para — French to English

How French para 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: para (24 806), paraes (5), paras (2 305). By style: literary 2 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 17 · legal and administrative 478 · UN documents 26 617.

para

Used about 24 165 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 7 · legal and administrative ≈ 438 · UN documents ≈ 23 718). Forms: para, paras.

• --Vite, des cartouches! para bellum.

  “Quick, cartridges, para bellum.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23417

• "Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("Qui veut la paix, prépare la guerre"), disait-on dans l'Antiquité.

  'Si vis pacem, para bellum' ('If you wish for peace, prepare for war') said the ancients.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1437710

• en espagnol huevos para incubar

  in Spanish huevos para incubar

  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 2432478

• CAT/C/TUR/CO/3, para. 28.

  CAT/C/TUR/CO/3, para. 28.

  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 29292626

• Ce trépied vivant le salua au passage, mais en arrêtant son chapeau à la hauteur du menton de Gringoire, comme un plat à barbe, et en lui criant aux oreilles: «Señor caballero, para comprar un pedaso de pan[23]!

  This living tripod saluted him as he passed, but stopping his hat on a level with Gringoire’s chin, like a shaving dish, while he shouted in the latter’s ears: “Señor cabellero, para comprar un pedaso de pan!”[11]

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1154

suppl

Used about 1 054 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 054).

• Add.68/Amend.3 Suppl.2 to 01 5.12.01 123 776, para. 119 785 b/

  Add.68/Amend.3 Suppl.2 to 01 5.12.01 123 776, para. 119 785 b/

  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 11252517

• Add.64/Amend.3 Suppl.3 to 00 15.8.02 125 815, para. 135 829 b/

  Add.64/Amend.3 Suppl.3 to 00 15.8.02 125 815, para. 135 829 b/

  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 11252428

• Add.12H/Amend.2 Suppl.2 20.2.02 124 792, para. 134 795 AC.1 (18th) b/

  Add.12H/Amend.2 Suppl.2 20.2.02 124 792, para. 134 795 AC.1 (18th) b/

  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 12807729

• Add.95/Amend.4 Suppl.1 to 01 31.1.03 127 861, para. 157 876 AC.1 (21st) b/

  Add.95/Amend.4 Suppl.1 to 01 31.1.03 127 861, para. 157 876 AC.1 (21st) b/

  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 12809939

rev

Used about 10 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10). Meaning: rev in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Selon les définitions de la résolution d’ensemble sur la construction des véhicules (R.E.3) (document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/Rev.2,para.2).

  As defined in the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3), document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.2, paragraph 2.

  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 5506183

More sentences

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

• Jéhu entra dans Jizreel. Jézabel, l’ayant appris, mit du fard à ses yeux, se para la tête, et regarda par la fenêtre.

  When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 9:30

• Avvim, Para, Ophra,

  Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 18:23

• Il s' agit en fait d' une légalisation du fichage par le biais d' une instance européenne para-judiciaire.

  All this means is that personal records are to be legalised through a quasi-judicial European body.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 267223

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