lumière — French to English

How French lumière 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: lumière (58 024), lumières (526). By style: everyday 536 · literary 87 · biblical 157 · parliamentary 4 263 · legal and administrative 8 844 · UN documents 44 663.

light

Used about 40 209 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 497 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 145 · parliamentary ≈ 2 043 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 738 · UN documents ≈ 30 706). Forms: light, lights. Meaning: light in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La lumière s'est allumée.

  The light went on.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · #279870 #623440

• La lumière avait disparu.

  The light had disappeared.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4631

• Dieu dit: Que la lumière soit! Et la lumière fut.

  God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 1:3

• L’un a ouvert les lumières et l’autre a souffert dans l’ombre.

  One of them opened up the light and the other suffered in the shadows.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755188

• Intensité de la lumière émise

  Intensity of light emitted

  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 5456242

enlightenment

Used about 3 768 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 977 · UN documents ≈ 2 791). Meaning: enlightenment in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il en va de même pour l'humanisme et pour les Lumières.

  The same is true of humanism and enlightenment.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1165891

• Œuvrons à une nouvelle période des Lumières, celle de l ' unité de l ' Organisation des Nations Unies.

  Let us work towards a new enlightenment, the unity of the United Nations.

  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 13146433

• L'Europe des lumières, des valeurs, de la dignité, manque de cohérence politique.

  The Europe of Enlightenment, of values, of dignity, lacks policy coherence.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1073569

• Il est pourtant la traduction de l ' idéal des Lumières et il convient de le faire progresser, car les échéances pressent.

  However, it was the reflection of an Enlightenment ideal and should be fostered because time was running out.

  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 8135705

• Je veux parler de principes et de valeurs qui sont ceux du "siècle des lumières", comme l'affirmation du primat de la raison.

  I am talking about principles and values which come from the Enlightenment and which affirm the supremacy of reason.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 21141

More sentences

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

• La canopée bloque la lumière du soleil.

  The canopy blocks the sunlight.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Teangloir · checked, community translation · #12851865 #13024536

• Les plantes croissent en direction de la lumière.

  Plants grow towards sunlight.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2488942 #3645829

• Les panneaux solaires prennent la lumière du Soleil et de la Lune et la transforment en électricité ou en chaleur.

  Solar panels take sun and moonlight and transform them into electricity or heat.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and tieguy · checked, community translation · #13815996 #1257865

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