connaissance — French to English

How French connaissance 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: connaissance (62 718), connaissances (81 338). By style: everyday 279 · literary 9 · biblical 80 · parliamentary 7 485 · legal and administrative 12 616 · UN documents 123 587.

knowledge

Used about 81 056 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 113 · biblical ≈ 55 · parliamentary ≈ 5 770 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 462 · UN documents ≈ 65 656). Meaning: knowledge in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai soif de connaissances.

  I have a thirst for knowledge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and felidad · checked, community translation · #10570660 #3247192

• Tout homme prudent agit avec connaissance, Mais l’insensé fait étalage de folie.

  Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 13:16

• Les connaissances et les budgets ne font pas tout.

  Knowledge and funds are not everything.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1038420

• Connaissance du matériel roulant

  Knowledge of rolling stock

  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 2544641

• La gestion des savoirs et connaissances

  Knowledge management in the United Nations system

  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 18026670

know

Used about 4 147 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 234 · UN documents ≈ 3 862). Meaning: know in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je veux faire ta connaissance.

  I want to get to know you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2012461 #2435658

• Que sais-tu que nous ne sachions pas? Quelle connaissance as-tu que nous n’ayons pas?

  What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 15:9

• À ma connaissance, cette décision n'a pas encore été prise et il nous faut donc être clairs quant à nos intentions dans le cadre de ces débats.

  As far as I know this decision has not yet been taken and, therefore, we need to be clear about what we are trying to do in these debates.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 307488

• À notre connaissance, ce phénomène touche aussi tous les autres pays.

  As far as we know, it is a problem for every other country also.

  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 22653088

• Elles ont connaissance de nos projets.

  They know our plans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2647592 #4910606

More sentences

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

• Le seigneur démon perdit enfin connaissance et tomba au sol avec un bruit sourd.

  The demon lord finally lost consciousness and fell to the floor with a thud.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by SUZIE and blay_paul · checked, community translation · #451543 #535794

• Dès que j'ai eu connaissance de l'existence de l'université, j'ai voulu y aller.

  As long as I've known about the existence of the university, I've wanted to go there.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #2160128 #2160603

• Il faut suffisamment d’informations pour décider en connaissance de cause.

  To make informed decisions we need sufficient information.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and Dejo · checked, community translation · #3186449 #8608154

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