mots — French to English

How French mots is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: mots (28 873). By style: everyday 640 · literary 35 · biblical 114 · parliamentary 4 205 · legal and administrative 1 610 · UN documents 22 269.

words

Used about 21 854 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 587 · literary ≈ 33 · biblical ≈ 109 · parliamentary ≈ 3 679 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 208 · UN documents ≈ 16 238). Forms: word, words.

• Je déteste ces mots.

  I hate those words.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and Evie · checked, community translation · #4403683 #1269139

• Je bondis à ces mots.

  I gave a bound at these words.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 572

• La parole de l’Éternel me fut adressée, en ces mots:

  The LORD’s word came to me, saying,

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

• Plus de mots pour quel objectif...

  More words for what purpose...

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1145700

• (maximum 900 mots par campagne)

  (max. 900 words per survey)

  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 4530904

quot

Used about 2 320 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 320).

• Remplacer les mots " l ' opération TIR " par " un transport TIR " .

  Remplacer les mots " l ' opération TIR " par " un transport TIR " .

  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 9249330

• Remplacer les mots < < l ' envoi ne peut plus être fait > > par < < l ' expédition ne peut plus être faite > > .

  Replace " the consignment " with " the shipment " .

  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 12656867

• De supprimer les mots < < minimum et maximum > > dans la première phrase de la section intitulée < < Dispositions concernant le calibrage > > ;

  Delete " maximum and minimum " in the first sentence of the section on provisions concerning sizing.

  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 28054415

• Veuillez noter que cela concorde avec l ' utilisation des mots " remplissage " et " vidange " dans la définition d ' Équipement de service au paragraphe 6.5.1.2.

  Note: This is consistent with the use of " filling " in the definition of Service equipment in 6.5.1.2.

  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 6652851

• Il est temps de remplacer les mots martyre, résignation et désespoir — tout ce qu ' implique le terme " vulnérable " — par ceux de résistance, mobilisation, institutionnalisation, autodétermination et autonomie.

  Rather than speak of victimization, resignation and hopelessness - as implied by the term " vulnerable " - it was time to speak of resistance, activism, agency, self-determination and autonomy.

  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 5040650

paragraph

Used about 928 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 928). Meaning: paragraph in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Au paragraphe 15.68 d) xiii), après les mots «cultures illicites»;

  Paragraph 15.68 (d) (xiii), after cultivation;

  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 5646138

• Au paragraphe 25.2, à l’alinéa b), supprimer les mots «et en particulier du Conseil de sécurité».

  8. In paragraph 25.2 (b), delete “, notably the Security Council”.

  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 5570612

replaced

Used about 497 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 464).

• À l’article 12, paragraphe 1, premier alinéa, les mots «territoire douanier de la Communauté» sont remplacés par «territoire douanier de l’Union».

  In the first subparagraph of Article 12(1), the term ‘Customs territory from the Community’ is replaced by the term ‘customs territory of the Union’;

  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 3054239

• 40. M. de GOUTTES dit qu ' à la première ligne, il convient de remplacer les mots " peuples autochtones " par " populations autochtones " .

  40. Mr. de GOUTTES said that “peuples autochtones” (indigenous peoples) should be replaced by “populations autochtones” (indigenous peoples) in the first line.

  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 4892120

say

Used about 101 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 88). Meaning: say in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je dirais qu’un vocabulaire de trois mille mots est en soi considérable et certainement un bon point de départ.

  I'd say a vocabulary of three thousand is particularly solid and certainly a good starting point.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Danquebec and ferra · checked, community translation · #3791481 #3794857

• Je voudrais dire deux mots au sujet de ce que nous devons faire pour mettre ceci en pratique.

  I would like to say something about the things we need to do in order to put this into practice.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 849854

few

Used about 90 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 88). Meaning: few in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C’est par révélation que j’ai eu connaissance du mystère sur lequel je viens d’écrire en peu de mots.

  how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

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

• Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, vu le peu de temps, quelques mots clés seulement.

  Mr President, Commissioner, in the short time I have left, I would just like to make a few key points.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2016408

More sentences

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

• Les jeux de mots sont très difficiles, voire impossibles, à traduire.

  Puns are very hard, if not impossible, to translate.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #5295025 #8823981

• Je fais exprès de jouer sur les mots pour l'embêter.

  I'm playing semantics on purpose to annoy him.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and tieguy · checked, community translation · #11669962 #8897747

• Il était absorbé par ses mots-croisés.

  He was absorbed by his crosswords.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and bekindtoall · checked, community translation · #10250653 #181769

Grammar

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