quel — French to English

How French quel 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: quel (53 681), quele (2), queles (1), quels (31 438). By style: everyday 2 738 · literary 93 · biblical 123 · parliamentary 12 807 · legal and administrative 5 818 · UN documents 63 543.

how

Used about 5 664 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 314 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 2 001 · legal and administrative ≈ 121 · UN documents ≈ 3 209). Meaning: how in the Elamur Dictionary.

• À quel point tu as faim ?

  How hungry are you?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CK · checked, community translation · #3550097 #3551584

• --Quel âge a-t-elle?

  “How old is she?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3377

• Léa dit: Quel bonheur! Et elle l’appela du nom de Gad.

  Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 30:11

• Mais c'est en de pareils instants que vous vous rendez compte à quel point les animaux voyagent.

  But it is at a time like this that you realise how mobile animals are.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 162938

• Quel est le bilan des premiers mois du guichet unique pour les services parlementaires aux députés?

  Now that it has been operating for several months, how effective has the one-stop shop for the provision of parliamentary services to Members been?

  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 5605498

know

Used about 3 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 114 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 800 · UN documents ≈ 2 567). Meaning: know in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu sais quel jour on est ?

  Do you know what today is?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Maxence and CK · checked, community translation · #12095808 #7702135

• Elle n'eût donc su quel nom donner à ce qu'elle éprouvait maintenant.

  Therefore, she did not know what name to give to what she now felt.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19484

• Veillez donc, puisque vous ne savez pas quel jour votre Seigneur viendra.

  Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 24:42

• Enfin, je ne sais pas quels doutes M. García-Margallo a perçus.

  Finally, I do not know what doubts Mr García-Margallo has perceived.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 874911

• 475. Les membres du Comité ont demandé quel soutien l ' État apportait aux études sur les femmes.

  475. Members wanted to know how the Government is supporting women ' s studies.

  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 1500546

More sentences

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

• Quel est le plus beau cadeau que vous avez reçu à Noël dernier ?

  What was the best present you got last Christmas?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · #5705388 #9498808

• Quel être humain est capable d'un tel acte ?

  What kind of man could do such a thing?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slahatuvelli and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #13906150 #13905921

• Quel jour es-tu libre habituellement ?

  What day are you usually free?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and fcbond · checked, community translation · #328973 #1690321

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