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# fourth — English to French

How English *fourth* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fourth (149 089), fourths (533). By style: everyday 42 · literary 8 · biblical 84 · parliamentary 1 861 · legal and administrative 4 831 · UN documents 142 796.

## quatrième

Used about 74 130 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 32 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 1 512 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 592 · UN documents ≈ 69 911).

- I'm in my **fourth** month.
  J'en suis à mon **quatrième** mois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5222264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5222264) [\#8643579](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8643579))

- Finally, Marius opened the **fourth** letter.
  Marius ouvrit enfin la **quatrième** lettre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15886)

- Nohah the **fourth**, and Rapha the fifth.
  Nocha le **quatrième**, et Rapha le cinquième.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 8:2)

- The **fourth** is capacities.
  Le **quatrième** concerne les capacités.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 659441)

- EUR 60000 for the **fourth** year
  60000 EUR la **quatrième** année,
  ([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 1257238)

## quarts

Used about 71 741 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 826 · UN documents ≈ 69 911).

- I walked three-**fourths** of a mile.
  J'ai marché trois **quarts** de mile.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#72571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72571) [\#14868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14868))

- Adoption of a proposed amendment shall require a three-**fourths** majority of the votes of all Contracting Parties.
  Les projets d’amendement sont adoptés par une majorité des trois **quarts** de toutes les parties contractantes.
  ([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 2029975)

- Smaller than three-**fourths** halves
  Plus petit que trois **quarts** de moitiés
  ([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 5511279)

- Three-**fourths** of the earth's surface is water.
  Trois **quarts** de la surface de la Terre est de l'eau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and aimablealpaga · checked, community translation · [\#277108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277108) [\#430891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/430891))

- The Assembly may decide that certain provisions of the Regulations may be amended only by unanimity or only by a three-**fourths** majority.
  L’Assemblée peut décider que certaines dispositions du règlement d’exécution peuvent être modifiées seulement à l’unanimité ou seulement à la majorité des trois **quarts**.
  ([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 315466)

## année

Used about 1 489 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 1 487).

- Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, the third part of a hin for the ram, and the **fourth** part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
  Les libations seront d’un demi-hin de vin pour un taureau, d’un tiers de hin pour un bélier, et d’un quart de hin pour un agneau. C’est l’holocauste du commencement du mois, pour chaque mois, pour tous les mois de l’**année**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 28:14)

- This year, Mongolians have participated in their **fourth** parliamentary election.
  Cette **année**, les Mongols ont participé aux quatrièmes élections législatives.
  ([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 11550453)

## parties

Used about 118 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 118).

- An adjustment proposed by a Party included in Annex I to increase the ambition of its quantified emission limitation and reduction commitment in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 1 ter, above shall be considered adopted by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol unless more than three-**fourths** of the Parties present and voting object to its adoption.
  L'ajustement adopté est communiqué par le secrétariat au Dépositaire, qui le transmet à toutes les **parties**, et il entre en vigueur le 1er janvier de l'année suivant la communication par le Dépositaire.
  ([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 149467)

## troisième

Used about 3 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 2). Forms: trois, troisième.

- My office is on the **fourth** floor of that gray six-story building.
  Mon bureau est au **troisième** étage de cet immeuble gris de cinq étages.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#251001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251001) [\#1189659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1189659))

- Three of them were portresses, and the **fourth** was a rag-picker with her basket on her back.
  C'étaient **trois** portières et une chiffonnière avec sa hotte et son crochet.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23263)

- These four legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which dulls; and the **fourth**, that which brutalizes.
  Ces quatre légendes exprimaient les quatre degrés que descend l'ivrogne; la première ivresse, celle qui égaye; la deuxième, celle qui irrite; la **troisième**, celle qui hébète; la dernière enfin, celle qui abrutit.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10795)

## More sentences

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

- I'm in my **fourth** month.
  Je suis enceinte de quatre mois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and eS · checked, community translation · [\#5222264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5222264) [\#4077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4077))

- For the seventy-**fourth** time, he fell, dead of exhaustion.
  À la soixante-quatorzième fois, il est tombé, mort d'épuisement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gulliver and christian63 · checked, community translation · [\#6302503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6302503) [\#5972110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5972110))

- I come here every **Fourth** of July.
  Je viens ici tous les 4 juillet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#259739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259739) [\#127540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/127540))

## 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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