second — French to English

How French second 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: second (41 705), seconde (27 409), secondes (5 429), seconds (1 183). By style: everyday 373 · literary 64 · biblical 189 · parliamentary 6 363 · legal and administrative 8 765 · UN documents 59 972.

second

Used about 57 394 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 314 · literary ≈ 59 · biblical ≈ 165 · parliamentary ≈ 4 640 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 300 · UN documents ≈ 45 916). Forms: second, seconds. Meaning: second in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Accorde-moi une seconde !

  Give me a second.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1841171 #1845941

• J'entrai dans la seconde.

  I entered the second.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5290

• Le second et le troisième épousèrent la veuve;

  The second took her as wife, and he died childless.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:30

• J'en viens maintenant à ma seconde question.

  And for my second question.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 355911

• The Plant-Book, seconde édition [D.

  The Plant-Book, second edition, [D.

  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 988570

latter

Used about 4 845 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 762 · legal and administrative ≈ 639 · UN documents ≈ 3 436). Meaning: latter in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La seconde moitié du film était intéressante.

  The latter half of the film was interesting.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and vijaysharma · checked, community translation · #2286356 #12179582

• Les premiers appartiennent à la zone euro, les seconds se trouvent en dehors.

  The former are members of the euro area, the latter are not.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1238405

• Les seconds doivent suivre les modèles de l’annexe 3.

  The latter shall be set out as in Annex 3.

  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 1370718

• Dans certains pays, les seconds faisaient partie intégrante des premiers.

  In some countries the latter was part of the former.

  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 3739345

• J. J. Thomson et son fils George Thomson ont tous deux reçu le prix Nobel de physique : le premier, en 1906, pour avoir démontré que l'électron est une particule ; le second, en 1937, pour avoir montré que l'électron est une onde.

  J. J. Thomson and his son George Thomson were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: the former in 1906 for demonstrating that the electron is a particle, and the latter in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10610286 #10610291

More sentences

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

• Les élections se dirigent vers un second tour.

  The elections head to a run-off.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and enebi · checked, community translation · #11765052 #11765057

• Christophe Colomb était connu pour arrêter habituellement son réveille-matin d'un puissant coup de poing. Malheureusement, en ce temps-là, son réveille-matin était son Second.

  Christopher Columbus was notorious for repeatedly snoozing his alarm clock by hitting it with his fist. Unfortunately, his "alarm clock" was usually his first mate.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · #551085 #763385

• La femme doit-elle toujours jouer le second rôle ?

  Must the woman always play the secondary role?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Jesse · checked, community translation · #267312 #491114

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