thousands — English to French

How English thousands is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: thousands (27 308). By style: everyday 82 · literary 5 · biblical 50 · parliamentary 4 032 · legal and administrative 505 · UN documents 22 634.

milliers

Used about 24 824 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 34 · parliamentary ≈ 3 948 · legal and administrative ≈ 484 · UN documents ≈ 20 276).

• Thousands died in Japan.

  Des milliers de personnes ont péri au Japon.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by panamicua and gege_veggie · checked, community translation · #3608070 #5137141

• Still, it was evident that the air, under a pressure which might reach that of thousands of atmospheres, would at last reach the solid state, and then, even if our bodies could resist the strain, we should be stopped, and no reasonings would be able to get us on any farther.

  Il était évident, cependant, que l'air, sous une pression qui pouvait atteindre des milliers d'atmosphères, finirait par passer à l'état solide, et alors, en admettant que nos corps eussent résisté, il faudrait s'arrêter, en dépit de tous les raisonnements du monde.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2194

• David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

  David tint conseil avec les chefs de milliers et de centaines, avec tous les princes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 13:1

• Thousands still languish in camps.

  Des milliers de personnes dépérissent encore dans des camps.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1780674

• (in thousands of EUR)

  (en milliers d'EUR)

  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 3800123

dollars

Used about 472 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 472).

• (In thousands of United States dollars)

  Sources (millions de dollars É.-U.)

  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 7974148

More sentences

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

• Do you think desiccated coconut will do for the topping instead of hundreds and thousands?

  Est-ce que tu penses que la noix de coco séchée fera l'affaire comme garniture à la place des vermicelles en sucre ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #9977566 #13217210

• Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of socks, and as essential to thousands of British school children as a pencil and eraser.

  Les calculettes de poche coûtent autant qu'une paire de chaussettes et sont aussi essentielles qu'un crayon et une gomme pour les écoliers britanniques.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Scott · checked, community translation · #33466 #13331

• The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

  Les femmes qui chantaient se répondaient les unes aux autres, et disaient: Saül a frappé ses mille, Et David ses dix mille.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 18:7

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