weeks — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: weeks (35 402). By style: everyday 218 · literary 8 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 5 163 · legal and administrative 3 283 · UN documents 26 717.

semaines

Used about 31 670 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 218 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 4 840 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 215 · UN documents ≈ 23 377).

• Three weeks went by.

  Trois semaines ont passé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1434382 #4900545

• 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

• And for seven long weeks Resolution 1441 was debated.

  Et pendant sept longues semaines, la résolution 1441 a été débattue.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 415351

• 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

More sentences

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

• “It isn’t two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear.”

  --Il n'y a pas quinze jours qu'il m'a enlevé par l'oreille de la corniche du pont Royal où je prenais l'air.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24119

• In the next two weeks we have a chance to negotiate a deal to actually put this technology into practice.

  Les quinze prochains jours, nous avons l'occasion de négocier un accord en vue de mettre réellement en pratique cette technologie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1174725

• Why was it a surprise that there was genocide since the referendum two weeks ago?

  Pourquoi le génocide perpétré depuis le référendum d'il y a deux semaine nous surprend-il?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2008867

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