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# greater — English to French

How English *greater* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: greater (140 918). By style: everyday 53 · literary 13 · biblical 70 · parliamentary 16 869 · legal and administrative 11 488 · UN documents 112 425.

## plus

Used about 54 590 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 61 · parliamentary ≈ 5 974 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 675 · UN documents ≈ 46 844).

- God is **greater**.
  Dieu est **plus** grand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13064635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13064635) [\#13064641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13064641))

- “And yet it is perhaps a **greater** danger for you.”
  --Cela est peut-être, cependant, **plus** dangereux pour toi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 720)

- But I tell you that one **greater** than the temple is here.
  Or, je vous le dis, il y a ici quelque chose de **plus** grand que le temple.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:6)

- Furthermore, we need controls with **greater** openness and transparency.
  De surcroît, nos contrôles doivent être **plus** ouverts et plus transparents.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1031391)

- **Greater** than 10 months up to 11 Months
  **Plus** de 10 mois jusqu'à 11 mois
  ([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 3346136)

## grande

Used about 25 791 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 217 · legal and administrative ≈ 479 · UN documents ≈ 21 080).

- I ate a **greater** burdock tempura.
  J'ai mangé un tempura de **grande** bardane.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#837405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/837405) [\#837403](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/837403))

- To hold their peace together; a still **greater** delight than conversation;
  Se taire ensemble; douceur plus **grande** encore que causer;
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21932)

- Thirdly, we are trying to provide **greater** legal certainty for employers.
  Troisièmement, nous tentons d’offrir aux employeurs une plus **grande** certitude juridique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 708290)

- (the **greater** of the two standard deviations sR or sC shall be in the numerator)
  (la plus **grande** des deux valeurs d’écart type sR ou sC doit figurer en numérateur).
  ([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 5471311)

- Donors should take **greater** responsibility for this.
  Les bailleurs de fonds doivent assumer une plus **grande** part de responsabilité en la matière.
  ([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 26200263)

## supérieure

Used about 13 532 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 703 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 137 · UN documents ≈ 4 684). Forms: supérieur, supérieure.

- An integer is natural iff it is **greater** than or equal to 0.
  Un nombre entier est naturel ssi il est **supérieur** ou égal à 0.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#482049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/482049) [\#482029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/482029))

- But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the **greater**.
  Or c’est sans contredit l’inférieur qui est béni par le **supérieur**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 7:7)

- The regulation shall apply to regular services, within and between EU Member States, where the scheduled distance is no **greater** than 250 km.
  Ce règlement s'appliquera aux lignes régulières à l'intérieur des États membres de l'Union européenne et entre les États membres, lorsque la distance prévue est **supérieure** à 250 km.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1492664)

- **Greater** than 35 cm total length
  D'une longueur totale **supérieure** à 35 cm
  ([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 3374075)

- is **greater** than 1 mg/L but less than or equal to 10 mg/L, and the substance is not biodegradable;
  est **supérieure** à 1 mg/l mais inférieure ou égale à 10 mg/l, et la matière n &apos; est pas biodégradable,
  ([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 7565778)

## More sentences

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

- Nothing would give me **greater** pleasure.
  Rien ne me procurerait davantage de plaisir !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1911874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1911874) [\#1925181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1925181))

- The **greater** part of the guests were foreigners.
  La plupart des invités étaient des étrangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Romira · checked, community translation · [\#275945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275945) [\#180945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180945))

- An increasingly **greater** part of the population is not capable of fully utilizing the power of expression of the German language.
  Une part toujours croissante de la population est incapable d'employer pleinement la puissance d'expression de la langue allemande.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1446014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1446014) [\#1447079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1447079))

## 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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