surface — English to French

How English surface is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: surface in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: surface (37 915), surfaces (5 231). By style: everyday 61 · literary 30 · biblical 58 · parliamentary 552 · legal and administrative 13 839 · UN documents 28 606.

surface

Used about 31 868 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 248 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 668 · UN documents ≈ 20 859). Forms: surface, surfaces.

• This table's surface is smooth.

  La surface de cette table est lisse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by keira_n and belgavox · checked, community translation · #1079144 #1642802

• The surface of this rabble was dingy, dirty, earthy.

  La surface de cette cohue était grise, sale et terreuse.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5645

• but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  Mais une vapeur s’éleva de la terre, et arrosa toute la surface du sol.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 2:6

• In Finland surface waters are very clean.

  En Finlande, les eaux de surface sont très propres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 11567

• , 愦灭;lt; 6 % of body surface

  degré, 愦灭;lt; 6 % de la surface corporelle

  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 5668282

More sentences

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

• The leaves of the water lily float on the surface of the water.

  Les feuilles de nénuphar flottent sur l'eau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Wakano · checked, community translation · #9990516 #2965238

• Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road surface.

  Les pneus s'usent à cause de la friction entre le caoutchouc et la route.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · #41116 #352513

• Scatter a little flour on the work surface.

  Dispersez un peu de farine sur le plan de travail.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · #7002772 #8850030

Grammar

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