petits — French to English

How French petits is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: petits (68 765). By style: everyday 296 · literary 55 · biblical 105 · parliamentary 4 184 · legal and administrative 3 740 · UN documents 60 385.

island

Used about 35 225 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 35 225). Meaning: island in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C. Petits États insulaires en développement

  Small island developing states

  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 12692245

• sur les petits États insulaires en développement

  Small Island Developing States

  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 29132140

• durable des petits États insulaires en développement

  the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

  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 3346955

• Déclaration du CAC sur les petits États insulaires en développement

  ACC statement on small island developing States

  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 5966260

• Réunion officieuse sur les petits États insulaires en développement du Pacifique

  Informal meeting on Pacific island developing countries

  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 13114060

small

Used about 25 631 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 43 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 3 574 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 117 · UN documents ≈ 18 870). Forms: small, smaller. Meaning: small in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières.

  Many small streams make a great river.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LowMemory and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · #8047449 #14660

• Cela s'arrangeait comme un complot, on sortait avant le jour, et c'était autant de petits bonheurs pour Cosette.

  It was arranged like a plot, they set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for Cosette.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19623

• Il bénira ceux qui craignent l’Éternel, Les petits et les grands;

  He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 115:13

• Et pourquoi sommes-nous petits?

  And why are we small?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 583692

• Baies et petits fruits

  Berries and small fruits

  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 4308146

More sentences

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

• Les petits-enfants prouvent qu'il n'est pas inutile d'avoir des enfants.

  Grandchildren are proof that some good comes from having children.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and sundown · checked, community translation · #6196032 #2061647

• Mon amoureux est toujours aux petits soins avec moi.

  My boyfriend is always pampering me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LoverofEnglish and tieguy · checked, community translation · #13885696 #12541665

• Bratislav a regardé au-delà des petites politiques et des petits peuples de cette minuscule planète.

  Bratislav looked beyond the little polities and little peoples of this tiny planet.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and nonong · checked, community translation · #10830162 #10833004

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