what — English to French

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

What it means: what in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: what (273 708), whats (5). By style: everyday 18 990 · literary 751 · biblical 965 · parliamentary 96 673 · legal and administrative 9 253 · UN documents 147 081.

quel

Used about 71 937 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 769 · literary ≈ 47 · biblical ≈ 101 · parliamentary ≈ 4 028 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 957 · UN documents ≈ 63 035). Forms: quel, quelles.

• What movie did you see?

  Quel film avez-vous vu ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3820908 #1090629

• What radiance surrounds the forge!

  Quel rayonnement dans l'enclume!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19931

• But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

  Jésus se tourna vers eux, et les réprimanda, disant: Vous ne savez de quel esprit vous êtes animés.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 9:55

• What do these studies say?

  Quelles sont les conclusions de ces études?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1852806

• If yes, what are the conditions?

  Dans l'affirmative, à quelles conditions?

  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 5618251

nécessaire

Used about 9 343 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 028 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 313 · UN documents ≈ 3 002).

• Lastly, what is really needed to achieve these objectives is a commitment to enhance cooperation among Member States in the field of justice.

  Enfin, pour réaliser ces objectifs, il est vraiment nécessaire de renforcer réellement la coopération entre les États membres dans le domaine juridique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 349815

• In accordance with the principle of proportionality set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that objective.

  Conformément au principe de proportionnalité tel qu'énoncé audit article, le présent règlement n'excède pas ce qui est nécessaire pour atteindre cet objectif.

  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 4404375

• However, one needs to see what principles can be drawn from the example of cluster munitions.

  Il est néanmoins nécessaire de déterminer quels principes peuvent être dégagés des armes à sousmunitions.

  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 13399208

• Contrary to what Mr Brok said, the choice is not between the constitution and Mr Verhofstadt; we should have a vision of a constitution and Verhofstadt.

  Contrairement à ce qu'affirme M. Brok, il n'est pas nécessaire de choisir entre la constitution et M. Verhofstadt; notre vision devrait inclure les deux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 894827

• This Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve the objective pursued, in accordance with Article 5(4) of the Treaty on European Union.

  Le présent règlement n’excède pas ce qui est nécessaire pour atteindre cet objectif, conformément à l’article 5, paragraphe 4, du traité sur l’Union européenne.

  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 4088980

More sentences

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

• What's bothering you?

  Qu'est-ce qui te tracasse ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Blabla · checked, community translation · #2234071 #2999484

• You don't even know what I did.

  Tu ne sais même pas ce que j'ai fait.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3424289 #8305732

• I know what they want me to do.

  Je sais ce qu'ils veulent que je fasse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2376323 #2385946

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