television — English to French

How English television is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: television in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: television (29 069), televisions (648). By style: everyday 291 · parliamentary 2 400 · legal and administrative 3 639 · UN documents 23 387.

télévision

Used about 17 985 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 239 · parliamentary ≈ 1 652 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 478 · UN documents ≈ 14 617). Forms: télévision, télévisions.

• I'm watching television.

  Je regarde la télévision.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and michelnialon · checked, community translation · #3498173 #4274115

• I too had the doubtful pleasure of appearing on television.

  J'ai aussi eu le plaisir discutable de passer à la télévision.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1757719

• Black and white or other monochrome television receivers (excluding video monitors)

  Télévisions en noir et blanc ou en autres monochromes

  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 949454

• V. Radio and television

  V. Radio et télévision

  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 5878300

• I am watching television.

  Je regarde la télévision.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and michelnialon · checked, community translation · #4384881 #4274115

téléviseurs

Used about 3 645 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 310 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 137 · UN documents ≈ 2 193).

• Televisions use more electricity than you might think.

  Les téléviseurs consomment plus d'électricité qu'on ne le pense.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · #10639801 #11385203

• In some places thousands of televisions or digiboxes may have to be replaced.

  Dans certains endroits, il faudra peut-être remplacer des milliers de téléviseurs ou de boîtiers numériques.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 737033

• Power management for networked televisions

  Gestion de la consommation d’électricité pour des téléviseurs de réseau

  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 2982024

• Confiscated the equipment including 20 televisions and 18 CD/Cassettes players

  Confiscation de 20 téléviseurs et de 18 lecteurs de CD/cassettes;

  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 20767471

• This applies not only to cars and televisions, but also to bread, vegetables, meat and milk.

  Cela vaut non seulement pour les voitures et les téléviseurs, mais aussi pour le pain, les légumes, la viande, et le lait.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1405547

radio

Used about 974 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 974).

• Needless to say, television and radio stations, with a few exceptions like community radios, belong to big economic groups.

  Needless to say, television and radio stations, with a few exceptions like community radios, belong to big economic groups.

  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 12236700

• * Televisions, video recorders, radios, fumigating machines, flak jackets, identity card laminators and photograph machines, medical equipment, etc.

  * Téléviseurs, magnétoscopes, postes de radio, fumigateurs, gilets pare-éclats, machines à plastifier les cartes d ' identification, appareils photo, matériel médical, etc.

  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 1405513

• 392. According to official statistics of the Republic Broadcasting Agency, five televisions have been issued licenses for broadcasting their programs at the national level.

  392. D ' après les statistiques officielles de l ' Agence de radio et télédiffusion, cinq télévisions ont obtenu des licences de diffusion au niveau national.

  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 20474452

• During the interview, aired on state-run Gambia Radio and Television Service on 8 June, the President was reportedly questioned about the unsolved murder of Point Editor Deyda Hydara in 2004.

  During the interview, aired on state-run Gambia Radio and Television Service on 8 June, the President was reportedly questioned about the unsolved murder of Point Editor Deyda Hydara in 2004.

  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 22109219

appareils

Used about 525 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 38 · UN documents ≈ 487).

• Colour televisions with a video recorder or player

  Appareils incorporant un appareil d'enregistrement, de reproduction vidéophonique, couleurs

  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 949446

• Schools formerly without electricity now have solar panels to supply current to computers, televisions and VCRs.

  Les écoles non électrifiées disposent de panneaux solaires qui permettent le fonctionnement de ces appareils.

  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 13850713

• Prepare a detailed inventory of selected types of electrical and electronic equipment (personal computers, televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, mobile phones and waste batteries) generated

  Préparer un inventaire détaillé des différents types d ' équipements électriques et électroniques produits (ordinateurs personnels, appareils TV, réfrigérateurs, climatiseurs, machines à laver, téléphones portables et batteries usées).

  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 19661480

chaînes

Used about 64 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 26 · legal and administrative ≈ 38).

• a) viewers need to be protected from the flood of advertisements by strengthening the binding arrangements in the directive and controlling and punishing televisions stations which infringe them;

  a) la protection des spectateurs contre l' envahissement des publicités, grâce au renforcement du caractère contraignant des dispositions de la directive, assorti d' un contrôle et de peines à l' encontre des chaînes qui les enfreignent ;

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 243541

• Even leaving aside terrestrial transmission, cable and satellite offer a large number of free-to-air television channels and are generally available.

  Même sans la transmission hertzienne, le câble et le satellite offrent déjà une large gamme de chaînes télévisées gratuites et ils sont largement disponibles.

  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 1394373

More sentences

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

• Nothing's on television.

  Il n'y a rien à la téloche.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #7814247 #3231811

• Could you lower the volume of the television?

  Est-ce que tu pourrais baisser le volume de la télé ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4943602 #8552902

• The television set isn't working.

  Le téléviseur ne marche pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #8981867 #504234

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