surface — French to English

How French surface 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: surface (34 864), surfaces (6 601). By style: everyday 76 · literary 26 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 896 · legal and administrative 15 461 · UN documents 24 978.

surface

Used about 27 284 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 48 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 243 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 214 · UN documents ≈ 18 734). Forms: surface, surfaces. Meaning: surface in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La surface de cette table est lisse.

  This table's surface is smooth.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and keira_n · checked, community translation · #1079144 #1642802

• La surface de cette cohue était grise, sale et terreuse.

  The surface of this rabble was dingy, dirty, earthy.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5645

• Mais une vapeur s’éleva de la terre, et arrosa toute la surface du sol.

  but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 2:6

• En Finlande, les eaux de surface sont très propres.

  In Finland surface waters are very clean.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 11567

• degré, 愦灭;lt; 6 % de la surface corporelle

  , 愦灭;lt; 6 % of body surface

  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 5668282

area

Used about 5 069 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 140 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 577 · UN documents ≈ 2 342). Meaning: area in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'arbitre a sifflé une faute dans la surface. C'est penalty.

  The referee called a foul inside the area. It's a penalty.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and DJ_Saidez · checked, community translation · #9182470 #11223842

• Les surfaces de cultures céréalières de l'UE doivent maintenant être étendues.

  Now the area of cereal-growing land in the EU is to be expanded.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1624913

• Surface en cm2 par kg

  Area in cm2 per kg

  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 629233

• La surface terrestre est d ' environ 352 kilomètres carrés.

  The total land area is about 352 square kilometres.

  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 21926380

• L'arbitre a sifflé une faute dans la surface. C'est penalty.

  The referee blew for a foul inside the area. It's a penalty.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · #11818423 #11223842

More sentences

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

• Le sous-marin est remonté à la surface.

  The submarine has surfaced.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and sundown · checked, community translation · #10361113 #3177486

• Il aurait déjà dû remonter à la surface.

  He should have surfaced by now.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · #12411727 #12422465

• La pollution de l'environnement déclencha des changements climatiques sur toute la surface de la Terre.

  Environmental pollution triggered climatic changes all over Earth.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and nonong · checked, community translation · #1594185 #1595440

Grammar

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