nombreux — French to English

How French nombreux 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: nombreux (154 882). By style: everyday 472 · literary 4 · biblical 84 · parliamentary 18 774 · legal and administrative 2 380 · UN documents 133 168.

many

Used about 119 560 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 325 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 15 254 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 289 · UN documents ≈ 102 650). Meaning: many in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils ont fait de nombreux changements.

  They made many changes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · #5190695 #6971216

• Vois combien mes ennemis sont nombreux, Et de quelle haine violente ils me poursuivent.

  Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 25:19

• Nombreux sont ceux qui souhaitent une directive sur les services.

  The Services Directive is desired by many.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 880369

• ponts étroits ou nombreux;

  narrow and/or many bridges,

  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 1229699

• 30. De nombreux orateurs ont insisté sur l ' utilité des instruments juridiques régionaux.

  Many speakers emphasized the value of regional legal instruments.

  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 29606077

numerous

Used about 9 418 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 782 · legal and administrative ≈ 298 · UN documents ≈ 8 323). Meaning: numerous in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Nous sommes beaucoup moins nombreux que nous le désirerions, mais nous sommes beaucoup plus nombreux que ce que vous pouvez imaginer.

  We may be fewer than we would like, but we are far more numerous than you can imagine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rmateo and Akenaseryan · checked, community translation · #5491822 #5486120

• Quelques instants s'écoulèrent encore, puis un bruit de pas, mesuré, pesant, nombreux, se fit entendre distinctement du côté de Saint-Leu.

  Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24493

• (Les Émim y habitaient auparavant; c’était un peuple grand, nombreux et de haute taille, comme les Anakim.

  (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.

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

• Les exemples sont nombreux autant que révélateurs : la biodiversité, objet d'une Convention à Rio, ne cesse de régresser.

  The examples are as numerous as they are revealing: biodiversity, the subject of a Convention in Rio, continues to decline sharply.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 366615

• Ce procédé commun présente le grand avantage d’être susceptible de remplacer de nombreux procédés propres aux différents États membres.

  One main advantage of that common procedure is that it is likely to replace numerous procedures individual to the various Member States.

  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 2884006

countries

Used about 3 165 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 391 · UN documents ≈ 2 774).

• Nous pourrions discuter sans fin des dérives économiques de 2008 mais ces dernières se sont produites dans de nombreux pays autres que l'Islande.

  Clearly, we could get bogged down talking about the economic excesses of 2008, but there have been such excesses in more countries than just little Iceland.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1540464

• L’Assemblée générale s’est félicitée des progrès notables que de nombreux pays avaient accomplis en réalisant la majorité des objectifs de mi-parcours.

  The General Assembly welcomed the significant progress made by most countries in achieving the majority of the mid-decade goals.

  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 6399971

great

Used about 788 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 782). Meaning: great in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il y avait encore avec Joseph des chars et des cavaliers, en sorte que le cortège était très nombreux.

  Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 50:9

• De nombreux efforts sont encore à accomplir pour que ce pays devienne véritablement démocratique.

  There is still a great deal of work to be done in order for the country to become truly democratic.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 468602

• Accorde donc à ton serviteur un cœur intelligent pour juger ton peuple, pour discerner le bien du mal! Car qui pourrait juger ton peuple, ce peuple si nombreux?

  Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 3:9

• Je ne nie pas que de nombreux ajustements s'opèrent au sein de cette institution et que la discipline budgétaire y est strictement respectée.

  I do not deny the fact that there is a great deal of internal reorganisation and that strict budgetary discipline is being exercised.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 176876

• Comme ils fuyaient devant Israël, et qu’ils étaient à la descente de Beth-Horon, l’Éternel fit tomber du ciel sur eux de grosses pierres jusqu’à Azéka, et ils périrent; ceux qui moururent par les pierres de grêle furent plus nombreux que ceux qui furent tués avec l’épée par les enfants d’Israël.

  As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, the LORD hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 10:11

More sentences

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

• Elle devait parler devant un public nombreux.

  She had to speak before a large audience.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · #311536 #134031

• Il y avait, dans le parc, de nombreux jeunes couples.

  There were a lot of young couples in the park.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #240414 #3558283

• De nombreux passagers ont été blessés dans l'accident.

  A number of passengers were injured in the accident.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · #47196 #12138

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