quelques — French to English

How French quelques 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: quelques (98 831). By style: everyday 1 421 · literary 215 · biblical 141 · parliamentary 21 795 · legal and administrative 1 917 · UN documents 73 342.

some

Used about 42 281 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 414 · literary ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 100 · parliamentary ≈ 2 724 · legal and administrative ≈ 799 · UN documents ≈ 38 199). 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

• Depuis quelques jours il l'appelait «la veuve».

  For some days past he had spoken of her as “the widow.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 178

• 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

• Naturellement, nous devons toutefois formuler quelques conditions.

  But we must formulate some conditions, of course.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1833669

• 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 30 361 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 799 · literary ≈ 90 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 13 622 · legal and administrative ≈ 559 · UN documents ≈ 15 280). 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

• Ils avaient encore quelques petits poissons, et Jésus, ayant rendu grâces, les fit aussi distribuer.

  They also had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 8:7

• 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

there

Used about 1 531 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 1 528). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quelques Grecs, du nombre de ceux qui étaient montés pour adorer pendant la fête,

  Now there were certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 12:20

• Mais il y a un grand déséquilibre dans ces flux qui sont canalisés essentiellement vers quelques pays considérés comme attrayants.

  But there is a great imbalance in these flows, which go principally to a handful of countries viewed as attractive.

  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 3506910

like

Used about 484 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 454). Meaning: like in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'aimerais te poser quelques questions.

  I'd like to ask you a couple of questions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1936555 #1942360

• 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

More sentences

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

• Je t'appellerai dans quelques jours.

  I'll phone you in a couple of days.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · #10540332 #6843506

• Tom a dit qu'il allait faire ça dans quelques jours.

  Tom said he'd do that in a couple of days.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aperitero and CK · checked, community translation · #6242422 #6604032

• As-tu quelques conseils pour moi ?

  Do you have any advice for me?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #277645 #129362

Grammar

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