/2/3/愦灭※)
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 5564499
semble
Used about 2 852 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 160 · parliamentary ≈ 485 · UN documents ≈ 2 208).
It sounds a bit goofy.
Ça semble un peu niais.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3642275 #3642277It sounds very easy and neat.
Cela semble en effet très facile et astucieux.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1558814On the surface, this sounds fair and appropriate.
En apparence, cela semble juste et approprié.
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 6567852His story sounds strange.
Son récit semble étrange.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #287879 #1015167To me it sounds as though the urgency and the ambition that were initially there have evaporated.
Il me semble que l’urgence et l’ambition du début se sont évaporées.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 669859
bruit
Used about 1 899 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 99 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 1 766).
I hate that sound.
Je déteste ce bruit.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3732634 #8013836Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased.
Jean Valjean s'étant arrêté, le bruit avait cessé.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27706Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
Et Élie dit à Achab: Monte, mange et bois; car il se fait un bruit qui annonce la pluie.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 18:41[ADDITIONAL SOUND EMISSION PROVISIONS
[PRESCRIPTIONS SUPPLÉMENTAIRES CONCERNANT LE BRUIT ÉMIS
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 11264288Don't make a sound.
Ne fais pas un bruit !
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1844225 #1846246
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
You don't sound convinced.
Vous ne semblez pas convaincu.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2274014 #4583738Light travels faster than sound.
La lumière se déplace plus vite que le son.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #240394 #8672You sound like my father.
On dirait mon père.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6831331 #12954160
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