nombre — French to English

How French nombre 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: nombre (632 166), nombres (2 098). By style: everyday 352 · literary 19 · biblical 237 · parliamentary 28 880 · legal and administrative 46 019 · UN documents 558 757.

number

Used about 465 584 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 276 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 89 · parliamentary ≈ 17 448 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 514 · UN documents ≈ 413 247). Forms: number, numbers. Meaning: number in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Nous avons les nombres.

  We have the numbers.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Seael · checked, community translation · #13744463 #13744685

• Le symbole n'est pas le nombre.

  The symbol is not the number.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2524

• Il fait des choses grandes et insondables, Des merveilles sans nombre;

  who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 5:9

• Les nombres, en effet, parlent d'eux-mêmes.

  The numbers, after all, speak for themselves.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1147584

• en nombres absolus; ou

  as an absolute number; or

  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 4851950

more

Used about 25 154 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 903 · legal and administrative ≈ 959 · UN documents ≈ 23 282). Meaning: more in the Elamur Dictionary.

• «Soyez à bord mardi, à sept heures du matin,» dit M. Bjarne après avoir empoché un nombre respectable de species-dollars.

  "You must be on board on Tuesday, at seven in the morning," said Captain Bjarne, after having pocketed more dollars than were his due.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 737

• Balak envoya de nouveau des chefs en plus grand nombre et plus considérés que les précédents.

  Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 22:15

• Le nombre de voix dont ils disposent a été accru, au détriment des petits États membres.

  They gained more votes at the expense of small countries.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 196485

• En choisissant entre ces deux derniers nombres celui qui entraîne les prescriptions les plus sévères.

  Whichever results in more severe requirements.

  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 5163720

• Le rapport entre ces deux nombres pourra être différent si le Jury central le juge bon.

  More or fewer candidates may be convoked if the Central Examinations Board considers it to be warranted. "

  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 14307034

many

Used about 17 606 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 5 415 · legal and administrative ≈ 479 · UN documents ≈ 11 641). Meaning: many in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Un bon nombre de personnes étaient là.

  A good many people were there.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #63622 #10983

• —Croyez-vous, dis-je, que le nombre de ces audacieux fût si grand?

  "Do you really think there are many people bold enough?" said I.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 430

• Car tu feras la guerre avec prudence, Et le salut est dans le grand nombre des conseillers.

  for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 24:6

• Nombre d'entre nous approuvent ce fondement.

  Many of us believe that that is right.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 892642

• Or, dans un grand nombre de cas, l'exercice fiscal correspond à l'année civile.

  Now, in many cases, the tax year corresponds to the calendar 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 1365723

More sentences

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

• Elle m'a aidé un nombre incalculable de fois.

  She helped me out countless times.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2199788 #2200104

• La récente pénurie de café a occasionné un grand nombre de problèmes.

  The recent shortage of coffee has given rise to a lot of problems.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #243778 #792866

• Un certain nombre de bardeaux se sont envolés du toit lors de la tempête.

  Quite a few shingles flew off the roof during the storm.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #718442 #801669

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