words — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: words (60 733). By style: everyday 754 · literary 112 · biblical 504 · parliamentary 14 884 · legal and administrative 5 773 · UN documents 38 706.

mots

Used about 23 914 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 534 · literary ≈ 35 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 4 031 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 564 · UN documents ≈ 17 740).

• I have no words.

  Les mots me manquent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ricardo14 and aandrusiak · checked, community translation · #1312015 #497820

• M. Leblanc erased the three words.

  M. Leblanc ratura les trois mots.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17601

• Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  Rappelle ces choses, en conjurant devant Dieu qu’on évite les disputes de mots, qui ne servent qu’à la ruine de ceux qui écoutent.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 2:14

• Now a few words about interoperability.

  Enfin, quelques mots sur l'interopérabilité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 494341

• It shall be concise and not exceed 2500 words, except in duly justified cases.

  Il doit être concis et ne pas dépasser 2500 mots, sauf dans des cas dûment justifiés.

  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 3339718

termes

Used about 11 113 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 860 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 608 · UN documents ≈ 5 645).

• In other words, we are talking about years rather than months.

  Nous parlons en termes d'années et non de mois.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1660418

• This box shall begin with the words “valid for”.

  Cette case commence par les termes “valable pour”.

  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 4360324

• In other words, there was a need in trade negotiations for affirmative action for the weak.

  En d ' autres termes, il fallait que les négociations commerciales comportent une action positive en faveur des plus faibles.

  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 16341530

• In other words, what is already burnt cannot be burnt again.

  En d’autres termes, ce qui a été brûlé ne peut brûler à nouveau.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 603169

• In other words their resale prices were on average above EUR 30/pair.

  En d’autres termes, leur prix de revente moyen est supérieur à 30 EUR/paire.

  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 968516

paroles

Used about 4 525 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 141 · literary ≈ 47 · biblical ≈ 368 · parliamentary ≈ 1 550 · UN documents ≈ 2 419).

• His words gave me hope.

  Ses paroles me donnèrent de l'espoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TomSFox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #808728 #2025171

• These words cheered me up.

  Ces paroles me ranimèrent.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2457

• They remembered his words,

  Et elles se ressouvinrent des paroles de Jésus.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 24:8

• Nice words, nice ambitions, nice vision.

  Belles paroles, belles ambitions, beau dessein.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 240792

• At this moment, we are inspired by the words of Allah in the Holy Koran:

  Nous nous inspirons des paroles d ' Allah dans le Coran :

  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 1321787

paragraphe

Used about 1 853 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 241 · UN documents ≈ 1 613).

• In paragraph 2, the introductory words are replaced by the following:

  Au paragraphe 2, la phrase liminaire est remplacée par le texte suivant:

  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 1626819

• XIII Add the words " or the [Substance hazardous to the aquatic environment] mark " to 5.3.2.1.2.(b) as follows:

  XIII Au paragraphe 5.3.2.1.2, alinéa b, ajouter < < ou de la marque [matière dangereuse pour le milieu aquatique] > > comme suit:

  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 12661720

• In paragraph 1, the words “or an EFTA State” shall be inserted after the words “the Community”.

  au paragraphe 1, l'expression “ou un État de l'AELE” est insérée après le terme “la Communauté”;

  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 8494

• We propose replacing the words " shall determine " by " shall be entitled to determine " .

  Au paragraphe 3 de l ' article 8, nous proposons de remplacer le verbe < < déterminera > > par < < sera en droit de déterminer > > .

  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 29870087

More sentences

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

• The view is beautiful beyond words.

  La vue est d'une beauté indescriptible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and felix63 · checked, community translation · #44178 #3432889

• The journalists present understood the irony in her words.

  Les journalistes présents ont saisi l'ironie de ses propos.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10130026 #10601586

• When traveling abroad, it's helpful to learn at least a few chance words and phrases of your destination.

  Quand on part à l'étranger, c'est utile d'apprendre au moins quelques formules de politesse dans la langue locale.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeanne and Dorenda · checked, community translation · #460305 #405413

Grammar

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