quelle — French to English

How French quelle 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: quelle (65 328), quelles (45 795). By style: everyday 2 893 · literary 84 · biblical 138 · parliamentary 13 896 · legal and administrative 8 354 · UN documents 85 758.

any

Used about 9 871 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 121 · parliamentary ≈ 579 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 131 · UN documents ≈ 8 040). Meaning: any in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Dessine n'importe quelle forme sur une feuille de papier.

  Draw any shape on a sheet of paper.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and calypsow · checked, community translation · #11850239 #8565428

• Le budget annuel alloué à la traduction et à l'interprétation est bien plus éloquent que n'importe quelle réponse.

  The budget amount devoted to translation and interpretation speaks volumes more than any reply.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1489185

• Ils ne peuvent donc pas être appliqués directement à n’importe quelle organisation dans n’importe quelle situation.

  Therefore they cannot be applied directly to any organisation in any situation.

  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 2781427

• Quelles autres mesures envisage-t-il, le cas échéant?

  What further steps, if any, are under consideration?

  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 26752342

• N'importe quelle voiture fera l'affaire, pourvu qu'elle roule.

  Any car whatever will do, provided it can be driven.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GLOBULE38 and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · #3484550 #2130236

how

Used about 7 481 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 271 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 2 027 · legal and administrative ≈ 696 · UN documents ≈ 4 467). Meaning: how in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quelle est la longueur du Nil ?

  How long is the Nile River?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and JFMorais · checked, community translation · #4256541 #6400169

• --Quelle est la longueur de la bière?

  “How long is the coffin?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11838

• Et moi, comment lui répondre? Quelles paroles choisir?

  How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 9:14

• Quelles qu'en soient les conséquences;

  No matter how trifling the cost;

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1548063

• À quelle fréquence les connaissances du personnel chargé du contrôle des exportations/transferts sont-elles actualisées?

  How often is the export control staff’s knowledge updated?

  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 2302389

know

Used about 5 906 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 434 · UN documents ≈ 5 360). Meaning: know in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quelles langues connais-tu ?

  What languages do you know?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and miflhanc · checked, community translation · #1550947 #1551179

• Sais-tu quelle heure il est?

  “Do you know what o’clock it is?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6910

• Je sais bien quelles sont vos pensées, Quels jugements iniques vous portez sur moi.

  “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:27

• Est-ce qu’on a le droit de savoir quelle est la décision qui a été prise?

  Do we have a right to know what decision has been made?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 664291

• Je ne sais pas quelle a été la délimitation exacte du cadre de ces élections.

  I do not know the exact definition of the framework of these elections.

  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 12933914

More sentences

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

• Quelle est votre décision ?

  What's your decision?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2234169 #5367339

• « Quelle heure il est ? » « J'ai pas de montre. »

  "What's the time?" "I don't have a watch."

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and robbieheslop · checked, community translation · #6322202 #6322839

• Quelle sorte de vin as-tu ?

  What kind of wine do you have?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #36679 #1182832

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