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# eight — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: eight (47 482), eights (11). By style: everyday 260 · literary 49 · biblical 77 · parliamentary 2 177 · legal and administrative 2 777 · UN documents 42 153.

## huit

Used about 37 804 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 239 · literary ≈ 48 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 1 905 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 256 · UN documents ≈ 33 279).

- I have **eight** brothers.
  J'ai **huit** frères.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ferka and rafael8243 · checked, community translation · [\#2775712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2775712) [\#2029177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2029177))

- It was **eight** in the evening.
  Il était **huit** heures du soir.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1902)

- The children of Bebai: six hundred twenty-**eight**.
  les fils de Bébaï, six cent vingt-**huit**;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:16)

- There were **eight** mullahs.
  Les mollahs étaient **huit**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755272)

- have two, four, six or **eight** poles;
  ont deux, quatre, six ou **huit** pôles;
  ([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 5017281)

## More sentences

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

- The English lesson started at half past **eight**.
  Le cours d'anglais commença à 8 h 30.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Archibald · checked, community translation · [\#12374103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12374103) [\#12081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12081))

- He always leaves for work at **eight** in the morning.
  Il part tout le temps au travail à 8 heures.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#11994447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11994447) [\#7063868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7063868))

- By summit, do you mean the Group of **Eight**?
  Par sommet, voulez-vous dire le G8 ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and verogc · checked, community translation · [\#328427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328427) [\#798163](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/798163))

## 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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