things — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: things (36 931). By style: everyday 1 737 · literary 81 · biblical 953 · parliamentary 16 003 · legal and administrative 720 · UN documents 17 437.

choses

Used about 12 059 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 411 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 437 · parliamentary ≈ 5 001 · legal and administrative ≈ 75 · UN documents ≈ 5 086).

• Things will get nasty.

  Les choses vont se gâter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #4498871 #11228286

• Things of this nature were said:—

  Il se disait des choses comme ceci:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23270

• The LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad.

  L’Éternel a fait pour nous de grandes choses; Nous sommes dans la joie.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 126:3

• And things are moving.

  Et d'ailleurs les choses bougent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1120459

• I use the language in relation to familiar things and situations.

  Je peux m'exprimer sur des choses et des situations familières.

  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 2148166

More sentences

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

• If you go to that supermarket, you can buy most things you use in your daily life.

  Si vous allez dans ce supermarché, vous pourrez acheter la plupart des objets que vous utilisez dans votre vie quotidienne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Amastan · checked, community translation · #68682 #1893540

• Ants can lift things that are more than 50 times their own weight.

  Les fourmis peuvent soulever des objets qui pèsent plus de cinquante fois leur propre poids.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tabidots and Lulantis · checked, community translation · #3472489 #3472555

• I know I've said some pretty stupid things today.

  Je sais que j'ai dit des trucs assez idiots, aujourd'hui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3729586 #4185073

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