longue — French to English

How French longue 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: longue (44 303), longues (12 759). By style: everyday 362 · literary 40 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 5 773 · legal and administrative 4 843 · UN documents 46 014.

long

Used about 38 935 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 309 · literary ≈ 35 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 4 089 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 288 · UN documents ≈ 30 197). Forms: long, longer. Meaning: long in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La nuit a été longue.

  The night was long.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · #2833986 #552986

• L'attente ne fut pas longue.

  They had not long to wait.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25922

• La guerre que soutint Josué contre tous ces rois fut de longue durée.

  Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 11:18

• Ils sont les chômeurs de longue durée de demain.

  They are the long-term unemployed of tomorrow.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 422291

• Malade de longue durée ou invalide

  Long term sick or disabled

  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 652871

term

Used about 60 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 60). Meaning: term in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ces projets sont d'ailleurs plus tournés vers la communauté scientifique, parce qu'ils sont à valeur ajoutée européenne et de plus longue durée.

  These projects are, moreover, more geared towards the scientific community, because they have a European added value and they are projects for the longer term.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 195876

More sentences

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

• La longue période de paix cachait les signes précurseurs d'une explosion.

  The lengthy peace hid the early signs of an explosion.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lovasoa and Scott · checked, community translation · #407004 #4741562

• Le suicide est une des causes majeures de décès dans le pays à la plus longue espérance de vie.

  Suicide is a leading cause of death in the country with the longest life expectancy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and kotobaboke · checked, community translation · #373256 #373258

• C'est la plus longue rue de la ville.

  This is the longest street in town.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and sundown · checked, community translation · #10666088 #3230447

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