useful — English to French

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

What it means: useful in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: useful (58 027). By style: everyday 164 · literary 7 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 4 942 · legal and administrative 2 410 · UN documents 50 502.

utile

Used about 45 535 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 144 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 295 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 109 · UN documents ≈ 39 981). Forms: utile, utiles.

• Tom is a useful idiot.

  Tom est un idiot utile.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #7059527 #7059523

• This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at length; we should almost say, to underline it.

  Ce détail importe, et nous croyons utile de le développer; nous dirions presque, de le souligner.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3523

• who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

  qui autrefois t’a été inutile, mais qui maintenant est utile, et à toi et à moi.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHM 1:11

• These figures prove that this is a useful policy.

  Ces quelques chiffres prouvent que cette politique est utile.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 484252

• the mean useful voltage,

  la tension moyenne utile,

  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 1366292

très

Used about 1 361 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 309 · UN documents ≈ 1 052).

• We can naturally give a whole host of useful recommendations in this matter.

  Nous pouvons donner de très nombreux conseils à cet égard.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 333052

• Mini-hydros were an extremely useful and versatile solution, particularly in assisting rural development programmes.

  Les minicentrales hydroélectriques offrent une solution très intéressante et accommodante, en particulier à l ' appui de programmes de développement rural.

  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 12371442

• Annual reports are useful, but joint action is preferable, of course.

  Il est certainement très beau d' avoir des rapports annuels, mais ce serait mieux naturellement si nous pouvions mener des actions communes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 236757

• These matters must be tackled and resolved, and the reports suggest some very important and useful ways in which that can be done.

  Il faut résoudre ces problèmes. Les rapports indiquent quelques voies très importantes et intéressantes à explorer pour y parvenir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977553

More sentences

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

• You have provided me with some very useful advice.

  Vous m'avez fourni quelques précieux conseils.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1320673 #1321906

• Nothing is useful to anything.

  Rien ne sert à rien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · #900283 #900281

• That's useful to know.

  C'est bon à savoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · #9314660 #5754085

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