deux — French to English

How French deux is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: deux (653 518). By style: everyday 3 943 · literary 571 · biblical 776 · parliamentary 51 374 · legal and administrative 65 035 · UN documents 531 819.

two

Used about 433 312 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 875 · literary ≈ 416 · biblical ≈ 647 · parliamentary ≈ 39 601 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 227 · UN documents ≈ 354 546). Meaning: two in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu as deux livres.

  You have two books.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fucongcong and Eldad · checked, community translation · #69062 #526563

• Résister seul contre deux?

  Could I stand against the two?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3316

• les gens de Micmas, cent vingt-deux;

  The men of Michmas: one hundred twenty-two.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:31

• Notre débat présente deux faiblesses.

  Our debate has two weaknesses.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1554224

• L’électricité est facturée en deux étapes.

  The power is priced in two steps.

  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 5652039

both

Used about 97 858 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 739 · literary ≈ 59 · biblical ≈ 32 · parliamentary ≈ 3 211 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 259 · UN documents ≈ 77 557). Meaning: both in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Nous aimons Tom tous les deux.

  We both love Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Caku and CK · checked, community translation · #2713750 #7463510

• Il l'entourait de ses deux bras.

  He encircled her with both arms.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6414

• les deux hommes en contestation comparaîtront devant l’Éternel, devant les sacrificateurs et les juges alors en fonction.

  then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 19:17

• Tous deux ont conduit les négociations avec beaucoup de persévérance, de patience et de sagesse.

  Both of them steered the talks with a great deal of dedication, patience and understanding.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1620527

• SIGNIFICATION STATISTIQUE (pour les deux méthodes)

  STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE (for both methods)

  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 4797556

one

Used about 13 822 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 32 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 710 · UN documents ≈ 11 080). Meaning: one in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Car il est notre paix, lui qui des deux n’en a fait qu’un, et qui a renversé le mur de séparation, l’inimitié,

  For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 2:14

• C'est par exemple l'une des raisons pour lesquelles les hôpitaux IRIS emploient plus de deux fois plus de travailleurs sociaux que les hôpitaux universitaires (voir le considérant 213).

  This is one of the reasons why the IRIS-H employ more than twice as many social workers as e.g. university hospitals (see recital 213).

  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 3885964

• En outre, l ' adoption d ' une disposition séparée faisant référence à l ' un des deux sexes violerait le principe de non-sexisme de la législation arménienne.

  Furthermore, introduction of a separate clause referring to one of the sexes will violate the gender-neutrality principle of the Armenian legislation.

  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 22174270

• De là, en suivant la côte, nous atteignîmes Reggio; et, le vent du midi s’étant levé le lendemain, nous fîmes en deux jours le trajet jusqu’à Pouzzoles,

  From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 28:13

• Il convient de répondre de manière pragmatique à la question: «Qu'est-ce qu'un bâtiment?» Pour décrire un bâtiment, deux mots peuvent parfois suffire, par exemple «parking couvert».

  The question what is meant by a ‘building’ should be answered pragmatically. A ‘one-word’ description (e.g. ‘parking shelter’) could be sufficient.

  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 880361

More sentences

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

• Il l'appelait tous les deux jours.

  He called her every other day.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #302674 #12655627

• Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable.

  The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and Vortarulo · checked, community translation · #765014 #432232

• Je vais au conservatoire tous les deux jours – les lundis, mercredis et vendredis.

  I go to the conservatory every other day – on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10268063 #10268050

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