twenty — English to French

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

What it means: twenty in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: twenties (126), twenty (85 321). By style: everyday 291 · literary 82 · biblical 284 · parliamentary 1 902 · legal and administrative 611 · UN documents 82 277.

vingt

Used about 33 114 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 249 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 284 · parliamentary ≈ 1 162 · legal and administrative ≈ 484 · UN documents ≈ 30 854). Forms: vingt, vingtaine.

• Jean is twenty years old.

  Jean a vingt ans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bekindtoall and felix63 · checked, community translation · #10259843 #10255474

• Give me twenty francs.”

  Donnez-moi vingt francs.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31591

• The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

  les fils de Harim, trois cent vingt;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 2:32

• Twenty-two amendments have been proposed.

  Vingt-deux amendements ont été proposés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2040722

• twenty-first row (Finland):

  vingt et unième ligne (Finlande):

  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 1794371

ans

Used about 19 833 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 106 · UN documents ≈ 19 712).

• He looks old, but he is still in his twenties.

  Il paraît vieux, mais il n'a pas encore trente ans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Thierry · checked, community translation · #292585 #542327

• Twenty-five per cent of deaths in young people aged 15 to 30 are alcohol-related.

  25 % des décès parmi les jeunes âgés de 15 à 30 ans sont liés à l'alcool.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 958248

• Most of those who become infected with HIV/AIDS are in their teens or early twenties.

  La plupart des sidéens sont des adolescents ou des jeunes de 20 ans environ.

  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 13155027

• He was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal.

  C’était un grand garçon un peu lourd de 25 ans, à l’air grave et compassé et aux manières cérémonieuses.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #838475 #838478

• It is intolerable and unbearable that in twenty years this has not happened.

  Il est intolérable et insupportable que cette condamnation n'ait toujours pas eu lieu 20 ans plus tard.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1240696

session

Used about 4 285 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 285).

• 15. Requests the Special Rapporteur to present her next report to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fifth session;

  15. Prie la Rapporteuse spéciale de lui présenter son prochain rapport à sa vingtcinquième session;

  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 27493189

• Item 3: Matters arising from the twenties session of the Committee on Sustainable Energy related to the Working Party on Gas

  Point 3 Questions découlant de la vingtième session du Comité de l ' énergie durable qui se rapportent au Groupe de travail du gaz

  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 24561340

• Recalling also Resolution No. 30/29-E adopted by the Twenty-ninth Session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers,

  Rappelant également la résolution No 30/29-E adoptée par la 29ème session de la Conférence islamique des ministres des affaires étrangères;

  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 9957302

• The twenty-first session of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names will be held in the same Conference Centre on Monday, 26 August and on Friday, 6 September 2002.

  The twenty-first session of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names will be held in the same Conference Centre on Monday, 26 August and on Friday, 6 September 2002.

  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 9470078

• The twenty-fourth session of the Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution was convened in Geneva from 11 to 14 December 2006.

  1. La vingtcinquième session de l ' organe exécutif de la Convention sur la pollution atmosphérique transfrontière à longue distance s ' est tenue à Genève du 10 au 13 décembre 2007.

  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 19035832

années

Used about 2 795 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 211 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 2 571).

• The Europe of the nineteenth century, the Europe which reflects the Chicago of the Twenties, is not my Europe.

  L’Europe du XIXe siècle, l’Europe à l’image du Chicago des années 20, n’est pas mon Europe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 522836

• For these employees, the entity attributes benefit of CU100 (CU2,000 divided by twenty) to each year from the age of 35 to the age of 55.

  Pour ces membres du personnel, l’entité rattache un droit à prestations de 100 UM (2000 UM ÷ par 20) à chacune des années de 35 à 55 ans.

  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 2628215

• This might only occur when this male cohort is in their late twenties.

  Cette déclaration peut n ' être faite que pour des cohortes masculines approchant la trentaine d ' années.

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• There was a massive Montenegrin liberation movement, whose activities continued through the twenties and into the thirties.

  Il y a eu un mouvement massif de libération du Monténégro, dont les activités se sont poursuivies dans les années 1920 et 1930.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1011919

• Middle school enrolment form a segmented trajectory, a rising early nineties, flat later nineties and an ascending incipient twenties.

  - augmentation au début des années 90, stagnation à la fin des années 90 et reprise au début des années 2000.

  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 16971321

More sentences

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

• Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

  Rétrospectivement, on a toujours dix dixièmes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Olya and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3453466 #3459563

• It was about twenty dollars.

  C'était à peu près 20 dollars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and queenie · checked, community translation · #42830 #181029

• There are twenty-nine letters in the Turkish alphabet.

  Dans l'alphabet turc, il y a 29 lettres.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by frpzzd and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #13405280 #13405589

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