three — English to French

How English three is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: three in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: three (321 784), threes (37). By style: everyday 1 985 · literary 196 · biblical 417 · parliamentary 20 165 · legal and administrative 31 002 · UN documents 268 056.

trois

Used about 250 394 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 947 · literary ≈ 192 · biblical ≈ 417 · parliamentary ≈ 19 024 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 773 · UN documents ≈ 201 042).

• Tom has three kids.

  Tom a trois enfants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · #3439739 #3712391

• Three hours pass away.

  Trois heures se passent.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3006

• For there are three who testify:

  Car il y en a trois qui rendent témoignage:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1JO 5:7

• These are my three questions.

  Telles sont mes trois questions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5609

• the Administrative Board shall meet at least three times a year.

  le conseil d'administration se réunit au moins trois fois par an.

  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 3356399

ans

Used about 31 743 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 31 743).

• Increasing childcare provision for under threes (statutory right to public childcare planned for 2013)

  Améliorer les services de garderie pour les enfants âgés de moins de 3 ans (le droit à des services de garde publics est prévu pour 2013).

  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 20797560

• 67. Ms. HERCZOG asked whether Wales had an early childhood development programme for under-threes.

  67. Mme HERCZOG demande s ' il existe au Pays de Galles un programme de développement de la petite enfance pour les enfants de moins de 3 ans.

  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 18872529

• Ensure that under-threes and undernourished pregnant women receive subsidized basic foodstuffs fortified with micronutrients.

  veiller à ce que les enfants de moins de 3 ans et les femmes enceintes dénutries reçoivent des aliments de base fortifiés avec des oligo-éléments, subventionnés par l ' Etat.

  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 22488436

• In the under-threes age group 14.700 additional places would be needed, and in the age band of three-to-six-year-olds there is a demand for 6.000 additional places.

  Dans le groupe d ' âge inférieur à 3 ans, 14 700 places supplémentaires seraient nécessaires et dans le groupe d ' âge de 3 à 6 ans 6 000 places supplémentaires.

  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 11809195

• 375. Steady progress has been made in fortifying children ' s fruit purées (for under-threes) with ferrous lactate (2 mg) and ascorbic acid (at least 30 mg).

  375. Nous n ' avons pas cessé de fortifier les purées de fruits pour bébés - destinées aux enfants de moins de 3 ans - avec du lactate ferreux (2 mg) et de l ' acide ascorbique (30 mg minimum).

  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 22488596

enfants

Used about 3 527 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 527).

• 235. Forty-six per cent of under-threes in the regions of Dakar, Thiès, Diourbel and Saint Louis suffer from parasitic infestation of the digestive tract.

  235. Les parasites digestifs atteignent 46% des enfants de 0 à 36 mois dans les régions de Dakar, Thiès, Diourbel et Saint Louis.

  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 15263758

mois

Used about 38 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38).

• Tom was born three months earlier than me.

  Tom est né 3 mois avant moi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by end and blizb · checked, community translation · #10768194 #11162627

More sentences

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

• The “China,” for Liverpool, had started three-quarters of an hour before!

  DANS LEQUEL PHILEAS FOGG ENGAGE UNE LUTTE DIRECTE CONTRE LA MAUVAISE CHANCE

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2797

• Part two is interoperability, in other words, that transport can take place between countries with different systems. Part three is still to come.

  La deuxième partie est l' interopérabilité, c' est-à-dire que des transports peuvent avoir lieu entre des pays ayant des systèmes différents.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152276

• Cologne had based its hypothesis for an employment pact on three pillars, but too little is said about the third pillar, the liberalisation of the markets.

  Mais on parle trop peu du troisième pilier, à savoir celui de la libéralisation des marchés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2026630

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