terre — French to English

How French terre 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: terre (55 444), terres (69 711). By style: everyday 867 · literary 140 · biblical 1 059 · parliamentary 4 039 · legal and administrative 10 713 · UN documents 108 337.

land

Used about 58 034 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 263 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 294 · parliamentary ≈ 1 641 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 790 · UN documents ≈ 53 040). Meaning: land in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il possède beaucoup de terre.

  He owns a lot of land.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #611744 #4556732

• Mon oncle, se tournant vers l'ouest, m'indiqua de la main une légère vapeur, une brume, une apparence de terre qui dominait la ligne des flots.

  My uncle pointed out to me in the far west a light steam or mist, a semblance of land, which bounded the distant horizon of waters.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1365

• Terre, où retentit le cliquetis des armes, Au-delà des fleuves de l’Éthiopie!

  Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 18:1

• Les terres cultivables augmenteront de 55 %.

  Cultivable land will increase by 55%.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409173

• Autres cultures de terres arables

  Other arable land crops

  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 5294088

earth

Used about 21 187 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 154 · literary ≈ 60 · biblical ≈ 529 · parliamentary ≈ 379 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 009 · UN documents ≈ 18 056). Meaning: earth in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La Terre est une sphère.

  The Earth is a sphere.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #8107929 #8107926

• --On la portera en terre.

  “It will be given to the earth.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11725

• Le ciel et la terre passeront, mais mes paroles ne passeront point.

  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 13:31

• Aujourd'hui, cette terre nourricière d'autrefois, nous la regardons avec suspicion.

  What was once our mother Earth we now regard with suspicion.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 989383

• Terres colorantes, calcinées ou pulvérisées

  Earth colours, calcined or powdered

  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 69132

potatoes

Used about 6 107 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 210 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 339 · UN documents ≈ 4 514).

• Je pèle le céleri et les pommes de terre.

  I am peeling the celery and the potatoes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and wma · checked, community translation · #528547 #354530

• Nous pouvons comparer ce secteur à celui de la pomme de terre.

  There is a similar sector, potatoes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1656718

• Préparations et conserves à base de pommes de terre

  Potatoes prepared or preserved

  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 2679703

• des pommes de terre de primeur et de conservation 24-25 mars 2003 2003/6

  Early and Ware Potatoes 24-25 March 2003 2003/6

  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 12042505

• As-tu fait cuire les pommes de terre en robe des champs ?

  Did you cook the potatoes in their jackets?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and patgfisher · checked, community translation · #3703113 #11734742

More sentences

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

• Le ver de terre est dans le sol.

  The earthworm is in the ground.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Kevre · checked, community translation · #5977801 #9978384

• Il y a eu hier un fort tremblement de terre.

  There was a strong earthquake yesterday.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and sundown · checked, community translation · #10551480 #10712351

• La pomme de terre est une solanacée.

  The potato is a nightshade.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #10461845 #10461849

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