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# larger — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: larger (24 161). By style: everyday 81 · literary 2 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 1 625 · legal and administrative 2 594 · UN documents 19 857.

## grand

Used about 5 466 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 102 · legal and administrative ≈ 378 · UN documents ≈ 4 964). Forms: grand, grandes.

- Canada is **larger** than Japan.
  Le Canada est plus **grand** que le Japon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zmoo · checked, community translation · [\#63631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/63631) [\#373693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/373693))

- On looking more closely, he perceived that the circle was much **larger** than was required simply for the purpose of getting warm at the king’s fire, and that this concourse of people had not been attracted solely by the beauty of the hundred fagots which were burning.
  En examinant de plus près, il s'aperçut que le cercle était beaucoup plus **grand** qu'il ne fallait pour se chauffer au feu du roi, et que cette affluence de spectateurs n'était pas uniquement attirée par la beauté du cent de bourrées qui brûlait.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 877)

- You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the **larger** groups you shall give a **larger** inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
  Vous partagerez le pays par le sort, selon vos familles. A ceux qui sont en plus **grand** nombre vous donnerez une portion plus grande, et à ceux qui sont en plus petit nombre vous donnerez une portion plus petite. Chacun possédera ce qui lui sera échu par le sort: vous le recevrez en propriété, selon les tribus de vos pères.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 33:54)

- Regarding SMEs, when it comes to health they have the same obligations as the **larger** industries.
  Concernant les PME, lorsqu’il s’agit de santé, ils ont les mêmes obligations que les **grandes** entreprises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 682106)

- Does the company belong to a **larger** business group?
  L'entreprise appartient-elle à un groupe commercial plus **grand**?
  ([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 5618108)

## More sentences

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

- Japan's population is **larger** than that of Britain and France put together.
  La population du Japon est plus grande que celles de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne réunies.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#281425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281425) [\#129714](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129714))

- The population of Japan is **larger** than that of Britain.
  La population du Japon est plus importante que celle de la Grande-Bretagne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#281426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281426) [\#331177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/331177))

- Algeria's naval bases need to be extended to accommodate **larger** warships.
  Les bases navales algériennes ont besoin d'être agrandies pour accueillir de plus gros navires.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10138797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10138797) [\#11958334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958334))

## 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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