years — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: years (449 183). By style: everyday 1 781 · literary 114 · biblical 431 · parliamentary 40 661 · legal and administrative 38 011 · UN documents 368 185.

ans

Used about 242 860 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 373 · literary ≈ 102 · biblical ≈ 350 · parliamentary ≈ 18 636 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 965 · UN documents ≈ 199 434).

• I am 12 years old.

  J'ai douze ans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Eldad · checked, community translation · #2706902 #2069123

• Doubled in four years!

  Doublée en quatre ans!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7375

• Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.

  Abimélec avait dominé trois ans sur Israël.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 9:22

• That was three years ago.

  Il y a déjà trois ans de cela !

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 101004

• The age limit of 12 years is provisional.

  L’âge limite de 12 ans est fixé à titre provisoire.

  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 1848364

années

Used about 169 092 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 371 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 72 · parliamentary ≈ 19 483 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 087 · UN documents ≈ 138 069).

• Several years went by.

  De nombreuses années se sont écoulées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by voxbubnya and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #271062 #7115699

• Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to climb.

  Années rudes; difficiles, les unes à traverser, les autres à gravir.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14817

• “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

  Pendant six années, tu ensemenceras la terre, et tu en recueilleras le produit.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 23:10

• This sector underwent reform a few years ago.

  Ce secteur a connu une réforme il y a quelques années.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1374726

• 2nd and 3rd years: EUR 60 per tonne

  et 3e années: 60 EUR par tonne

  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 154037

pendant

Used about 847 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 847).

• I would just like to say that I lived through the siege and the shelling of Sarajevo for one and a half years.

  Je tiens à dire que j'ai vécu pendant un an et demi le siège et le bombardement de Sarajevo.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1301325

depuis

Used about 803 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 9 · legal and administrative ≈ 792).

• For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action.

  Pour la première fois depuis huit années, le malheureux homme venait de sentir la saveur amère d'une mauvaise pensée et d'une mauvaise action.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5083

• After many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

  Depuis longtemps l’Éternel avait donné du repos à Israël, en le délivrant de tous les ennemis qui l’entouraient. Josué était vieux, avancé en âge.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 23:1

• HCA has not expanded since 2009 and is merely returning to the original volume of flights operated by ČSA's charter division in the years 2008 to 2009.

  L’entreprise HCA ne s’est pas développée depuis 2009, elle revient seulement au volume initial de vols exploités par la division charter de ČSA en 2008 et 2009.

  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 2782921

More sentences

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

• Sami is a few years older than Layla.

  Sami est un peu plus vieux que Layla.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and genes1s · checked, community translation · #7287319 #13357065

• My first criticism concerns the matters for urgent and topical debate, something with which I have dealt for years in this House.

  Ma première critique concerne les "urgences".

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 332751

• I want to declare an interest because I have, in my former years, been a director of sales for a major car company.

  Je veux déclarer un intérêt, parce que, auparavant, j'ai occupé un poste de directeur des ventes chez l'un des plus importants constructeurs automobiles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 329382

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