portent — French to English

How French portent 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: portent (39 117). By style: everyday 87 · literary 6 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 1 769 · legal and administrative 4 765 · UN documents 32 451.

relate

Used about 2 610 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 184 · legal and administrative ≈ 397 · UN documents ≈ 2 028). Meaning: relate in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il faut savoir que ces chiffres portent sur 27 pays et non sur 25.

  It should be realised that these figures relate to 27 European countries, and not just 25.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 845196

• Elles portent sur l'année t – 2.

  They shall relate to the year t – 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 5675142

• 9. Les questions importantes qui se posent en ce qui concerne les rapports nationaux portent sur les aspects suivants:

  9. The important issues that arise with regard to national reporting relate to the following:

  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 18694566

• Mes deux autres observations, Madame la Présidente, portent sur l’initiative de M. Romagnoli visant à présenter un amendement sur la réforme agraire.

  My other two observations, Madam President, relate to Mr Romagnoli’s initiative to present an amendment on the agricultural reform.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 807000

• Ces demandes portent sur une quantité d’au moins 10 tonnes.

  Those applications shall relate to not less than 10 tonnes.

  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 2588808

wear

Used about 1 529 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 37 · legal and administrative ≈ 99 · UN documents ≈ 1 352). Meaning: wear in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les hommes ne portent pas de culottes.

  Men don't wear panties.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9361173 #12478194

• Leur fine gorgerette blanche, leur jupe de tiretaine rayée rouge et bleue, leurs chausses de tricot blanc, à coins brodés en couleur, bien tirées sur la jambe, leurs souliers carrés de cuir fauve à semelles noires et surtout leur coiffure, cette espèce de corne de clinquant surchargée de rubans et de dentelles que les champenoises portent encore, concurremment avec les grenadiers de la garde impériale russe, annonçaient qu'elles appartenaient à cette classe de riches marchandes qui tient le milieu entre ce que les laquais appellent une femme et ce qu'ils appellent une dame.

  Their fine white ruffs; their petticoats of linsey-woolsey, striped red and blue; their white knitted stockings, with clocks embroidered in colors, well drawn upon their legs; the square-toed shoes of tawny leather with black soles, and, above all, their headgear, that sort of tinsel horn, loaded down with ribbons and laces, which the women of Champagne still wear, in company with the grenadiers of the imperial guard of Russia, announced that they belonged to that class wives which holds the middle ground between what the lackeys call a woman and what they term a lady.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3017

• Mais, qu’êtes-vous allés voir? Un homme vêtu d’habits précieux? Voici, ceux qui portent des habits précieux sont dans les maisons des rois.

  But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:8

• Il y a ici un certain nombre d'entre vous qui portent des T-shirts particuliers parce qu'ils sont contre une forme d'énergie.

  There are a number of you here who wear particular T-shirts because you are against a type of power.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1116466

• Des mesures doivent être prises pour garantir qu'ils portent un appareil respiratoire autonome ou d'autres équipements appropriés de protection individuelle,

  Measures are required to ensure that they wear self-containing breathing apparatus or other appropriate personal protective equipment;

  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 4260976

bear

Used about 1 320 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 37 · legal and administrative ≈ 596 · UN documents ≈ 676). Meaning: bear in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les ramures qui portent le plus sont les plus basses.

  The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and zhouj1955 · checked, community translation · #347552 #492347

• Les prieures et les mères portent presque toujours des noms empreints d'une gravité particulière, rappelant, non des saintes et des martyres, mais des moments de la vie de Jésus-Christ, comme la mère Nativité, la mère Conception, la mère Présentation, la mère Passion.

  The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Mother Presentation, Mother Passion.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10411

• Ordonne aux sacrificateurs qui portent l’arche du témoignage de sortir du Jourdain.

  “Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 4:16

• Notre deuxième point d'attention, un point qui était d'un intérêt particulier pour moi, portait sur le rôle des importateurs, qui portent une responsabilité particulière.

  Our second focal point, and one that was of particular interest to me, was the role of importers, who bear particular responsibility.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1032955

• Les déclarations d'origine délivrées en vertu du paragraphe 9 portent l'une des mentions suivantes:

  Origin declarations issued by application of paragraph 9 shall bear one of the following entries:

  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 322387

More sentences

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

• Ces filles portent des tenues légères.

  These girls are wearing skimpy clothes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1637157 #13417811

• Tom et Marie portent leurs uniformes d'écoliers.

  Tom and Mary are wearing their school uniforms.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1486069 #1692750

• Les filles portent des jupes courtes ces temps-ci.

  Girls are wearing short skirts these days.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · #434772 #1919570

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