quoi — French to English

How French quoi 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: quoi (34 790). By style: everyday 2 812 · literary 99 · biblical 158 · parliamentary 9 021 · legal and administrative 1 476 · UN documents 21 224.

how

Used about 3 123 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 188 · legal and administrative ≈ 246 · UN documents ≈ 2 653). Meaning: how in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Car il sait de quoi nous sommes formés, Il se souvient que nous sommes poussière.

  For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 103:14

• Ils ne nous ont jamais réellement signalé combien de contrôleurs contrôlaient quoi, quand et où au sein des États membres.

  They have never really reported to us about how many supervisors in the Member States supervise what, when and where.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2012357

• les durées de vie des mesures et la méthode pour les calculer ou ce sur quoi elles se fondent;

  the lifetimes of measures, and how they are calculated or what they are based upon;

  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 4572709

• Et en quoi l ' approche sexospécifique s ' écarte-t-elle de celle qui ne porte que sur les femmes?

  And how is the gender approach different from one that focuses only on 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 5223671

• Abram répondit: Seigneur Éternel, à quoi connaîtrai-je que je le posséderai?

  He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 15:8

know

Used about 1 525 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 762 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 752). Meaning: know in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je sais quoi ignorer.

  I know what to ignore.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2376337 #2385895

• Savez-vous de quoi il est question ici?

  Do you know what the question is here?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25623

• Mais quoi! N’avez-vous point interrogé les voyageurs, Et voulez-vous méconnaître ce qu’ils prouvent?

  Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:29

• Reconnaissez-le franchement, nous saurons ainsi à quoi nous en tenir.

  Just say it honestly, and then we will know where we stand.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 465821

• Tom ne sait pas quoi dire.

  Tom doesn't know what to say.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Khirthash and CK · checked, community translation · #1026079 #3113011

More sentences

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

• Eh, c'est quoi ça ?

  Hey, what's that?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3448814 #6283943

• Tu ferais quoi si t'étais un écureuil ?

  If you were a squirrel, what would you do?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blizb and sharris123 · checked, community translation · #7770339 #11162577

• Hé ! Quoi de neuf ?

  Hi! What's new?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #30308 #13698

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