mieux — French to English

How French mieux 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: mieux (165 159). By style: everyday 2 021 · literary 80 · biblical 71 · parliamentary 14 388 · legal and administrative 5 455 · UN documents 143 144.

better

Used about 55 782 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 389 · literary ≈ 58 · biblical ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 7 494 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 046 · UN documents ≈ 44 732). Meaning: better in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est beaucoup mieux.

  This is better by far.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · #61506 #6083212

• Mieux, n'est-ce pas?

  Better, is it not?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30186

• Mieux vaut une réprimande ouverte Qu’une amitié cachée.

  Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 27:5

• Dans ce cas-ci, cet accord vaut mieux que rien du tout.

  In this case, something is better than nothing.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889328

• Le cas échéant, la technologie peut être adaptée afin de mieux répondre aux besoins des institutions.

  Where possible, the technology may be customised so as to better meet the needs of the institutions.

  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 5052470

more

Used about 28 384 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 199 · legal and administrative ≈ 341 · UN documents ≈ 26 840). Meaning: more in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ou, pour mieux dire, je crois bien qu'elle est sortie en effet par la porte de Vesle, mais sortie de ce monde.

  Or, to speak more truly, I believe that she actually did depart by the Porte de Vesle, but departed from this world.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3264

• Je suis persuadée que nous y parviendrons mieux de cette manière.

  I am confident that we shall be more successful in this way.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1005095

• Les États membres ont la faculté de faire procéder à l’adjonction de dénaturants ou d’indicateurs aux vins visés au paragraphe 1 afin de mieux les identifier.

  Member States may have denaturing agents or indicators added to wines as referred to in paragraph 1 in order to make them more easily identifiable.

  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 1862407

• Façon de se placer dans les voies pour être mieux vus par les autres usagers;

  lane positioning so as to be more visible to other users;

  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 17323668

• Au fond, comme il avait de l'esprit et qu'il comparait, Théodule n'avait servi qu'à lui faire mieux regretter Marius.

  In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule had only served to make him regret Marius all the more.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22399

best

Used about 12 851 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 295 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 698 · legal and administrative ≈ 909 · UN documents ≈ 8 947). Meaning: best in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je fais de mon mieux.

  I'm doing my best.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1855213 #1858250

• --Le mieux, là, en honnête homme, c'est que je raccommode la roue et que vous remettiez votre voyage à demain.

  “The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and set out on your journey to-morrow.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5510

• voyez lequel des fils de votre maître est le meilleur et convient le mieux, mettez-le sur le trône de son père, et combattez pour la maison de votre maître!

  select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 10:3

• (EN) Monsieur le Président, ces rapports sont, au mieux, remplis de paradoxes, au pire, pleins d'hypocrisie.

  Mr President, these reports are at best bestrewn with paradoxes and at worst are full of hypocrisy.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1560838

• Indiquer la stratégie qui décrit le mieux celle du FIA

  Indicate the strategy that best describe the AIF’s strategy

  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 2898100

than

Used about 47 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3). Meaning: than in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'action vaut mieux que les mots.

  Actions speak louder than words.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petro1 and CK · checked, community translation · #241136 #8584

• Les expériences sur l'indigo n'avaient pas mieux réussi au Jardin des plantes que dans son jardin d'Austerlitz.

  His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22726

• aimant mieux être maltraité avec le peuple de Dieu que d’avoir pour un temps la jouissance du péché,

  choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 11:25

• mais, dans l’Église, j’aime mieux dire cinq paroles avec mon intelligence, afin d’instruire aussi les autres, que dix mille paroles en langue.

  However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:19

More sentences

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

• Tout va aller pour le mieux.

  Everything's going to be OK.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alexmarcelo and CK · checked, community translation · #953265 #1251937

• Ceux qui nous trahissent le mieux sont toujours ceux qui nous sont les plus proches.

  Those who betray us in the worst way are always those who are dearest to us.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and LinguisticFusion · checked, community translation · #4780282 #4779823

• J'espère sincèrement que les choses vont aller mieux pour vous.

  I sincerely hope things improve for you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #1241602 #2092040

Grammar

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