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# heavy — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: heavies (1), heavy (33 825). By style: everyday 277 · literary 38 · biblical 36 · parliamentary 2 074 · legal and administrative 3 145 · UN documents 28 256.

## lourd

Used about 23 493 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 162 · literary ≈ 25 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 210 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 490 · UN documents ≈ 19 606). Forms: lourd, lourde, lourdes, lourds.

- This bed is **heavy**.
  Ce lit pèse **lourd**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#463254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/463254) [\#584623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/584623))

- The air is **heavy**; the sea is calm.
  L'air est **lourd**, la mer est calme.
  ([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 3097)

- A stone is **heavy**, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
  La pierre est pesante et le sable est **lourd**, Mais l’humeur de l’insensé pèse plus que l’un et l’autre.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 27:3)

- Another **heavy** burden is the Roma issue.
  La question des Roms est un autre **lourd** fardeau.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 731488)

- 20 mg/kg or more of **heavy** metals,
  20 mg/kg ou plus de métaux **lourds**,
  ([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 3761784)

## More sentences

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

- It is dangerous to fly in this **heavy** fog.
  Il est dangereux de voler par cet épais brouillard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by human600 and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#282263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/282263) [\#330894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330894))

- The match has been cancelled because of **heavy** rain.
  Le match a été annulé en raison de la forte pluie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Sibelius · checked, community translation · [\#12526884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12526884) [\#1120570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1120570))

- The accident seemed to have something to do with the **heavy** snow.
  L'accident semblait avoir à faire avec la neige profonde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#47099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47099) [\#792463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/792463))

## 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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