Elamur Translateétait — French to English
How French était is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.
The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: était (549 313). By style: everyday 10 679 · literary 1 692 · biblical 1 531 · parliamentary 31 187 · legal and administrative 37 600 · UN documents 466 624.
was
Used about 374 423 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 454 · literary ≈ 1 199 · biblical ≈ 1 180 · parliamentary ≈ 22 741 · legal and administrative ≈ 29 767 · UN documents ≈ 311 083).
C'était la cousine de Tom.
That was Tom's cousin.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · #2891916 #6865669Il était alors dix heures et demie.
It was now half-past ten.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 321et Ira de Jaïr était ministre d’état de David.
and Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 20:26C’était un mouvement inspiré par des valeurs.
It was a movement inspired by values.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 716630Le sirop ainsi séparé était appelé sirop couvert.
The syrup thus produced was known as ‘covered’ syrup.
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 4578821
had
Used about 50 706 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 222 · literary ≈ 247 · biblical ≈ 64 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 567 · UN documents ≈ 48 607).
Ce qui est arrivé n'était pas de la faute de Tom.
What had happened wasn't Tom's fault.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and CK · checked, community translation · #1040491 #1198984L'égout était sans fond.
The sewer had no bottom.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27410Environ trois heures plus tard, sa femme entra, sans savoir ce qui était arrivé.
About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 5:7À cette époque, elle avait révisé son estimation des coûts globaux du projet, qui était passée à [730-760] millions de NOK.
At that time, Finnfjord had revised its total cost estimate to NOK [730-760] million.
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 5670179Ce taux était de 74,3 % au 30 novembre 2009.
At the same time last year, 74.3 per cent of the current year’s assessment had been received.
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 23281253
one
Used about 9 849 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 128 · UN documents ≈ 9 721). Meaning: one in the Elamur Dictionary.
Il mesura la muraille, et trouva cent quarante-quatre coudées, mesure d’homme, qui était celle de l’ange.
Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 21:17275. Une délégation a posé des questions sur le rôle des ONG dans le pays : est-ce que leur nombre était en augmentation?
One delegation asked about the role of NGOs in the country: Were they increasing in number?
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 3854525d’autres, qu’Élie était apparu; et d’autres, qu’un des anciens prophètes était ressuscité.
and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 9:8L’un d’eux, Caïphe, qui était souverain sacrificateur cette année-là, leur dit: Vous n’y entendez rien;
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 11:49C’était du temps d’Assuérus, de cet Assuérus qui régnait depuis l’Inde jusqu’en Éthiopie sur cent vingt-sept provinces;
Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 1:1
man
Used about 35 times in the texts (literary ≈ 35). Meaning: man in the Elamur Dictionary.
C'était un anglais qui revenait des Indes.
An English India-man, homeward bound.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1049
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Je veux faire comme si ça n'était jamais arrivé.
I want to pretend it never happened.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2018818 #2470489Le navire n'était pas en ordre de bataille.
The ship wasn't ready for battle.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1963172 #1965494Jim m'a écrit la semaine dernière et m'a dit qu'il était revenu il y a deux mois.
Jim wrote to me last week and said that he'd been back for two months.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Maxence and tabular · checked, community translation · #5170526 #7701647
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