mesure — French to English

How French mesure 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: mesure (372 710), mesures (1 060 343). By style: everyday 385 · literary 14 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 70 997 · legal and administrative 238 094 · UN documents 1 123 488.

measure

Used about 637 956 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 144 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 40 · parliamentary ≈ 32 540 · legal and administrative ≈ 148 809 · UN documents ≈ 456 417). Forms: measure, measures. Meaning: measure in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Comment mesures-tu cela ?

  How do you measure that?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · #6681854 #8352841

• Ils se considérèrent un moment dans cette pénombre, comme s'ils se prenaient mesure.

  They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though taking each other’s measure.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28083

• Comblez donc la mesure de vos pères.

  Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 23:32

• Il s'agit d'une mesure cruciale.

  This is a crucial measure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 356058

• Mesure du débattement des gouvernes;

  Measure of controls deflection;

  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 4671541

able

Used about 31 413 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · parliamentary ≈ 2 958 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 960 · UN documents ≈ 23 406). Meaning: able in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Vous ne seriez pas en mesure de le dire.

  You wouldn't be able to tell.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2426506 #2426507

• Une devise doit être stable et nous devons être en mesure de prouver sa stabilité.

  A currency must be stable and we must be able to demonstrate its stability.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1795827

• Il convient que les exploitants d’aéronefs qui souhaitent continuer à se conformer à ces exigences soient en mesure de le faire.

  Aircraft operators who wish to continue to comply with those requirements should be able to do so.

  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 2803993

• Le Gouvernement espère dès lors être en mesure de fournir au Comité des données pertinentes utiles à l ' avenir.

  The Government therefore hoped to be able to provide the Committee with useful relevant data in future.

  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 17017008

• Sera-t-il en mesure de venir demain ?

  Will he be able to come tomorrow?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #68116 #483948

take

Used about 22 860 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 698 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 440 · UN documents ≈ 11 703). Meaning: take in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Veuillez prendre les mesures nécessaires.

  Please take the necessary steps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13429902 #13429892

• Cent mesures d’huile, répondit-il. Et il lui dit: Prends ton billet, assieds-toi vite, et écris cinquante.

  He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 16:6

• Il s'agit d'une mesure radicale mais nous répondons ainsi à ce que disait à juste titre M. Dankert.

  This is a radical step to take, but it is our response to what Mr Dankert so rightly said.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1744387

• Aux fins du calcul mentionné au paragraphe 1, les établissements prennent les mesures suivantes:

  For the purposes of the calculation referred to in paragraph 1, institutions shall take the following steps:

  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 3320335

• Il est primordial que les États Membres prennent contre les changements climatiques des mesures propres à renforcer la sécurité et le système multilatéral.

  79. It is critical that Member States take action to address climate change in ways that bolster security and strengthen the multilateral system.

  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 19879905

More sentences

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

• Je recommande l'élimination de cette phrase au bout de deux semaines, dans la mesure où personne ne s'y oppose.

  I recommend that this sentence be deleted after two weeks, as long as there is no objection by then.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and patgfisher · checked, community translation · #3029083 #4660107

• Elle affirme être en mesure de voir à travers les murs.

  She says that she can see through walls.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #2020403 #2022305

• Dans une certaine mesure, je suis d'accord avec ce que tu dis.

  I agree with what you say to some extent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #67182 #457137

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