plutôt — French to English

How French plutôt 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: plutôt (58 555). By style: everyday 638 · literary 18 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 11 709 · legal and administrative 3 501 · UN documents 42 651.

rather

Used about 37 724 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 226 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 6 098 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 042 · UN documents ≈ 29 323). Meaning: rather in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est plutôt étrange.

  That's rather odd.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · #10816715 #3654354

• Plutôt que d'emprunter il ne mangeait pas.

  Rather than borrow, he went without food.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14823

• allez plutôt vers les brebis perdues de la maison d’Israël.

  Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:6

• Mon rapport ne va pas à l’encontre de l’accord interinstitutionnel, mais cherche plutôt à le renforcer.

  My report is not aimed against the interinstitutional agreement, but rather it intends to strengthen it.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 568100

• Cela plaide plutôt dans le sens de l'existence d'une continuité économique.

  This rather points to the existence of economic continuity.

  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 4217412

instead

Used about 6 634 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 195 · legal and administrative ≈ 802 · UN documents ≈ 3 554). Meaning: instead in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Jouons plutôt aux cartes.

  Let's play cards instead.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · #45531 #13880855

• Mais les chefs des sacrificateurs excitèrent la foule, afin que Pilate leur relâchât plutôt Barabbas.

  But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 15:11

• Veillons plutôt à stimuler les investissements, facilitons les investissements.

  Let us instead make the incentive to invest, let us allow positive ways to investment to be made.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1101782

• Il a été proposé d’utiliser plutôt une marge bénéficiaire de 5 %.

  It was proposed to use a profit margin of 5 % instead.

  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 754687

• Il conviendrait d ' utiliser pleinement ces arrangements plutôt que d ' abuser de la tribune offerte par l ' Organisation des Nations Unies.

  Full use should be made of those arrangements, instead of misusing the forum of the United Nations.

  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 14883202

than

Used about 977 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 73 · UN documents ≈ 889). Meaning: than in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Plutôt elle que moi.

  Better her than me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1790800 #1791450

• On s'en souvient, elle était plutôt alouette que colombe.

  It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20063

• Le centenier écouta le pilote et le patron du navire plutôt que les paroles de Paul.

  But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:11

• Un complément d'information est généralement demandé en vue de calmer les inquiétudes plutôt que de les accroître.

  Generally there is a requirement for more complete information to decrease than to increase the level of concern.

  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 1636897

• :: Fonder l ' accréditation sur des considérations techniques plutôt que politiques

  :: Focusing accreditation more on technical than on political considerations

  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 11336216

More sentences

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

• Je le trouve plutôt marrant.

  I find him pretty funny.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and tieguy · checked, community translation · #11671607 #3006451

• En fait, je suis plutôt occupé.

  Actually, I'm kind of busy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3396673 #6219240

• C'est plutôt ennuyant.

  That's pretty annoying.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #1929639 #6545624

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