petite — French to English

How French petite 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: petite (27 311), petites (48 123). By style: everyday 1 088 · literary 180 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 11 289 · legal and administrative 8 803 · UN documents 54 044.

small

Used about 48 736 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 374 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 8 349 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 336 · UN documents ≈ 32 652). Forms: small, smaller. Meaning: small in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La mouche est petite.

  The fly is small.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and ddnktr · checked, community translation · #10119228 #3487742

• Il y a une chapelle couronnée d'une petite voûte pleine d'enrichissements bien coupés.

  There is a chapel crowned with a small vault full of very well carved enrichments.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8162

• Il vit aussi une pauvre veuve, qui y mettait deux petites pièces.

  He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 21:2

• Ce n'est pas une petite décision.

  This is not a small decision.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1117123

• Redevance réduite pour petite entreprise

  Reduced fee for small enterprise

  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 1515873

scale

Used about 1 126 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 126). Meaning: scale in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La plus petite échelle à laquelle l ' affichage d ' un objet est autorisé dans une représentation ECDIS.

  The minimum scale at which the feature may be used e.g. for ECDIS presentation. SENC

  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 26336713

• Ceux-ci avaient traité aussi bien de la petite corruption au niveau local que de la corruption à grande échelle au niveau transnational.

  The panel discussion had addressed corruption from petty corruption at the grassroots level to corruption on a grand scale at the transnational level.

  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 27420968

sized

Used about 92 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 92).

• Supplément en faveur des petites et moyennes entreprises [12](ESB)

  Supplement for medium-sized enterprises [12](GGE)

  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 5627139

More sentences

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

• Jim est fou de sa petite amie.

  Jim is crazy about his girlfriend.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lulantis and CN · checked, community translation · #53236 #11729

• Il demanda à sa petite copine d'emprunter le parapluie de sa mère.

  He asked his girlfriend to borrow her mother's umbrella.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Popolon and patgfisher · checked, community translation · #2811613 #2934105

• Ce chien a sauvé la vie de la petite fille.

  This dog saved the girl's life.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and robbieheslop · checked, community translation · #6321947 #11054438

Grammar

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