près — French to English

How French près is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: près (87 396). By style: everyday 745 · literary 174 · biblical 315 · parliamentary 7 134 · legal and administrative 3 791 · UN documents 75 237.

near

Used about 28 809 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 372 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 39 · parliamentary ≈ 892 · legal and administrative ≈ 790 · UN documents ≈ 26 646). Forms: near, nearly. Meaning: near in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Est-ce près de chez toi ?

  Is it near your house?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pharamp and CK · checked, community translation · #42494 #410963

• Il retourna dans l'écurie près du cheval.

  He returned to the stable and remained near the horse.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5594

• Ils le virent de loin; et, avant qu’il fût près d’eux, ils complotèrent de le faire mourir.

  They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 37:18

• En 2007, près de 300 000 Européens hautement qualifiés sont partis travailler en dehors de l'Union.

  In 2007, nearly 300 000 highly qualified Europeans left to work outside the Union.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1166593

• le bassin versant de l'Obere Nagold, depuis sa source jusqu'au barrage près de Neumühle.

  the water catchment area of Obere Nagold from the source to the barrier near Neumühle.

  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 1379190

almost

Used about 12 048 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 892 · legal and administrative ≈ 158 · UN documents ≈ 10 972). Meaning: almost in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ma chambre mesure près de six mètres de long.

  My room is almost six meters long.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10836311 #10836354

• Or la logique ignore l'à peu près; absolument comme le soleil ignore la chandelle.

  Now, logic knows not the “almost,” absolutely as the sun knows not the candle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18100

• - Monsieur le Président, je proviens aussi d’une île qui a souffert du terrorisme pendant près de trente ans.

  Mr President, I also come from an island which had suffered almost 30 years of terrorism.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 791822

• Cet investissement serait d’autant plus déterminant que les aéroports tendraient à générer près de la moitié de leurs revenus à partir d’activités non aéronautiques.

  This investment is all the more decisive because airports tend to generate almost half of their revenues from non-aeronautical activities.

  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 3506321

• Près de la moitié (49 %) est âgée de moins de 15 ans, 45 % est âgée de 15 à 60 ans et 6 % de la population environ a plus de 60 ans.

  Almost half (49 per cent) are under 15 years of age; 45 per cent are aged between 15 and 60 and about 6 per cent are over 60.

  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 5257271

close

Used about 12 011 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 93 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 932 · legal and administrative ≈ 553 · UN documents ≈ 9 405). Forms: close, closely. Meaning: close in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est près de ma maison.

  It's close to my house.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3823680 #5334428

• La barrière était tout près.

  The barrier was close at hand.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9353

• Un léger vent du sud vint à souffler, et, se croyant maîtres de leur dessein, ils levèrent l’ancre et côtoyèrent de près l’île de Crète.

  When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:13

• Voyons à présent les choses d’un peu plus près.

  Now let us look at things a little more closely.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 695862

• La Commission continuera de suivre de près les importations de bananes en provenance du Pérou,

  The Commission will continue to closely monitor banana imports from Peru,

  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 2834387

there

Used about 6 442 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 149 · UN documents ≈ 6 270). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il se tenait près de ce lit, debout, le doigt sur la bouche, comme s'il y eût eu dans la chambre quelqu'un à faire taire.

  He stood beside the bed, with his finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he must enjoin to silence.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6290

• C’étaient les potiers et les habitants des plantations et des parcs; ils demeuraient là près du roi et travaillaient pour lui.

  These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 4:23

• Nous suivons toutefois la question de près, nous étudions les derniers développements technologiques et il y aura une évaluation en 2012.

  However we are following the issue, we are studying the latest technology development and there will be an evaluation in 2012.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1376957

• Il y a de par le monde des millions de personnes déracinées, dont près de la moitié sont des enfants.

  There are millions of uprooted people worldwide, of which approximately half are children.

  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 24454239

• Abram leva ses tentes, et vint habiter parmi les chênes de Mamré, qui sont près d’Hébron. Et il bâtit là un autel à l’Éternel.

  Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 13:18

about

Used about 4 236 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 171 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 595 · legal and administrative ≈ 316 · UN documents ≈ 3 135). Meaning: about in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Elle a à peu près mon âge.

  She is about my age.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #311507 #15608

• Cette joie dura près d'un quart d'heure.

  This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8759

• Il les nourrit près de quarante ans dans le désert;

  For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 13:18

• Je pense que c'est à peu près tout ce que je dois dire.

  I think that is about all I need to say.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 34687

• Introduire dans un bécher taré une quantité d'environ 100 grammes, pesée à 0,01 gramme près, de l'échantillon.

  Weigh about 100 g of the sample to the nearest 0,01 g in a tared beaker.

  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 3384656

More sentences

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

• Il était à peu près ivre.

  He was pretty much drunk.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Joseph · checked, community translation · #4001737 #4002121

• Tom, dix mots en arrière, ne voyait pas bien ce mot-ci. Mary, qui était plus près, le lui décrivit.

  Tom, back ten words, couldn't see very well this one. Mary, who stood closer, described it to him.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1080953 #1080952

• Il posa quelques questions à la dame qui se tenait près de lui.

  He asked the lady standing next to him some questions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · #487225 #842639

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