esprit — French to English

How French esprit 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: esprit (75 042), esprits (1 824). By style: everyday 433 · literary 115 · biblical 536 · parliamentary 10 216 · legal and administrative 1 214 · UN documents 64 352.

mind

Used about 36 737 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 198 · literary ≈ 66 · parliamentary ≈ 4 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 146 · UN documents ≈ 32 176). Forms: mind, minds. Meaning: mind in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom a perdu l'esprit.

  Tom lost his mind.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · #5103530 #1697013

• Machine faite d'esprit.

  A machine made of mind.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19265

• Nos esprits doivent s’ouvrir.

  We all need to open our minds.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 778647

• Il convient de garder à l’esprit la population cible spécifique et les populations exposées au produit par ailleurs.

  The specific target population and the populations otherwise exposed to the product should be kept in mind.

  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 2821989

• Ils ont conquis nos coeurs et nos esprits.

  They captured our hearts; they captured our minds.

  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 8911613

spirit

Used about 22 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 72 · literary ≈ 25 · biblical ≈ 472 · parliamentary ≈ 1 703 · legal and administrative ≈ 388 · UN documents ≈ 19 440). Forms: spirit, spirits. Meaning: spirit in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Crois-tu aux esprits ?

  Do you believe in spirits?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #4049004 #890082

• On est tout bêtement un garçon d'esprit.

  One simply behaves like a fellow of spirit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22597

• Les esprits des prophètes sont soumis aux prophètes;

  The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:32

• Nous devons aujourd'hui continuer les réformes dans le même esprit.

  We must now continue the reforms in the same spirit.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 922242

• Cl acide noir 2, esprit soluble de nigrosine sulfoné

  CI acid black 2, sulfonated nigrosine spirit soluble

  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 793224

More sentences

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

• Une merveilleuse idée me vint à l'esprit.

  A wonderful idea occurred to me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #273933 #129011

• Rousseau était fou, mais influent; Hume était sain d'esprit, mais n'avait pas de disciples.

  Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #714763 #870572

• Je n'ai pas votre esprit.

  I don't have your wit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2276063 #2502818

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