grande — French to English

How French grande 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: grande (239 168), grandes (95 636). By style: everyday 1 347 · literary 152 · biblical 491 · parliamentary 38 784 · legal and administrative 17 899 · UN documents 276 131.

major

Used about 37 870 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 2 020 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 305 · UN documents ≈ 34 516). 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 #10765066

• Le 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 1494856

• Toutes 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 1357579

• Seront-ils associés aux décisions des grandes institutions sociales?

  Will young people have a place at the decision-making levels of major institutions of society?

  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 5767530

• Toutes les grandes économies doivent prendre leurs responsabilités si nous voulons éviter les conséquences dangereuses du changement climatique.

  All major economies must step up to the plate if we are to avoid the dangerous consequences of climate change.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #3651021 #11077045

large

Used about 37 002 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 196 · literary ≈ 26 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 5 656 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 221 · UN documents ≈ 25 887). Meaning: large in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom a une grande famille.

  Tom has got a large family.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zaghawa and CK · checked, community translation · #5621863 #1967946

• Une 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 30950

• Voyez 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 6:11

• Une grande partie de la nourriture est exportée de ces pays vers le marché européen.

  A large amount of food is exported into the European market from such countries.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 863307

• Grandes 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 27 413 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 239 · literary ≈ 63 · biblical ≈ 358 · parliamentary ≈ 6 060 · legal and administrative ≈ 559 · UN documents ≈ 20 135). 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 #1650382

• Son 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 25709

• C’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 6:6

• Cette espérance, elle est née des grandes tragédies du XXe siècle.

  This hope was born of the great tragedies of the 20th century.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 991155

• Le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d’Irlande du Nord est destinataire de la présente décision.

  This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

  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 785847

big

Used about 8 122 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 337 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 020 · UN documents ≈ 5 753). Meaning: big in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai de grandes mains.

  I have big hands.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mela and Lindoula · checked, community translation · #3626582 #2825898

• Les grandes grandes, au-dessus de dix ans,--l'appelaient Agathoclès.

  The big big girls—those over ten years of age—called her Agathocles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10554

• Et, 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 16:4

• Cela constituerait une victoire pour les citoyens ordinaires vis-à-vis des grandes entreprises.

  This would be a victory for ordinary citizens against big business.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 226345

• Du fait du phénomène de concentration qui caractérise le marché des journaux payants, ces journaux ont de plus en plus souvent pour origine de grandes maisons d ' édition.

  As a result of the concentration taking place in the newspaper market, the production of these newspapers is increasing in the hands of big publishing houses.

  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 20756770

More sentences

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

• UBS est la plus grande banque en gestion de fortune d’Europe.

  UBS is the largest bank in private wealth management in Europe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Danquebec and Danquebec · checked, community translation · #1466039 #1466040

• Ta fille est grande.

  Your daughter is tall.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #6484268 #5235176

• La France semble pencher à gauche, la Grande-Bretagne à droite.

  France seems to be swinging left - Britain to the right.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #34177 #533895

Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: French grammar · English grammar · translating between English and French · translating from French · translating into English.

About these examples

Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. Submit a better translation or example.

This page as Markdown: https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/fr-en/grande/