siècle — French to English

How French siècle 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: siècle (31 330), siècles (3 652). By style: everyday 179 · literary 76 · biblical 50 · parliamentary 3 933 · legal and administrative 239 · UN documents 30 505.

century

Used about 32 965 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 164 · literary ≈ 67 · parliamentary ≈ 3 605 · legal and administrative ≈ 212 · UN documents ≈ 28 916). Forms: centuries, century. Meaning: century in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce n'est pas le XIXe siècle.

  It's not the 19th century.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and shekitten · checked, community translation · #9534278 #9793915

• On n'est pas impunément un siècle.

  One is not a century with impunity.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13155

• C'était il y a 15 siècles.

  That was 15 centuries ago.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1362019

• Du XXe siècle à nos jours

  20th century to the present

  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 4578824

• Des siècles d ' histoire nous le prouvent.

  Centuries of history teach us this lesson.

  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 23765027

first

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1). Meaning: first in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quelle force naturelle pouvait produire de telles plantes, et quel devait être l'aspect de la terre aux premiers siècles de sa formation, quand, sous l'action de la chaleur et de l'humidité, le règne végétal se développait seul à sa surface!

  What natural force could have produced such plants, and what must have been the appearance of the earth in the first ages of its formation, when, under the action of heat and moisture, the vegetable kingdom alone was developing on its surface?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2764

twenty

Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: twenty in the Elamur Dictionary.

• les vingt-quatre vieillards se prosternent devant celui qui est assis sur le trône, et ils adorent celui qui vit aux siècles des siècles, et ils jettent leurs couronnes devant le trône, en disant:

  the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 4:10

More sentences

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

• La vie est courte, même si elle dure plus d'un siècle.

  Life is short, even if it lasts more than a hundred years.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nbrr and CarpeLanam · checked, community translation · #5150330 #5149902

• La conception de base de l'humble trombone n'a pas été altérée en un siècle.

  The basic design of the humble paper clip has not changed in over one hundred years.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #1686182 #1725759

• Des siècles ont passé depuis qu'une seule personne pouvait saisir l'ensemble de la connaissance scientifique.

  It's been hundreds of years since just one person could grasp the whole of scientific knowledge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #968083 #968330

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