légères — French to English

How French légères is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: légères (31 729). By style: everyday 10 · literary 1 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 340 · legal and administrative 974 · UN documents 30 402.

arms

Used about 23 062 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 78 · legal and administrative ≈ 183 · UN documents ≈ 22 802). Meaning: arms in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il nous faut reprendre les travaux sur le trafic des armes légères.

  We must resume our work on light arms trafficking.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 239602

• Armes légères et de petit calibre

  Small Arms and Light Weapons

  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 2771833

• Résolution sur les armes légères et de petit calibre

  Resolution on small arms and light weapons

  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 25329856

• L'Union européenne s'est engagée à lutter contre l'accumulation déstabilisatrice d'armes légères dans de nombreuses parties du monde.

  The European Union is committed to combating the destabilising accumulation of small arms in many parts of the world.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 99293

• Armes légères et de petit calibre et autres armes conventionnelles

  Small arms and light weapons and other conventional weapons

  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 269795

slight

Used about 3 998 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 35 · legal and administrative ≈ 162 · UN documents ≈ 3 800). Meaning: slight in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La Commission peut appuyer une grande partie des amendements proposés, certains avec des légères modifications.

  The Commission can support the majority of the amendments proposed, some with slight modifications.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 298615

• de légères marques superficielles de pression.

  slight superficial pressure marks.

  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 1627606

• - de très légères anomalies de coloration.

  - very slight defects of colouring

  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 7536576

• Pour ce qui est de la Tunisie, les prétextes avancés dans la résolution sont minces et les preuves légères.

  As far as Tunisia is concerned, the pretexts put forward in the motion for a resolution are flimsy and the evidence slight.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1745239

• de légères meurtrissures ne dépassant pas une surface de 2 cm2.

  slight bruising not exceeding 2 cm2 in area.

  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 4923581

light

Used about 1 649 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 365 · UN documents ≈ 1 267). Meaning: light in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'aime les chaussures légères.

  I like light shoes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cocorico and shekitten · checked, community translation · #257166 #6596

• Car nos légères afflictions du moment présent produisent pour nous, au-delà de toute mesure, un poids éternel de gloire,

  For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 4:17

• Ils ont le droit de savoir que les appellations légères et mild sont trompeuses.

  They have a right to know that "light" and "mild" branding is misleading.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 58791

• Huiles légères et préparations

  Light oils and preparations:

  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 187454

• 2. Dissipateurs de chaleur et leurs composants fabriqués en matières légères et à haute capacité thermique;

  Heat sinks and components therefor, fabricated of light-weight, high heat capacity materials;

  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 23206862

small

Used about 688 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 · UN documents ≈ 633). Meaning: small in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les procédures pourraient ainsi être plus rapides et, surtout dans le cas de faibles subventions, plus légères.

  This could make procedures less protracted and – particularly in the case of small grants – less burdensome.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 786004

• Il faut constater que la part des importations en provenance de pays tiers est restée stable, malgré quelques variations légères de l’ordre de 1 %.

  It has to be noted that the share of imports from third countries remained stable with small variations in the range of 1 %.

  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 2185573

• Moyennant quelques légères modifications, notre délégation pourrait l ' approuver dans les meilleurs délais.

  With some small amendments, our delegation could agree to it rapidly.

  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 22005810

• Par conséquent, nous avons également voté contre les amendements qui interdisent la mise sur le marché de médicaments génériques en protégeant de légères modifications dans le médicament d'origine.

  Therefore, we also voted against the amendments which obstruct the placing on the market of generic medicinal products by protecting small changes in the original medicine.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 379093

• L'enquête a toutefois révélé que la part de marché de l'industrie de l'Union n'a connu que de très légères variations au cours de la période considérée.

  The investigation has however revealed that the Union industry's market share has seen very small changes in the period considered.

  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 1963043

weapons

Used about 675 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 21 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 · UN documents ≈ 633).

• Commerce sans contrôle d'armes légères

  Uncontrolled trade in light weapons

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 175147

• Présentation par l'expert du PECASED des résultats de l'évaluation régionale à l'unité des armes légères.

  Presentation by the PCASED expert to the Light Weapons Unit of the results of the regional evaluation.

  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 409730

• Les liens qui existent entre le terrorisme et l ' accumulation d ' armes légères et de petit calibre ont été évoqués dans diverses instances internationales.

  The link between terrorism and such weapons has been referred to by several international forums.

  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 3354408

• B5-0189/2001, de M. Van den Berg, au nom du groupe PSE, sur le commerce sans contrôle d' armes légères ;

  B5-0189/2001 by Mr Van den Berg, on behalf of the PSE Group: uncontrolled trade in small and light weapons;

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 175149

• L' ordre du jour appelle en discussion commune cinq propositions de résolution sur le commerce sans contrôle d' armes légères :

  The next item is the joint debate on five motions for resolutions on the uncontrolled trade in light weapons:

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 175148

illicit

Used about 28 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 28).

• En effet, seul un approvisionnement constant en munitions permet aux armes légères et de petit calibre illicites de continuer à faire des ravages.

  After all, only a steady supply of ammunition enables illicit small arms and light weapons to continue to wreak havoc.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 673761

• La Commission attache une grande importance à la conférence qu'organiseront en 2001 les Nations unies sur les armes de petit calibre et les armes légères.

  The Commission attaches great importance to the 2001 UN Conference on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 99303

• Nous sommes tout à fait favorables à la mise en œuvre de la stratégie de 2005 de l'UE contre le commerce illicite des armes légères et de petit calibre.

  We are fully engaged in the implementation of the 2005 EU strategy against the illicit spread of small arms and light weapons.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 944488

• L’une de ces stratégies est le programme d’action des Nations unies en vue de prévenir, combattre et éliminer le commerce illicite des armes légères sous tous ses aspects.

  The United Nations programme of action to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects is one such strategy.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 673744

More sentences

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

• Ces filles portent des tenues légères.

  These girls are wearing skimpy clothes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1637157 #13417811

• Elle est considérée comme une mère aux mœurs légères, indigne d'élever sa fille.

  She is perceived as a promiscuous mother, unworthy of raising her daughter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · #12614156 #12614163

• Elle est de mœurs légères.

  She's sexually promiscuous.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1668643 #1669425

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