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# depth — English to French

How English *depth* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: depth (29 110), depths (1 054). By style: everyday 29 · literary 56 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 2 015 · legal and administrative 2 509 · UN documents 25 527.

## profondeur

Used about 12 186 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 672 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 882 · UN documents ≈ 9 573). Forms: profondeur, profondeurs.

- The **depth** is important.
  La **profondeur** est importante.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#13111008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13111008) [\#13109447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13109447))

- The **depth** is sometimes very great.
  **Profondeur** quelquefois très grande.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27912)

- Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the **depths** of the pit.
  Mais tu as été précipité dans le séjour des morts, Dans les **profondeurs** de la fosse.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 14:15)

- Some of these issues have been discussed in **depth**.
  Certaines de ces questions ont été débattues en **profondeur**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 12635)

- Limited **depth**, only skin involved
  **Profondeur** limitée, peau uniquement
  ([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 1969765)

## More sentences

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

- As I'm not good at swimming, I avoid swimming out of my **depth**.
  Vu que je ne sais pas trop nager, j'évite d'aller là où je n'ai pas pied.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1058987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1058987) [\#1058980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1058980))

- Putin is genuinely unable to understand the **depth** of the reaction to the violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty.
  Poutine est vraiment incapable de comprendre la profonde réaction au viol de la souveraineté ukrainienne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11213620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11213620) [\#11213624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11213624))

- It shows the **depth** of his love for his family.
  Cela montre son amour profond envers sa famille.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orcrist and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#42554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42554) [\#774564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/774564))

## 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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