fins — French to English

How French fins 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: fins (257 502). By style: everyday 33 · literary 3 · parliamentary 3 669 · legal and administrative 63 714 · UN documents 190 083.

purposes

Used about 147 206 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 758 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 476 · UN documents ≈ 102 962). Forms: purpose, purposes.

• Cette salle est utilisée à diverses fins.

  This room is used for various purposes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #57337 #12320485

• La cause en est que les portions inutiles aux fins du CCR ne seront pas traduites.

  That is because the areas which are not useful for the purposes of the CFR will not be translated.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1120010

• Aux fins du présent protocole, on entend par:

  For the purpose of this Protocol,

  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 2766538

• h) Aux fins suivantes:

  (h) For the purpose of:

  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 13480569

• Pour toutes fins pratiques, ce mot est obsolète.

  For all practical purposes, that word is obsolete.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #6994467 #8751259

use

Used about 18 650 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 153 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 655 · UN documents ≈ 15 840). Forms: use, used. Meaning: use in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il est interdit d'utiliser ces informations à des fins commerciales.

  It's forbidden to use this information commercially.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and eastasiastudent · checked, community translation · #1269314 #1269317

• Une meilleure coordination et une plus grande flexibilité sont nécessaires aux fins d'une utilisation exhaustive de cette ressource limitée.

  Better coordination and a greater level of flexibility are necessary in order to make full use of this limited resource.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1133369

• Les quotas de substances réglementées pouvant être utilisées en laboratoire et à des fins d’analyse sont attribués à:

  The quota of controlled substances which may be used for laboratory and analytical uses, are allocated to:

  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 2547237

• 19. La réparation est effectivement exécutée lorsque les marchandises, une fois réparées, sont propres aux fins convenues.

  19. Repair is effectively executed when after repair the goods can be used as agreed.

  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 11701457

• Sami a lutté contre un problème majeur : l'usage de drogues à des fins récréatives.

  Sami struggled with a major issue: recreational drug use.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · #6715442 #12880100

fine

Used about 5 313 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 310). Meaning: fine in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ziri avait les traits fins.

  Ziri had fine features.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · #10315848 #12481992

• La chandelle faisait saillir les angles farouches et fins de son visage.

  The candle brought out the fierce and the fine angles of his countenance.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17146

• Poils fins ou grossiers, non cardés ni peignés

  Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed

  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 3694177

• Sa petite tête blonde, à chaque mouvement du bateau, faisait en arrière un mouvement brusque et joli qui soulevait sur les tempes ses fins cheveux.

  Her fair head went back with an engaging little jerk every time the boat moved forward, making the fine wayward hairs flutter about her temples.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 142

• Tissus de laine cardée ou de poils fins cardés

  Woven fabrics of carded wool or carded fine animal hair

  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 2420096

ends

Used about 4 192 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 229 · UN documents ≈ 3 960).

• Pour parvenir à ses fins, elle recourt à la séduction.

  To achieve her ends, she resorts to seduction.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and LimeGreenTeknii · checked, community translation · #10278758 #13068607

• Il se peut même que le contraire se produise, si les stéréotypes économiques deviennent des fins en soi et créent de nouveaux problèmes.

  Even the opposite might happen, with the economic stereotypes which are ends in themselves creating new problems.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419819

• L ' invocation, par de nombreuses délégations, de fins politiques pour justifier le mandat du Rapporteur spécial n ' a fait que les discréditer.

  The justification of the Special Rapporteur ' s mandate by many delegations for political ends merely discredited them.

  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 27342248

• L'énergie atomique peut être utilisée à des fins pacifiques.

  Atomic energy can be used for peaceful ends.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and papabear · checked, community translation · #707201 #136067

• Le Premier ministre turc utilise le processus d’adhésion à l’UE à des fins qui lui sont propres et tente d’islamiser le pays de manière détournée.

  The Prime Minister of Turkey is using the EU process for his own ends and attempting to Islamise the country by stealth.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 854875

More sentences

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

• Une aubaine ! Pour les fins connaisseurs !

  A bargain! For the true connoisseur!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #848323 #9816571

• Les murs sont très fins.

  The walls are very thin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2571305 #7125036

• Elle est finalement arrivée à ses fins.

  She has finally achieved her goal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BigMouse and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #311608 #1591154

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