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# century — English to French

How English *century* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [century in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/century/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: centuries (3 880), century (32 423). By style: everyday 175 · literary 71 · parliamentary 3 902 · legal and administrative 256 · UN documents 31 899.

## siècle

Used about 33 638 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 170 · literary ≈ 68 · parliamentary ≈ 3 617 · legal and administrative ≈ 210 · UN documents ≈ 29 573). Forms: siècle, siècles.

- It's not the 19th **century**.
  Ce n'est pas le XIXe **siècle**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#9534278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9534278) [\#9793915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9793915))

- One is not a **century** with impunity.
  On n'est pas impunément un **siècle**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13155)

- This regime has no place in the 21st **century**.
  Ce dernier n'a pas sa place au XXIe **siècle**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1273928)

- The 17th, 18th and 19th **centuries**
  Aux XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe **siècles**
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 4578814)

- **Centuries** of history teach us this lesson.
  Des **siècles** d &apos; histoire nous le prouvent.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23765027)

## depuis

Used about 3 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 3).

- The production of Bratwürste in Nuremberg is a **centuries**-old tradition which can be proved to go back to 1313.
  La production de Bratwürste à Nuremberg est une tradition séculaire attestée **depuis** 1313.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3002678)

## More sentences

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

- This is a **century**-old tree.
  C'est un arbre centenaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#10288323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10288323) [\#7774205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7774205))

- Yennayer is a **centuries** old tradition.
  Yennayer est une tradition séculaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#8560339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8560339) [\#12184763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12184763))

- There are turtles that are more than two **centuries** old.
  Il y a des tortues qui ont plus de deux cents ans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3436397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3436397) [\#977134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/977134))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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