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# half — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: half (61 738). By style: everyday 462 · literary 131 · biblical 114 · parliamentary 5 894 · legal and administrative 4 867 · UN documents 50 270.

## moitié

Used about 28 167 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 202 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 2 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 535 · UN documents ≈ 23 040).

- That's your **half**.
  C'est votre **moitié**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3723662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3723662) [\#5945497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5945497))

- **Half** of progress, quasi-right.
  **Moitié** de progrès; quasi-droit.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18099)

- and after them went Hoshaiah, with **half** of the princes of Judah,
  Derrière ce chœur marchaient Hosée et la **moitié** des chefs de Juda,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 12:32)

- About **half** my country lies below sea level.
  Pratiquement la **moitié** des Pays-Bas est située en-dessous du niveau de la mer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1685180)

- 3 More than **half** the days
  Plus de la **moitié** du temps
  ([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 2878649)

## demi

Used about 14 616 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 183 · literary ≈ 90 · biblical ≈ 59 · parliamentary ≈ 2 087 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 724 · UN documents ≈ 10 473). Forms: demi, demie.

- It's **half** past two.
  Il est deux heures et **demie**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ergulis and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#8793074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8793074) [\#8968748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8968748))

- My pulse beat **half**-seconds.
  Mon pouls battait des **demi**-secondes.
  ([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 3677)

- Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the **half**-tribe of Manasseh,
  Alors Josué appela les Rubénites, les Gadites et la **demi**-tribu de Manassé.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 22:1)

- Reportedly no less than four and a **half** million out of six million inhabitants voted.
  Sur six millions d' habitants, pas moins de quatre millions et **demi** auraient en effet voté.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 208387)

- Carcases and **half**-carcases
  Carcasses ou **demi**-carcasses
  ([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 4386711)

## moins

Used about 19 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19).

- I can do it in **half** the time.
  Je peux le faire en deux fois **moins** de temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#249657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249657) [\#1347139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1347139))

- Gas cookers consume **half** the amount of energy as electric cookers.
  Les cuisinières à gaz consomment deux fois **moins** d'énergie que les cuisinières électriques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gulliver and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#2313834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2313834) [\#2313551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2313551))

## More sentences

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

- Tom ran outside **half**-naked.
  Tom courut dehors torse nu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and tras · checked, community translation · [\#7117358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7117358) [\#7242681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7242681))

- Nothing except a battle lost can be **half** so melancholy as a battle won.
  Rien, à part une bataille perdue, ne peut être aussi mélancolique qu’une bataille gagnée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13057609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13057609) [\#13057611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13057611))

- Cut it in **half**.
  Coupe-le en deux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#41774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/41774) [\#12431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12431))

## 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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