elles — French to English

How French elles is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: elles (438 622). By style: everyday 4 194 · literary 89 · biblical 459 · parliamentary 31 717 · legal and administrative 49 789 · UN documents 352 374.

they

Used about 158 913 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 845 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 277 · parliamentary ≈ 16 519 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 745 · UN documents ≈ 117 458). Meaning: they in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Elles se sont battues.

  They had a fight.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · #2549270 #2931115

• Elles sont du siècle.

  They are of the age.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2667

• Elles furent un sujet d’amertume pour le cœur d’Isaac et de Rebecca.

  They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 26:35

• Elles ont duré tout le déjeuner de travail.

  They took up the whole working lunch.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 626483

• Elles sont dénommées «unités» si le fonds est un trust.

  They are known as units if the fund is a trust.

  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 2573668

are

Used about 42 270 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 175 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 3 304 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 075 · UN documents ≈ 36 706).

• Elles sont toutes différentes.

  All of them are different.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #5066370 #6380927

• Elles sont généralement mauvaises, ces mers de la Chine, exposées à des coups de vent terribles, principalement pendant les équinoxes, et on était encore aux premiers jours de novembre.

  The Chinese seas are usually boisterous, subject to terrible gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes; and it was now early November.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1630

• C’est pourquoi ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Je lève ma main! Ce sont les nations qui vous entourent Qui porteront elles-mêmes leur ignominie.

  Therefore the Lord GOD says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 36:7

• Elles sont doubles. Elles sont d'abord conjoncturelles.

  There are two, the first being the state of the economy.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1630878

• Les règles sont-elles mises à la disposition des citoyens?

  Are the rules publicly available to citizens?

  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 1685859

them

Used about 40 199 times in the texts (literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 86 · parliamentary ≈ 1 322 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 075 · UN documents ≈ 36 706). Meaning: them in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'était pour elles comme le chien.

  She was the same as a dog to them.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8653

• Or, la loi ne procède pas de la foi; mais elle dit: Celui qui mettra ces choses en pratique vivra par elles.

  The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 3:12

• La Commission est même reconnaissante pour ces suggestions et elle mettra tout en uvre pour qu'elles soient adoptées.

  The Commission is in fact grateful for these suggestions and will do all it can to get them adopted.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1860617

• Ces citernes étant «nominalement vides», la quantité de matières dangereuses qu'elles contiennent réellement est, par définition, extrêmement faible.

  As the tanks are ‘nominally empty’, the amount of dangerous goods actually contained in them is by definition extremely small.

  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 545153

• - 15,8 % d ' entre elles travaillent exclusivement ou principalement en dehors de leur ferme;

  15.8% of them worked exclusively or primarily outside their farms;

  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 11848560

also

Used about 24 109 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 10 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 075 · UN documents ≈ 22 023). Meaning: also in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Pourtant, ne nous vantons pas trop haut, les révolutions, elles aussi, se trompent, et de graves méprises se sont vues.

  Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be deceived, and grave errors have been seen.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18137

• Il dit encore cette parabole, en vue de certaines personnes se persuadant qu’elles étaient justes, et ne faisant aucun cas des autres:

  He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:9

• Lorsque d’autres informations contenues dans la fiche produit sont fournies, elles doivent respecter la forme et l’ordre indiqués à l’annexe II.

  Where other information contained in the product fiche is also provided, it shall be in the form and order specified in Annex II.

  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 2195205

• Elles devraient également être intégrées aux plans de relance et aux mesures de soutien de la communauté internationale en faveur des pays en développement à faible revenu.

  This should also be incorporated into stimulus packages and international support to low-income developing countries.

  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 19817597

• Elles estiment en outre que la compensation accordée par la Région n'était conforme ni au règlement (CEE) no 1191/69 ni au règlement (CE) no 1370/2007.

  The Italian authorities also considered that the compensation awarded by the Region neither complied with Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 nor with Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007.

  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 3878901

do

Used about 16 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 175 · parliamentary ≈ 1 322 · UN documents ≈ 14 682). Meaning: do in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les tortues ont-elles des dents ?

  Do turtles have teeth?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and apglopez · checked, community translation · #1356594 #977115

• C'est difficile à comprendre, car depuis quand les routes s'arrêtent-elles aux frontières?

  This is difficult to understand, for when do roads ever stop at national borders?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1103073

• telles qu ' elles ont été reçues. Les désignations utilisées

  The designations employed do not imply the expression

  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 3101046

• Certaines d’entre celles-ci vous intéressent-elles ?

  Do any of these interest you?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #5300493 #11450711

• Je refuse que quiconque pense que les questions débattues ce matin en discussion commune ne sont pas, elles aussi, de la plus haute importance.

  I do not want anybody to think that the issues addressed in the joint debate this morning are not themselves of the utmost importance.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 228727

More sentences

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

• Elles seraient plus pesantes que le sable de la mer; Voilà pourquoi mes paroles vont jusqu’à la folie!

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 6:3

• Il brisa les statues et abattit les idoles, et il remplit d’ossements d’hommes la place qu’elles occupaient.

  He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 23:14

• Tu passeras les barres dans les anneaux sur les côtés de l’arche, pour qu’elles servent à porter l’arche;

  You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 25:14

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