signifie — French to English

How French signifie 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: signifie (35 119), signifies (10). By style: everyday 294 · literary 12 · biblical 36 · parliamentary 9 561 · legal and administrative 3 537 · UN documents 21 689.

mean

Used about 20 481 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 245 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 7 768 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 358 · UN documents ≈ 10 097). Forms: mean, means. Meaning: mean in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Que signifie tout ceci ?

  What's it all mean?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2870141 #4869175

• --Monsieur, cela signifie que je reprends Cosette.

  “It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9209

• Et lorsque vos enfants vous diront: Que signifie pour vous cet usage?

  It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 12:26

• Et que signifie rapidement?

  And what does quickly mean?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1976094

• le terme «jours» signifie jours calendaires;

  ‘days’ means calendar days;

  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 3787689

signifies

Used about 4 119 times in the texts (literary ≈ 6 · UN documents ≈ 4 113).

• Il est inutile d'expliquer le sens de ce mot affreusement transparent qui signifie tout à la fois tuer, assassiner et dévaliser.

  It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21258

• A teardrop signifies the death of a " buddy " .

  A teardrop signifies the death of a " buddy " .

  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 9324678

• Le gamin examina la corde, le tuyau, le mur, les fenêtres, et fit cet inexprimable et dédaigneux bruit des lèvres qui signifie:

  The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:—

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21242

• The term " billion " signifies a thousand million.

  The term " billion " signifies a thousand million.

  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 29933686

• La jeune fille eut ce petit redressement en arrière accompagné d'un haussement de paupières qui signifie: Eh bien, qu'est-ce qu'il a donc?

  The young girl gave way to that slight straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of the eyelids, which signifies: “Well, what is the matter?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15474

More sentences

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

• FMI signifie « Fonds Monétaire International ».

  IMF stands for International Monetary Fund.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #72216 #181661

• Le mot allemand « Verschlimmbesserung » signifie une amélioration supposée qui rend les choses pire.

  The German word "Verschlimmbesserung" refers to a supposed improvement that makes things worse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and al_ex_an_der · checked, community translation · #4457095 #4472176

• Que signifie cette phrase ?

  What is the meaning of this phrase?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CC · checked, community translation · #59607 #571262

Grammar

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