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# large — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: large (143 994), larges (16). By style: everyday 552 · literary 74 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 15 177 · legal and administrative 11 270 · UN documents 116 898.

## grande

Used about 49 669 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 322 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 8 537 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 226 · UN documents ≈ 36 531). Forms: grand, grande, grandes.

- This is a **large** house.
  C'est une **grande** maison.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3436660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3436660) [\#7971035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7971035))

- The mirror is quite **large**.
  Une glace assez **grande**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30950)

- See with what **large** letters I write to you with my own hand.
  Voyez avec quelles **grandes** lettres je vous ai écrit de ma propre main.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 6:11)

- Parliament is every bit as important as a **large** company.
  Le Parlement vaut bien une **grande** entreprise.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1372262)

- feasibility studies for **large** undertakings,
  des études de faisabilité pour de **grandes** entreprises,
  ([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 1505792)

## large

Used about 8 520 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 949 · legal and administrative ≈ 235 · UN documents ≈ 7 306).

- His lecture had a **large** audience.
  Sa conférence a attiré un **large** public.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#286313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286313) [\#11512124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11512124))

- There was a tolerably **large** crack in the worm-eaten door of his den; he put his face to it.
  Il y avait à la porte vermoulue de son bouge une fente assez **large**, il y colla son visage.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4644)

- He also brought me out into a **large** place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
  Il m’a mis au **large**, Il m’a sauvé, parce qu’il m’aime.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 22:20)

- The crisis is to a **large** extent the co-responsibility of the IMF's and the World Bank's irresponsible and crazy lending policies.
  Dans une **large** mesure, elle est imputable aux politiques irresponsables et insensées du FMI et de la Banque mondiale en matière de prêt.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 351959)

- Advertisement printing for German customers is apparently to a **large** extent done in Germany.
  L'impression de produits publicitaires pour la clientèle allemande se fait apparemment, dans une **large** mesure, en Allemagne.
  ([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 781273)

## nombre

Used about 8 408 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 632 · legal and administrative ≈ 470 · UN documents ≈ 7 306).

- Today's resolution includes a **large** number of action proposals for the Committee.
  La résolution d'aujourd'hui contient un **nombre** important de propositions d'action pour la commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1058456)

- It will create an alternative form of crop-growing for a **large** number of arable farmers (about 1800).
  Bon **nombre** d'agriculteurs (environ 1800) pourront ainsi s'orienter vers une culture de remplacement.
  ([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 1111085)

- 30. Mr. GRISSA asked whether the Church had **large** holdings of land in the Dominican Republic, as was the case in many Latin American countries.
  30. M. GRISSA se demande si l &apos; Eglise possède beaucoup de terrains en République dominicaine, comme c &apos; est le cas dans **nombre** de pays latino—américains.
  ([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 3944269)

- Given the extraordinarily **large** number of amendments tabled, it would be appropriate to make use of a rule that was tailor-made for this sort of situation.
  Vu le **nombre** extraordinairement élevé d'amendements déposés, il conviendrait d'appliquer un article qui a été conçu spécialement pour ce type de situation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 905238)

- Consumers might not be willing to shift to the digital platform until it can carry a **large** number of broadcasters.
  Les consommateurs ne seront vraisemblablement disposés à passer à la plate-forme numérique que quand cette dernière sera en mesure de transmettre un **nombre** élevé de diffuseurs.
  ([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 1133574)

## More sentences

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

- She had to speak before a **large** audience.
  Elle devait parler devant un public nombreux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#311536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/311536) [\#134031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134031))

- Tom has a **large** dick.
  Tom a une grosse queue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1398173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1398173) [\#1396036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1396036))

- He has **large** blue eyes.
  Il a de grands yeux bleus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fanty and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · [\#1580203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1580203) [\#1580245](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1580245))

## 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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