were — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: were (1 235 075), weres (3). By style: everyday 6 867 · literary 668 · biblical 2 180 · parliamentary 48 196 · legal and administrative 70 566 · UN documents 1 106 601.

ont

Used about 381 734 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 858 · parliamentary ≈ 16 065 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 642 · UN documents ≈ 347 169).

• A lot of soldiers were killed here.

  Beaucoup de soldats ont été tués ici.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #61876 #11196

• One hundred people were taken hostage and 40 died as a result.

  Cent personnes ont été prises en otage et 40 sont mortes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1449304

• Accordingly, these claims were not accepted.

  En conséquence, ces demandes n'ont pas été acceptées.

  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 2890010

• At this meeting the following decisions were taken:

  A cette occasion, les décisions ci-après ont été adoptées :

  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 10352288

• About thirty insurgents were killed.

  Une trentaine d'insurgés ont été tués.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5137604 #10484503

étaient

Used about 285 815 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 288 · literary ≈ 167 · biblical ≈ 318 · parliamentary ≈ 6 025 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 642 · UN documents ≈ 260 377).

• They were not ill.

  Ils n'étaient pas malades.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9926485 #2078503

• They were your neighbors.

  Ils étaient vos voisins.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23670

• If they were all one member, where would the body be?

  Si tous étaient un seul membre, où serait le corps?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 12:19

• From the United Kingdom position, we were left with the situation where a number of issues had to be ironed out.

  En ce qui concerne la position britannique, un certain nombre de problèmes étaient restés en suspens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 396589

• Some of those companies were in the start-up phase.

  Certaines de ces sociétés étaient en phase de démarrage.

  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 3929306

ces

Used about 5 113 times in the texts (literary ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 136 · parliamentary ≈ 2 008 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 940).

• “What men these regicides were!” said Enjolras.

  --Quels hommes que ces régicides! dit Enjolras.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24563

• As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

  Le matin, dès qu’il fit jour, on renvoya ces gens avec leurs ânes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 44:3

• These were significant changes.

  Ces changements furent cruciaux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1193001

• Given the above, these claims were rejected.

  Ces arguments sont par conséquent rejetés.

  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 5262548

• To-day, when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, we may publish them.

  Aujourd'hui que tous ces faits restés dans l'ombre ne sont plus que de l'histoire, on peut les publier.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18456

été

Used about 2 736 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 143 · literary ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 91 · parliamentary ≈ 1 004 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 470).

• You were removed from the list.

  Vous avez été retirées de la liste.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7458904 #7793976

• This is why you were not crossed off.”

  Cela fait que vous n'avez pas été rayé.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14275

• But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

  mais nous avons été pleins de douceur au milieu de vous. De même qu’une nourrice prend un tendre soin de ses enfants,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TH 2:7

• At our insistence, Palestinian companies and research establishments were also involved in joint projects.

  Notre insistance quant à la participation d'entreprises et institutions de recherche palestiniennes aux projets communs a été satisfaite.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1956977

• Malong reportedly did not discourage the killing of civilians by the SPLA troops, and persons suspected of hiding rebels were considered legitimate targets.

  Il n'aurait pas découragé le meurtre de civils par les troupes de l'APLS, les personnes soupçonnées de cacher des rebelles ayant été considérées comme des cibles légitimes.

  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 4665805

More sentences

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

• I thought that they were wrong.

  Je pensais qu'elles avaient tort.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7172393 #6456009

• We were just kidding around.

  On déconnait, c'est tout.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · #7004745 #12964861

• I thought that you were a friend.

  Je pensais que vous étiez une amie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #7171926 #2159723

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