water — English to French

How English water is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: water in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: water (193 565), waters (28 414). By style: everyday 1 665 · literary 103 · biblical 577 · parliamentary 8 946 · legal and administrative 38 099 · UN documents 172 589.

eaux

Used about 186 791 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 514 · literary ≈ 87 · biblical ≈ 529 · parliamentary ≈ 7 921 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 512 · UN documents ≈ 140 229). Forms: eau, eaux.

• The water's cold.

  L'eau est froide.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3422364 #1984892

• "But that column of water?"

  —Mais cette colonne d'eau!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3058

• Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

  Les eaux ont inondé ma tête; Je disais: Je suis perdu!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:54

• I do not want to muddy the waters.

  Je ne souhaite pas rendre les eaux troubles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 112179

• EU waters of IV

  Eaux UE de la zone IV

  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 2410127

More sentences

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

• The president's off-the-cuff remarks have gotten him into hot water.

  Les remarques improvisées du président l'ont placé en mauvaise posture.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #712961 #802140

• She waters the garden.

  Elle arrose le jardin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and martin9 · checked, community translation · #8281525 #5258003

• Roger Waters was found this morning in his hotel room, tragically alive.

  Roger Waters a été retrouvé ce matin dans sa chambre d'hôtel, tragiquement vivant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · #12153345 #12153458

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