third — English to French

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

What it means: third in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: third (326 907), thirds (12 316). By style: everyday 162 · literary 38 · biblical 157 · parliamentary 18 389 · legal and administrative 74 030 · UN documents 246 447.

tiers

Used about 206 735 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 12 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 60 921 · UN documents ≈ 133 492).

• One third of the earth's surface is desert.

  Un tiers de la surface de la Terre est désert.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Whiskkebarr and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #19556 #1053548

• Your third estate is insipid, colorless, odorless, and shapeless.

  Votre tiers état est insipide, incolore, inodore et informe.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29267

• and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.

  et le tiers des créatures qui étaient dans la mer et qui avaient vie mourut, et le tiers des navires périt.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 8:9

• Why only a third?

  Pourquoi seulement un tiers ?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 310497

• Third country ISO code

  Pays tiers Code ISO

  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 4829009

troisième

Used about 97 243 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 111 · literary ≈ 32 · biblical ≈ 137 · parliamentary ≈ 4 789 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 025 · UN documents ≈ 82 149).

• Shift into third gear.

  Passe la troisième vitesse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8080217 #10476240

• He tapped a third time.

  Il frappa un troisième coup.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1409

• the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

  le troisième, à Harim; le quatrième, à Seorim;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 24:8

• My third point concerns the reform of the EU institutions.

  Troisième point: la réforme des institutions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2001261

• the following subparagraph shall be added after the third subparagraph of paragraph 3:

  l'alinéa suivant est ajouté après le paragraphe 3, troisième alinéa:

  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 3834907

deux

Used about 195 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 192).

• I got the third degree last night from my parents because I got home two hours late.

  Je me suis fait passer à la moulinette par mes parents hier soir parce que je suis rentré à la maison deux heures en retard.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1188652 #1188792

• About two thirds of accidents lead to an absence of more than three days at work and almost 14% of workers suffer more than one accident in a year.

  Environ deux accidents sur trois entraînent une absence de plus de trois jours, presque 14% des travailleurs subissent plus d’un accident du travail par an.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 651665

More sentences

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

• I met her by accident on Third Avenue.

  Je l'ai rencontrée par hasard sur la 3e avenue.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dominiko · checked, community translation · #252570 #7491

• Please go up to the third floor.

  Montez au 3e étage s'il vous plait.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Hoshikaze · checked, community translation · #38576 #4883590

• He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

  Et il dit au peuple: Soyez prêts dans trois jours; ne vous approchez d’aucune femme.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 19:15

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