inférieure — French to English

How French inférieure 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: inférieure (39 693), inférieures (10 018). By style: everyday 13 · literary 7 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 805 · legal and administrative 21 264 · UN documents 27 617.

less

Used about 22 161 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 193 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 183 · UN documents ≈ 9 781). Meaning: less in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les couloirs ne doivent pas avoir une largeur inférieure à deux mètres.

  Corridors should be no less than two meters wide.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10836880 #10836894

• —Bien! partons de ce point alors et comptons quatre jours d'orage, pendant lesquels notre vitesse n'a pas dû être inférieure à quatre-vingts lieues par vingt-quatre heures.

  "Very well," answered my uncle; "let us start from that point and count four days' storm, during which our rate cannot have been less than eighty leagues in the twenty-four hours."

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3268

• La part de chacun des autres pays est égale ou inférieure à 5 %.

  All other countries provide 5% or less each.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1378020

• excédant 0,33 l mais inférieure à 1 l

  More than 0,33 l but less than 1 l

  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 4696456

• Voies inférieures à la classe IV

  Less than class IV

  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 4339216

lower

Used about 11 081 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 101 · UN documents ≈ 7 767). Meaning: lower in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il méprise les personnes de classe sociale inférieure à la sienne.

  He despises people of a lower social class.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CM · checked, community translation · #298999 #5663083

• Les chambres inférieures étaient en effet pleines de matériaux.

  The lower chambers were, in fact, full of materials.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7101

• Or, que signifie: Il est monté, sinon qu’il est aussi descendu dans les régions inférieures de la terre?

  Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 4:9

• La moyenne des taxes HTV d'autres pays européens est dix fois inférieure à celle du Royaume-Uni.

  Other EU countries' average is ten times lower HTV taxes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 146175

• LRI: Infection des voies respiratoires inférieures, autre que la pneumonie

  LRI: Lower respiratory tract infection, other than pneumonia

  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 4520761

below

Used about 4 873 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 134 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 437 · UN documents ≈ 2 301). Meaning: below in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La température est inférieure à zéro aujourd'hui.

  The temperature is below zero today.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #4808283 #7243118

• Les températures actuelles sont inférieures aux maxima des 2000 dernières années.

  Temperatures today are below the maxima of the last 2 000 years.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1082830

• Cette part, qui était inférieure à 15 % en 1995, est aujourd’hui de l’ordre de 25 %.

  The share of diesel cars has risen from up from below 15 % in 1995 to around 25 % now.

  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 807032

• Pérou: Pourcentage de salariés percevant des rémunérations inférieures au minimum

  Peru: Percentage of wage-earners with salaries below the minimum wage

  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 24506598

• Le 28 février, je vous avais indiqué que la croissance devrait être inférieure à 2 % en 1996.

  On 28 February I suggested to you that growth would probably be below 2 % in 1996.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1598373

than

Used about 2 065 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 25 · legal and administrative ≈ 886 · UN documents ≈ 1 151). Meaning: than in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La population de ce pays est inférieure à celle des États-Unis.

  The population of this country is smaller than that of the United States.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and CK · checked, community translation · #59260 #435553

• Je voudrais enfin signaler que la durée du modèle d'utilité est inférieure à celle du brevet.

  Lastly, I should like to point out that the duration of a utility model is shorter than that of a patent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1973111

• Rhum, présenté en récipients d'une contenance excédant 2 l, d'une valeur inférieure ou égale à 2 EUR par litre d'alcool pur

  Rum, in containers holding more than 2 litres, of a value not exceeding EUR 2 per litre of pure alcohol

  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 4319631

• PÉTROLE BRUT (pression de vapeur à 50 °C inférieure ou égale à 110 kPa)

  PETROLEUM CRUDE OIL (vapour pressure at 50 ºC not more than 110 kPa)

  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 12771102

• Vu comme la courbure est inférieure à l'unité, une fois que la courbe quitte le cercle unité, elle n'y reviendra pas.

  Seeing as the curvature is smaller than unity, once the curve leaves the unit circle it will not come back.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · #598840 #598837

More sentences

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

• Le Coran, loin d'être inimitable, est une œuvre littéraire de qualité inférieure, car il n'est ni clair, ni compréhensible, ne possède aucune valeur pratique et n'est certainement pas un livre révélé.

  The Koran, far from being inimitable, is a literary work of inferior quality, as it is neither clear, nor understandable, nor does it possess any practical value and is certainly not a revealed book.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #534536 #534439

• Les Romains utilisaient le pain et les jeux pour apaiser les classes inférieures.

  The Romans used bread and circuses to placate the underclasses.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · #6698052 #11291921

• Et Asaël refusa de se détourner. Sur quoi Abner le frappa au ventre avec l’extrémité inférieure de sa lance, et la lance sortit par derrière. Il tomba et mourut sur place. Tous ceux qui arrivaient au lieu où Asaël était tombé mort, s’y arrêtaient.

  However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 2:23

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