leur — French to English

How French leur 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: leur (1 270 928), leures (1), leurs (873 976). By style: everyday 3 057 · literary 308 · biblical 3 719 · parliamentary 114 597 · legal and administrative 184 567 · UN documents 1 838 657.

their

Used about 1 312 818 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 388 · literary ≈ 234 · biblical ≈ 2 673 · parliamentary ≈ 68 042 · legal and administrative ≈ 121 122 · UN documents ≈ 1 118 358).

• Ce n’est pas leur faute.

  It's not their fault.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CM · checked, community translation · #2440057 #2445343

• C'est leur jour de sortie.

  It is their day to go out.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18583

• Leur bouche est pleine de malédiction et d’amertume;

  “Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:14

• Il va sans dire que leur histoire est horrible.

  Their stories are, of course, horrible.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1452465

• Imides et leurs dérivés; sels de ces produits

  Imides and their derivatives; salts thereof

  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 197896

they

Used about 108 681 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 159 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 5 969 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 690 · UN documents ≈ 94 776). Meaning: they in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quels sont leurs noms ?

  What are they called?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ricardo14 and CK · checked, community translation · #4496272 #3620832

• C'était la première fois, depuis le commencement de leur ménage, qu'elle osait critiquer un acte du maître.

  It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had dared to criticise one of the master’s acts.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9163

• Le soleil et la lune s’arrêtent dans leur demeure, A la lumière de tes flèches qui partent, A la clarté de ta lance qui brille.

  The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HAB 3:11

• Je leur dis qu'ils doivent faire abstraction des détails techniques.

  To these people I would say that they should not let technicalities stand in the way.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1380066

• elles traitent leurs clients équitablement et sans discrimination;

  they shall treat clients fairly and without discrimination;

  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 2191823

them

Used about 29 682 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 318 · literary ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 814 · parliamentary ≈ 9 550 · UN documents ≈ 18 955). Meaning: them in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Leur as-tu répondu ?

  Did you reply to them?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and sundown · checked, community translation · #10744302 #1243536

• --Qu'est-ce que tu leur diras?

  “What will you say to them?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18635

• Je leur répondis: La parole de l’Éternel m’a été adressée, en ces mots:

  Then I said to them, “The LORD’s word came to me, saying,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 24:20

• Nous pourrions leur enseigner une chose ou l’autre à cet égard.

  We could teach them a thing or two in this respect.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 848984

• Dans un certain nombre de cas, plusieurs organismes de coordination ont été créés, mais leur collaboration est inégale et pas toujours efficace.

  In a number of cases, multiple coordinating bodies have been established, but the collaboration between them is uneven and not always effective.

  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 27409229

children

Used about 20 149 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 194 · UN documents ≈ 18 955).

• Sans un environnement intact, ni nous-mêmes ni nos enfants, ni leurs enfants n'auront l'avenir que nous souhaitons.

  Without a healthy environment, neither we nor our children and children's children have the future we all want.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1127897

• f) Les enfants privés de leur milieu familial (art. 20);

  (f) Children deprived of a family environment (art. 20);

  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 21177595

More sentences

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

• Les étudiants sont affairés à préparer leur examen.

  The students are busy preparing for the test.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and Akenaseryan · checked, community translation · #5516573 #5488694

• La compagnie exploitait ses travailleurs en leur payant un salaire très bas.

  The company exploited its workers through low wages.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Ivan24 · checked, community translation · #22380 #409115

• Les préparatifs battent leur plein.

  Preparations are in full swing.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and viorel · checked, community translation · #6061745 #10727094

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