moins — French to English

How French moins 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: moins (445 152). By style: everyday 1 185 · literary 165 · biblical 64 · parliamentary 30 800 · legal and administrative 77 695 · UN documents 335 243.

least

Used about 206 343 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 296 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 13 475 · legal and administrative ≈ 38 848 · UN documents ≈ 153 653). Meaning: least in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Écris au moins 250 mots.

  Write at least 250 words.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and CM · checked, community translation · #750394 #750397

• --Au moins trente sous.

  “Thirty sous at least.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8676

• Si pour d’autres je ne suis pas apôtre, je le suis au moins pour vous; car vous êtes le sceau de mon apostolat dans le Seigneur.

  If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:2

• Il faudrait au moins que certains avis soient émis en la matière.

  There should at least be some advice on that.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 233341

• Ces résultats sont mis à jour au moins une fois par an.

  The results shall be updated at least every year.

  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 4840116

less

Used about 88 563 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 321 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 9 625 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 661 · UN documents ≈ 55 874). Meaning: less in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il y en a un de moins.

  There is one less.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Amastan · checked, community translation · #1635525 #4901098

• —On le serait à moins!

  "One might be, with less reason than now."

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2855

• Les Israélites firent ainsi; et ils en ramassèrent les uns plus, les autres moins.

  The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 16:17

• Je suis malheureusement beaucoup moins optimiste qu’elle.

  Unfortunately, I am much less optimistic than she is.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541666

• moins de 1,2 % de nickel,

  less than 1,2 % of nickel,

  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 5281050

than

Used about 8 711 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 99 · biblical ≈ 9 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 619 · UN documents ≈ 6 984). Meaning: than in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je détiens moins de livres que toi.

  I have fewer books than you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zaphod · checked, community translation · #812495 #3704373

• Je vous dis qu’en ce jour Sodome sera traitée moins rigoureusement que cette ville-là.

  I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 10:12

• Si une séquence comporte moins de 9 caractères, insérer des zéros supplémentaires en position initiale.

  Where a series has fewer than 9 characters, additional zeros shall be inserted on the left hand side

  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 3920043

• Aujourd ' hui, il possède moins de 225 ogives nucléaires, toutes du même type.

  Today we have fewer than 225 warheads, all of a single type.

  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 30129835

• Tu as trois ans de moins que Tom.

  You're three years younger than Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by davidcfres and CK · checked, community translation · #5212513 #5213746

one

Used about 8 658 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 619 · UN documents ≈ 6 984). Meaning: one in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Si un triangle a deux angles droits, c'est un carré avec un côté en moins.

  If a triangle has two right angles, it's a square missing one side.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Goofy and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #697962 #695505

• cinq fois j’ai reçu des Juifs quarante coups moins un,

  Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 11:24

• une configuration présentant au moins une des deux caractéristiques suivantes:

  a configuration of a minimum of one of the following two characteristics:

  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 2962439

• Plus de la moitié des enfants de moins de 5 ans qui ont eu la diarrhée en 1994 ont pris de l ' " oralite " , ce qui est très positif.

  One very positive development is that over half of the children under the age of five who had diarrhoea in 1994 took Oralite.

  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 7918105

• Si tu y vas par le bus, tu peux y être dans environ trois fois moins de temps.

  If you go by bus, you can get there in about one-third of the time.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #35386 #452555

More sentences

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

• Les Italiens ne portent pas de tongs, à moins qu'ils ne soient à la piscine ou à la plage.

  Italians don't wear flip-flops, unless they're at the pool or beach.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #7033309 #9868564

• Je serai de retour en moins de temps qu'il ne faut pour le dire.

  I'll be back before you know it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #1412064 #1413214

• Je n'irai pas avec vous à moins que vous me disiez où nous nous rendons.

  I won't go with you unless you tell me where we're going.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #671653 #809414

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