world — English to French

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

What it means: world in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: world (523 272), worlds (643). By style: everyday 1 631 · literary 86 · biblical 209 · parliamentary 36 818 · legal and administrative 8 949 · UN documents 476 222.

monde

Used about 380 554 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 437 · literary ≈ 74 · biblical ≈ 184 · parliamentary ≈ 28 764 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 810 · UN documents ≈ 342 285). Forms: monde, mondes, mondial, mondiale.

• The world is harsh.

  Le monde est difficile.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and Scott · checked, community translation · #1363635 #1130985

• The world is a great diamond.

  Le monde est un gros diamant!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3080

• Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

  Ne vous étonnez pas, frères, si le monde vous hait.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1JO 3:13

• It has gained the world's trust.

  Il a gagné la confiance du monde entier.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1192593

• Rest of the world including all sub-sectors [25]

  Reste du monde, tous sous-secteurs compris [25]

  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 1318123

nous

Used about 17 221 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 301 · UN documents ≈ 14 882).

• We have the best of both worlds!

  Nous avons le beurre et l’argent du beurre !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · #10680675 #10680676

• But one chance in a thousand, or ten thousand, is still a chance; whilst death from starvation would leave us not the smallest hope in the world.

  Une chance sur mille est toujours une chance, tandis que la mort par la faim ne nous laissait d'espoir dans aucune proportion, si petite qu'elle fût.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3731

• But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

  nous prêchons la sagesse de Dieu, mystérieuse et cachée, que Dieu, avant les siècles, avait destinée pour notre gloire,

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

• We are a world away from the real situation.

  Nous sommes à mille lieues de la situation réelle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1246892

• We face immense challenges in both the developing and developed worlds.

  Nous sommes confrontés à des problèmes immenses dans les pays en développement et dans les pays développés.

  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 6016127

More sentences

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

• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

  Ce qu'il y a de plus incompréhensible dans l'univers, c'est qu'il soit compréhensible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jerom and Clavain · checked, community translation · #437134 #437135

• If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

  Le nez de Cléopâtre, s'il eût été plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait changé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sysko · checked, community translation · #30983 #341751

• What in the world got into you?

  Qu'est-ce qui a bien pu te prendre ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3731980 #4428536

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