western — English to French

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

What it means: western in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: western (67 131), westerns (5). By style: everyday 105 · literary 3 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 4 293 · legal and administrative 2 975 · UN documents 59 755.

occidentale

Used about 52 965 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 92 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 3 154 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 673 · UN documents ≈ 48 038). Forms: occidental, occidentale, occidentales, occidentaux.

• Long live Western Sahara.

  Vive le Sahara occidental.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #10331945 #10896799

• And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the western face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice-accursed name:

  Et, partageant sa stupéfaction, sinon sa joie, je lus sur la face occidentale du bloc, en caractères runiques à demi-rongés par le temps, ce nom mille fois maudit:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1403

• “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.

  Votre limite occidentale sera la grande mer: ce sera votre limite à l’occident.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 34:6

• My constituency is Szczecin, in Western Pomerania.

  Ma circonscription est celle de Szczecin, en Poméranie occidentale.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1079089

• Peninsular (western) Malaysia only.

  Malaisie péninsulaire (occidentale) seulement.

  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 1376284

ouest

Used about 2 761 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 526 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 054 · UN documents ≈ 1 172).

• All quiet on the Western Front.

  Tout est calme sur le front ouest.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ulumills and belgavox · checked, community translation · #1135218 #1718111

• Perhaps we shall be more fortunate if we follow the western tunnel."

  Il est possible que nous soyons plus heureux en suivant le tunnel de l'ouest.»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1870

• This is indicative of our political significance in both Eastern and Western Europe.

  C'est vous dire le poids politique qui est le nôtre, à l'Est comme à l'Ouest de l'Europe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 900682

• Following the N228 in a western direction.

  En suivant la N228 en direction de l'ouest.

  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 3169435

• The Commission refused to permit any other Western Shoshone tribe or group to object or to be heard in the proceeding.

  La Commission a refusé d ' autoriser toute autre tribu ou groupe des Shoshones de l ' Ouest à soulever des exceptions ou à prendre part à la procédure.

  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 6367336

europe

Used about 2 343 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 343).

• Western Europe and other States

  Western Europe and other States

  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 24852333

• It is emerging on the continent of western Europe.

  Elle est en train de s ' amorcer en Europe de l ' Ouest continentale.

  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 7341797

balkans

Used about 88 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 88).

• During the working lunch, the situation in the western Balkans, in particular in Kosovo and Albania, was also discussed.

  Pendant le déjeuner de travail, les discussions ont porté sur la situation dans l'ouest des Balkans, en particulier au Kosovo et en Albanie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1892824

More sentences

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

• The end of the Western Roman Empire marks the beginning of the Middle Ages.

  La fin de l'Empire Romain d'Occident marque le début du Moyen Âge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13934559 #13934560

• I like westerns.

  J'aime les westerns.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and aperitero · checked, community translation · #6600844 #6601140

• It is by no means certain that the Iranian authorities will change their policy under Western pressure, but they do want to entertain good relations with countries of the Union.

  Les autorités iraniennes modifieront-elles leur politique sous la pression de l'Occident? C'est très incertain.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1718575

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