ville — French to English

How French ville 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: ville (45 281), villes (44 046). By style: everyday 1 469 · literary 77 · biblical 1 128 · parliamentary 4 949 · legal and administrative 4 759 · UN documents 76 945.

cities

Used about 27 798 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 612 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 552 · parliamentary ≈ 1 354 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 032 · UN documents ≈ 23 244).

• L'air est pollué dans les grandes villes.

  Air is polluted in cities.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and mamat · checked, community translation · #279424 #478160

• On voyait tout de suite deux longues rues parallèles sans rupture, sans perturbation, presque en ligne droite, qui traversaient à la fois les trois villes d'un bout à l'autre, du midi au nord, perpendiculairement à la Seine, les liaient, les mêlaient, infusaient, versaient, transvasaient sans relâche le peuple de l'une dans les murs de l'autre, et des trois n'en faisaient qu'une.

  One immediately perceived three long parallel streets, unbroken, undisturbed, traversing, almost in a straight line, all three cities, from one end to the other; from North to South, perpendicularly, to the Seine, which bound them together, mingled them, infused them in each other, poured and transfused the people incessantly, from one to the other, and made one out of the three.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1849

• Kaïn, Guibea, et Thimna; dix villes, et leurs villages.

  Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 15:57

• Je comprends votre point de vue sur les grandes villes.

  I understand your point on big cities.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1354790

• le développement culturel des villes; ou

  the cultural development of cities; or

  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 3143000

city

Used about 23 458 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 444 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 505 · parliamentary ≈ 1 563 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 685 · UN documents ≈ 19 236). Meaning: city in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il vit en ville.

  He lives in the city.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and aka_aj · checked, community translation · #1681406 #10953991

• La ville semblait s'être émue.

  The city seemed to be aroused.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7287

• Et il y eut une grande joie dans cette ville.

  There was great joy in that city.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 8:8

• Ma confiance dans les rouages de cette ville a diminué.

  My confidence in the workings of this city has gone down.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 852010

• Prix payé par la ville

  Price paid by city

  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 856449

town

Used about 19 694 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 383 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 1 302 · legal and administrative ≈ 347 · UN documents ≈ 17 633). Forms: town, towns. Meaning: town in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Spa est une ville thermale.

  Spa is a spa town.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1617668 #1618271

• Nouvelle rumeur dans la petite ville.

  A fresh excitement in the little town.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3585

• Nous n'avons plus assez d'infirmières dans ma ville.

  We do not have enough nurses any more in my town.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1039981

• Ville/rue ou village/région

  Town/Street or Village/Region

  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 1722651

• j) À l ' Organisation des villes arabes: USD 63 388.

  Arab Towns Organization: USD 63,388.

  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 9686733

More sentences

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

• Si on la compare à Tokyo, Londres est une petite ville.

  In comparison with Tokyo, London is small.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and Zifre · checked, community translation · #279731 #393766

• Les gaz d'échappement causent une sérieuse pollution des villes.

  Gas emissions cause serious pollution in urban areas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · #3694548 #997470

• Eschthon engendra la maison de Rapha, Paséach, et Thechinna, père de la ville de Nachasch. Ce sont là les hommes de Réca.

  Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 4:12

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