than — English to French

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

What it means: than in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: than (611 374). By style: everyday 4 293 · literary 314 · biblical 397 · parliamentary 49 763 · legal and administrative 152 184 · UN documents 404 423.

plus

Used about 265 586 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 041 · literary ≈ 183 · biblical ≈ 256 · parliamentary ≈ 23 845 · legal and administrative ≈ 69 751 · UN documents ≈ 168 510).

• You're more than welcome.

  Tu es plus que bienvenu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · #2700676 #3222308

• No; no more than Louis XVI.

  Non; pas plus que Louis XVI.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24448

• But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

  Or, je vous le dis, il y a ici quelque chose de plus grand que le temple.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:6

• I have received more questions than I can accept.

  J'ai reçu plus de questions que je ne peux en accepter.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 942929

• Not more than 0,1 % v/v

  Pas plus de 0,1 % v/v

  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 2596995

moins

Used about 44 363 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 89 · literary ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 5 184 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 194 · UN documents ≈ 16 851).

• I just saw you talking to Tom less than five minutes ago.

  Je viens juste de vous voir parler avec Tom il y a moins de cinq minutes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #2373960 #2374638

• "One might be, with less reason than now."

  —On le serait à moins!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2855

• Might the American people be less humane than ourselves?

  Les citoyens américains seraient-ils moins humains que nous?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 513149

• at an elevation of less than 2500 meters above sea level; and

  À une altitude de moins de 2500 m au-dessus du niveau de la mer;

  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 5471579

• States parties that have reports more than five years overdue (as at 31 July 2002) or

  États parties ayant au moins cinq ans de retard (au 31 juillet 2002)

  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 8639882

mais

Used about 5 265 times in the texts (literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 073 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 171).

• “I have plenty of time,” said the inspector, “but no more than enough.

  --J'ai le temps, reprit l'inspecteur, mais je n'ai que le temps.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16912

• But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

  Mais, quand nous-mêmes, quand un ange du ciel annoncerait un autre Évangile que celui que nous vous avons prêché, qu’il soit anathème!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 1:8

• In our discussions, however, we have gone further - rightly - than analyzing 1994.

  Mais, dans notre discussion, nous sommes allés - justement - au-delà de l'analyse de 1994.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1626303

• Endless transmission belts of trapezoidal cross-section (V-belts), other than V-ribbed, of an outside circumference exceeding 180 cm but not exceeding 240 cm

  Courroies de transmission sans fin, de section trapézoïdale, autres que striées, d'une circonférence extérieure excédant 180 cm mais n'excédant pas 240 cm

  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 318519

• Although the speed could not be exactly estimated, the sledge could not be going at less than forty miles an hour.

  On ne pouvait l'estimer, mathématiquement, mais certainement la vitesse du traîneau ne devait pas être moindre de quarante milles à l'heure.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2745

More sentences

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

• Nothing acts as a better antidote for romance than young men and women doing geometry together at eight o'clock every morning.

  Rien ne fait l'effet de meilleur antidote à l'amour que de jeunes hommes et femmes faisant ensemble de la géométrie à huit heures chaque matin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1072510 #1072866

• There's no one better than you.

  Il n’y a personne de mieux que toi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ricardo14 and Ricardo14 · checked, community translation · #9086173 #9086178

• We should be better than this.

  Nous devrions être meilleurs que ceci.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and guyniv · checked, community translation · #5531778 #5531806

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