tool — English to French

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

What it means: tool in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: tool (41 461), tools (62 119). By style: everyday 100 · literary 8 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 4 514 · legal and administrative 11 426 · UN documents 87 528.

outils

Used about 58 142 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 92 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 3 244 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 299 · UN documents ≈ 46 499). Forms: outil, outils.

• I have a tool.

  J'ai un outil.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cntrational and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1120842 #1121038

• “Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker,” thought Marius.

  --Ce sont des outils de taillandier, pensa Marius.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17139

• You have the tools.

  Vous avez les outils nécessaires.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312699

• Parts for pneumatic hand tools

  Parties d'outils pneumatiques portatifs

  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 2996935

• We all need an effective tool.

  Nous avons tous besoin d ' un outil efficace.

  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 20039782

instruments

Used about 17 386 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 799 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 082 · UN documents ≈ 15 500). Forms: instrument, instruments.

• They use modern tools.

  Ils utilisent des instruments modernes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · #12747880 #12747519

• The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

  Lorsqu’on bâtit la maison, on se servit de pierres toutes taillées, et ni marteau, ni hache, ni aucun instrument de fer, ne furent entendus dans la maison pendant qu’on la construisait.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 6:7

• The tools are surely known to all.

  Les instruments, tout le monde les connaît.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 20514

• The tools and measures selected shall be used in the most cost-effective manner.

  L'utilisation des instruments et mesures choisis se caractérise par un rapport coût-efficacité optimal.

  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 1371702

• Rape was used as a tool of war in East Timor.

  Le viol est en effet utilisé comme instrument de guerre au Timor oriental.

  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 2580614

More sentences

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

• On a piece of paper, the engineer drew the tool he had in mind.

  Sur une feuille de papier, l'ingénieur réalise un dessin de l'appareil qu'il avait imaginé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LeeSooHa and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #11035822 #1786460

• The dictionary is an invaluable tool for learning languages.

  Quand on étudie les langues, le dictionnaire est d'une aide précieuse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeanne and Aiji · checked, community translation · #460261 #14692

• I can't use this tool without reading the instructions first.

  Je ne peux pas utiliser cette machine sans lire la notice avant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cruzedu73 and Khirthash · checked, community translation · #2315085 #4293884

Grammar

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