dire — French to English

How French dire 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: dire (136 435), dires (1 256). By style: everyday 4 128 · literary 285 · biblical 325 · parliamentary 52 560 · legal and administrative 12 294 · UN documents 68 099.

say

Used about 27 719 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 402 · literary ≈ 119 · biblical ≈ 169 · parliamentary ≈ 15 330 · legal and administrative ≈ 768 · UN documents ≈ 9 931). Forms: say, saying. Meaning: say in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il n'y a rien d'autre à dire.

  There's nothing more to say.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CK · checked, community translation · #1839565 #598461

• --Que voulez-vous dire?

  “What do you mean to say?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31705

• Et il ajouta: J’ai un mot à te dire. Elle dit: Parle!

  He said moreover, I have something to tell you.” She said, “Say on.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 2:14

• Je ne peux confirmer vos dires.

  I cannot confirm what you are saying.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998468

• le vin viné, c'est-à-dire le produit:

  wine fortified for distillation, that is to say, a product:

  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 3007039

according

Used about 17 165 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 6 023 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 921 · UN documents ≈ 9 222).

• Aux dires de son Président, la Commission serait en mesure de le faire.

  According to its President, it is in a position to do so.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 80

• Aux dires du plaignant, l'offre en question était constituée des éléments suivants:

  According to complainant 3, the claimed offer consisted of:

  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 3792610

• Aux dires de trafiquants, le minerai appartenait à Lubamba (voir par. 163).

  According to smugglers, these minerals belonged to Mr. Lubamba (see para. 163).

  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 26793074

• En effet, ces animaux sont pour eux, selon leurs dires, ce que la viande est pour nous.

  Indeed, these animals are, according to them, like beef to us.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 928464

• Mesure 1: garantie à l'exportation constituée avant la privatisation, mais qui, aux dires de l'Allemagne, n'a jamais été utilisée.

  Measure 1: An export guarantee granted before privatisation which, according to Germany, was never called.

  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 789191

said

Used about 6 422 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 389 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 54 · parliamentary ≈ 3 833 · UN documents ≈ 2 128). Meaning: said in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est ce que je viens de dire.

  That's just what I said.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Salutlolo and CK · checked, community translation · #3496590 #7857568

• --Jurer? dit-elle, qu'est-ce que cela veut dire?

  “Swear!” said she, “what does that mean?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19088

• Balaam répondit à Dieu: Balak, fils de Tsippor, roi de Moab, les a envoyés pour me dire:

  Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 22:10

• Les dires de M. Lewandowski ne sont pas tout à fait exacts.

  What Mr Lewandowski has said is quite inaccurate.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 677541

• Pedro Remón Rodríguez a confirmé les dires de Posada Carriles.

  49. Pedro Ramón Rodríguez corroborated what Posada Carriles had said.

  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 8571044

tell

Used about 3 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 480 · literary ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 1 643). Meaning: tell in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai essayé de lui dire.

  I tried to tell him.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CH · checked, community translation · #3908391 #9706784

• À vrai dire, ni l'un ni l'autre n'avaient dormi.

  To tell the truth, neither of them slept.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11169

• J’ai encore beaucoup de choses à vous dire, mais vous ne pouvez pas les porter maintenant.

  “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 16:12

• Je vais vous le dire, cela se passera exactement de la même façon.

  I tell you, it will happen in just the same way.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 915683

• Vous pouvez tout me dire.

  You can tell me anything.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1841510 #1845667

More sentences

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

• Elles l'ont accusé de dire un mensonge.

  They accused him of telling a lie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #305523 #1364066

• Mon père étudie l'astronomie, c'est-à-dire la science qui étudie les étoiles.

  My father studies astronomy, ie the science of stars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and mollydot · checked, community translation · #12896906 #12965463

• Que penses-tu qu'il voulait dire par là ?

  What do you think he meant by that?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #291474 #1367563

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