week — English to French

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

What it means: week in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: week (50 189), weeks (35 402). By style: everyday 1 391 · literary 20 · biblical 25 · parliamentary 13 064 · legal and administrative 6 102 · UN documents 64 989.

semaines

Used about 74 557 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 391 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 12 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 911 · UN documents ≈ 54 834). Forms: semaine, semaines.

• I need a week.

  J'ai besoin d'une semaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2387472 #7763076

• Many weeks had elapsed.

  Plusieurs semaines s'étaient écoulées.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3582

• In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

  En ce temps-là, moi, Daniel, je fus trois semaines dans le deuil.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 10:2

• I spoke to Xerox this week.

  J'ai parlé avec Xerox cette semaine.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1944366

• 3 weeks or since hatching

  3 semaines ou depuis leur éclosion

  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 5205872

deux

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1).

• The Fogg party dwindled more and more, everybody was going against him, and the bets stood a hundred and fifty and two hundred to one; and a week after his departure an incident occurred which deprived him of backers at any price.

  Or, on en était là, les partisans de Phileas Fogg se raréfiaient de plus en plus; tout le monde, et non sans raison, se mettait contre lui; on ne le prenait plus qu'à cent cinquante, à deux cents contre un, quand, sept jours après son départ, un incident, complètement inattendu, fit qu'on ne le prit plus du tout.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 277

More sentences

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

• A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure.

  Huit jours après, Jean Valjean avait déménagé.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19553

• The ‘Carnatic’, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong twelve hours before the stated time, without any notice being given; and we must now wait a week for another steamer.”

  Le Carnatic, ayant terminé ses réparations, a quitté Hong-Kong douze heures plus tôt sans prévenir personne, et maintenant il faudra attendre huit jours le prochain départ!»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1541

• Nevertheless, you are not ignorant of the fact that Noël Lescrivain was condemned, a week ago, to pay ten Parisian sous, for having carried a cutlass.

  Vous n'ignorez pas pourtant que Noël Lescripvain a été condamné il y a huit jours en dix sols parisis pour avoir porté un braquemard.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1524

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