autour — French to English

How French autour is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: autour (26 389), autours (10). By style: everyday 406 · literary 96 · biblical 158 · parliamentary 2 804 · legal and administrative 2 412 · UN documents 20 523.

around

Used about 12 223 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 333 · literary ≈ 40 · biblical ≈ 132 · parliamentary ≈ 1 110 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 280 · UN documents ≈ 9 329). Meaning: around in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je regardai autour de moi.

  I looked around me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #321857 #849175

• Il semblait ne rien voir autour de lui.

  He seemed to see nothing around him.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13798

• Alors Israël plaça une embuscade autour de Guibea.

  Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 20:29

• Tout autour de lui, la situation est précaire. La Somalie a pratiquement cessé d’exister en tant qu’État.

  All around it, the situation is precarious.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 758670

• Espace exempt de métal autour des roues

  Metal-free space around wheels

  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 831388

More sentences

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

• Ne tournez pas autour du pot, dites simplement ce que vous pensez.

  Don't be mealy-mouthed, just say what you mean.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · #12383093 #12383095

• Les moucherons volèrent en nuée autour de nous.

  The gnats swarmed us.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and mccarras · checked, community translation · #8983389 #13498407

• Les neurosciences ont fait leur apparition autour des années quatre-vingt-dix.

  Neurosciences emerged in the nineteen-ninetiesishes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #940531 #940532

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