chose — French to English

How French chose is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: chose (34 319), choses (31 132). By style: everyday 6 619 · literary 328 · biblical 887 · parliamentary 31 587 · legal and administrative 503 · UN documents 25 527.

things

Used about 18 512 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 378 · literary ≈ 188 · biblical ≈ 480 · parliamentary ≈ 9 871 · legal and administrative ≈ 73 · UN documents ≈ 4 520). Forms: thing, things.

• Je veux de nombreuses choses.

  I want many things.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2011402 #2427360

• --C'est la même chose.

  “It is the same thing.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 809

• Tu ne mangeras aucune chose abominable.

  You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 14:3

• Cette aide porte sur deux choses.

  This aid is directed at two things.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 78031

• Le tableau ci-dessus montre deux choses.

  The above table demonstrates two things.

  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 4903521

something

Used about 7 623 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 999 · literary ≈ 55 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 3 948 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 · UN documents ≈ 1 595).

• J'ai quelque chose à toi.

  I have something of yours.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2062855 #2443391

• --J'essayerai une chose.

  “I am going to try something.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22323

• Si un homme pousse son prochain par un mouvement de haine, ou s’il jette quelque chose sur lui avec préméditation, et que la mort en soit la suite,

  If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 35:20

• Quelque chose doit céder.

  Something has to give.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1040225

• SI TU NE COMPRENDS PAS QUELQUE CHOSE OU SI TU AS D’AUTRES QUESTIONS À POSER, DIS-LE LEUR!

  IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, OR YOU HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK THEM!

  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 3251406

More sentences

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

• On n'a pas fait grand-chose hier.

  We didn't do much yesterday.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #4890446 #9077950

• Dan a nié avoir quelque chose à voir avec Linda.

  Dan denied having anything to do with Linda.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · #3991236 #3991810

• Les gens changent. Il n'y a pas grand-chose à y faire.

  People change. There's not much you can do about it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and FlamingTofu · checked, community translation · #1987988 #1988315

Grammar

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