mais — French to English

How French mais is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: mais (705 994). By style: everyday 4 775 · literary 757 · biblical 2 419 · parliamentary 163 233 · legal and administrative 51 348 · UN documents 483 462.

but

Used about 573 567 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 377 · literary ≈ 678 · biblical ≈ 1 865 · parliamentary ≈ 115 623 · legal and administrative ≈ 48 139 · UN documents ≈ 402 885). Meaning: but in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le bois flotte, mais le fer coule.

  Wood floats, but iron sinks.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #323632 #1342459

• Mais c'était une manie.

  But it was a mania of his.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7508

• Mais leurs yeux étaient empêchés de le reconnaître.

  But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 24:16

• Mais il ne suffit pas seulement d'agir de la sorte.

  But that alone is not enough.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1971065

• 80 % ou plus, mais moins de 90 %:

  80 % or more, but less than 90 %:

  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 519678

not

Used about 21 739 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 199 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 20 404 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 070). Meaning: not in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Spider-Man est cool. Mais les araignées... non, pas du tout.

  Spider-Man is cool. Spiders are NOT.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · #397821 #397820

• --Rue Plumet! tu dis rue plumet?--Voyons donc!--N'y a-t-il pas une caserne par là?--Mais oui, c'est ça.

  “The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?—Let us see!—Are there not barracks in that vicinity?—Why, yes, that’s it.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22572

• que les femmes se taisent dans les assemblées, car il ne leur est pas permis d’y parler; mais qu’elles soient soumises, selon que le dit aussi la loi.

  Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:34

• Je ne suis pas partisane de la publicité, mais je suis pour l’information.

  I am not in favour of advertising; I am, however, in favour of information.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 536938

• fumés, même cuits avant ou pendant le fumage mais non autrement préparés

  Smoked, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process, not otherwise prepared

  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 179079

also

Used about 13 523 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 3 401 · UN documents ≈ 10 072). Meaning: also in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Mais pardonne mon péché pour cette fois seulement; et priez l’Éternel, votre Dieu, afin qu’il éloigne de moi encore cette plaie mortelle.

  Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the LORD your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 10:17

• Mais je veux dire aussi que nous avons encore beaucoup à faire pour favoriser la démocratisation de l'OMC.

  I also believe, though, that there is still more that we can do to make the WTO more democratic.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 271201

• Il importait en outre que tout fluide réfrigérant de substitution présente de meilleures qualités de réfrigération et de chauffage que le R404A mais aussi une meilleure efficacité énergétique.

  It was also important that any replacement refrigerants matched or improved on current refrigeration and heating capacities as well as on energy efficiency.

  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 29778286

More sentences

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

• Mais où es-tu donc allé la nuit dernière ?

  Where on earth did you go last night?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CM · checked, community translation · #244817 #8556789

• Nous vivons tous sous le même soleil, mais nous n'avons pas le même horizon.

  We all live under the same sun, yet we don't share the same horizon.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and verymuchso · checked, community translation · #7079772 #7078347

• Mais je me souviendrai de mon alliance avec toi au temps de ta jeunesse, et j’établirai avec toi une alliance éternelle.

  Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:60

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