Elamur Translategrand — French to English
How French grand 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: grand (145 128), grande (239 168), grandes (95 636), grands (81 484). By style: everyday 3 736 · literary 407 · biblical 1 020 · parliamentary 66 351 · legal and administrative 30 191 · UN documents 459 711.
major
Used about 92 627 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · parliamentary ≈ 6 566 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 201 · UN documents ≈ 83 801). Meaning: major in the Elamur Dictionary.
La Grande Ourse ressemble à une louche.
Ursa Major looks like a dipper.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #10008004 #10765066Le secteur public a financé les mesures de sauvetage des grandes banques.
The public has financed the rescue packages for the major banks.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494856Toutes les grandes banques tchèques sont concernées.
They cover all the major Czech banks.
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 1357579Ces grands programmes étaient les suivants:
These major programmes comprised:
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 24915666La défense Caro-Kann (1. e4 c6) est une ouverture utilisée par les grands maîtres du monde entier.
The Caro-Kann defense (1. e4 c6) is an opening used by major Grand Masters around the world.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10283108 #10283153
large
Used about 69 433 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 350 · literary ≈ 42 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 8 639 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 705 · UN documents ≈ 52 675). Meaning: large in the Elamur Dictionary.
C'est grand comment ?
How large is it?
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1891427 #1891793Une glace assez grande.
The mirror is quite large.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30950Voyez avec quelles grandes lettres je vous ai écrit de ma propre main.
See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 6:11L'investissement dans les grands projets est simplifié.
Investment in large projects is being simplified.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1374249Grandes entreprises non financières
Large non-financial enterprises
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 4005184
great
Used about 60 543 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 564 · literary ≈ 172 · biblical ≈ 653 · parliamentary ≈ 14 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 887 · UN documents ≈ 43 098). Meaning: great in the Elamur Dictionary.
La peur est une grande motivation.
Fear is a great motivator.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dimitris and dimitris · checked, community translation · #1650379 #1650382Son autorité était grande.
His authority was great.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25709C’est, en effet, une grande source de gain que la piété avec le contentement;
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 6:6La Bulgarie a fait de grands pas en avant ces dernières années.
Bulgaria has made great strides in recent years.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 387327Prime sur Grands Lacs (EUR/t)
Great Lakes premium (EUR/t)
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 758285
big
Used about 10 809 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 837 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 2 765 · UN documents ≈ 7 183). Meaning: big in the Elamur Dictionary.
Tu as un grand nez.
You have a big nose.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · #1898983 #1898979--Je veux le grand fusil, répondit Gavroche.
“I want a big gun,” replied Gavroche.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24484Et, levant les yeux, elles aperçurent que la pierre, qui était très grande, avait été roulée.
for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 16:4Deux grands chefs de l'Union européenne se contredisent donc directement.
So we have two big chiefs within the European Union directly contradicting each other.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1532519La promotion du respect du droit par tous les États, grands et petits, servirait les intérêts de l ' ensemble de la communauté internationale.
Promotion of respect for the rule of law by all States, big and small, would serve the interest of the international community as a whole.
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 2616735
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Tom est plus grand et plus gros que moi.
Tom is taller and fatter than me.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · #6847847 #6847010L'arbre était si grand qu'il dépassait le mur du jardin.
The tree was so tall that it towered over the garden wall.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Catriona · checked, community translation · #5144323 #3704416Même le plus grand des érudits ne peut pas résoudre cela.
Even the greatest scholar can't solve that.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #36589 #1409523
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