whose — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: whose (105 998). By style: everyday 370 · literary 106 · biblical 240 · parliamentary 7 338 · legal and administrative 12 408 · UN documents 85 536.

dont

Used about 74 580 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 77 · literary ≈ 73 · biblical ≈ 55 · parliamentary ≈ 4 739 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 048 · UN documents ≈ 60 588).

• Throw away the chairs whose legs are broken.

  Jetez les chaises dont les pieds sont cassés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Aiji · checked, community translation · #19896 #11133405

• "And whose courage was equal to his genius!"

  —Et dont l'audace égalait le génie?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 901

• whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  Dont la bouche profère la fausseté, Et dont la droite est une droite mensongère.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 144:8

• Let us save those whose lives are threatened.

  Sauvons ceux dont les vies sont menacées.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1230057

• List of parties whose exemption is revoked

  Liste des parties dont l'exemption est révoquée

  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 3633344

More sentences

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

• Whose bike is this?

  C’est à qui, ce vélo ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Mouseneb and gillux · checked, community translation · #386698 #4575262

• Whose pile of junk is this?

  À qui est ce tas de ferraille ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3325756 #13258224

• Whose turn is it?

  À qui le tour ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zmoo · checked, community translation · #435279 #6031

Grammar

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