quelque — French to English

How French quelque is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: quelque (76 906), quelques (98 831). By style: everyday 5 321 · literary 496 · biblical 321 · parliamentary 34 907 · legal and administrative 5 474 · UN documents 129 218.

some

Used about 72 032 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 776 · literary ≈ 155 · biblical ≈ 117 · parliamentary ≈ 6 181 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 540 · UN documents ≈ 63 263). Meaning: some in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je veux quelques-unes de celles-ci.

  I want some of those.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #3517216 #3517360

• Cela continua ainsi quelque temps.

  Thus it went on for some time.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26365

• Quelques-uns des scribes, prenant la parole, dirent: Maître, tu as bien parlé.

  Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:39

• Je voudrais faire quelques remarques factuelles.

  I would like only to say some factual remarks.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 975058

• Les organisations doivent également satisfaire à quelques autres exigences, notamment:

  There are some further requirements. Organisations have to:

  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 2781476

few

Used about 27 150 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 497 · literary ≈ 103 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 11 272 · legal and administrative ≈ 798 · UN documents ≈ 13 460). Meaning: few in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai quelques amis ici.

  I have a few friends here.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #253474 #5419006

• QUELQUES OBSERVATIONS POUR LE BIEN DU SERVICE.

  A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28709

• et reste auprès de lui quelque temps, jusqu’à ce que la fureur de ton frère s’apaise,

  Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 27:44

• Permettez-moi de vous poser quelques questions.

  Let me ask you a few questions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 479117

• Faire tremper pendant quelques minutes dans de l'eau chaude.

  Soaking for a few minutes in warm water.

  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 4430157

about

Used about 9 824 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 454 · legal and administrative ≈ 228 · UN documents ≈ 8 076). Meaning: about in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu sais quelque chose sur ta famille ?

  Do you know anything about your family?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and alphafour · checked, community translation · #1019218 #960835

• Car il a parlé quelque part ainsi du septième jour: Et Dieu se reposa de toutes ses œuvres le septième jour.

  For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”

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

• Nous attendons quelque 100 participants à cet évènement.

  We expect there to be about 100 participants in this seminar.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 785123

• Il convient de rappeler que la consommation de l’Union a diminué de quelque 14 % durant la période considérée.

  It is recalled that during the period considered the Union consumption decreased by about 14 %.

  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 2193612

• Quelque 30 % des enseignants universitaires sont des femmes.

  About 30 per cent of university faculty members are women.

  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 5706390

something

Used about 4 755 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 106 · literary ≈ 93 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 2 545).

• Tom a trouvé quelque chose.

  Tom has found something.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · #2272723 #5364349

• --Veux-tu faire quelque chose pour moi?

  “Will you do something for me?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24902

• Et il les regardait attentivement, s’attendant à recevoir d’eux quelque chose.

  He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 3:5

• Il y a quelque chose dans tout cela.

  There is something in that.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1014886

• Veux-tu manger quelque chose ?

  Do you want something to eat?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1799703 #997576

More sentences

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

• Il faisait si sombre qu'ils pouvaient à peine voir quelque chose.

  It was so dark that they could hardly see.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #34699 #1735854

• Puis-je aider en quelque manière que ce soit ?

  May I be of help in any way?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · #3638764 #3636796

• Tom me demanda s'il se passait quelque chose.

  Tom asked me if anything was the matter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · #3444536 #3866482

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