histoire — French to English

How French histoire 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: histoire (33 461), histoires (989). By style: everyday 1 101 · literary 45 · parliamentary 6 453 · legal and administrative 293 · UN documents 26 558.

history

Used about 15 279 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · literary ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 2 756 · legal and administrative ≈ 217 · UN documents ≈ 12 172). Forms: histories, history. Meaning: history in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu t'intéresses à l'histoire ?

  You're interested in history?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and tieguy · checked, community translation · #11618529 #6620851

• Il faut bien que nous le disions, puisque ceci est de l'histoire.

  We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24050

• Cette année encore, l’histoire se répète.

  History is repeating itself again this year.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541212

• Maison de l’histoire européenne

  House of European History

  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 3772375

• C ' est sur ceux-ci que l ' histoire nous jugera.

  History will judge us by 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 14791551

story

Used about 12 737 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 872 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 2 151 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 · UN documents ≈ 9 683). Forms: stories, story. Meaning: story in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'histoire semble vraie.

  The story seems true.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alexmarcelo and CK · checked, community translation · #2394484 #1573082

• La voyageuse raconta son histoire, un peu modifiée:

  The traveller told her story, with slight modifications.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3357

• Leurs histoires sont épouvantables.

  Their stories are horrific.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1435823

• une poupée représentant un être humain, vêtue d’un costume rappelant l’histoire racontée dans le livre.

  a doll representing a human being, wearing an outfit corresponding to the story described in the book.

  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 1223013

• A. Histoires présentant un intérêt humain

  A. Human interest stories

  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 28190466

More sentences

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

• Au cours de sa longue tirade, Poutine a affirmé que l'Ukraine était un accident de l'histoire.

  Over the course of his screed, Putin claimed that Ukraine is a historic accident.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and shekitten · checked, community translation · #10782268 #10782278

• Ils s'émerveillèrent devant les ruines chargées d'histoire du temple.

  They marveled at the storied ruins of the temple.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and rul · checked, community translation · #12607480 #12607481

• Pourquoi en font-ils tous toute une histoire?

  Why's everybody acting like this is such a big deal?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · #7985492 #6536307

Grammar

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