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# light — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: light (153 514), lights (4 693). By style: everyday 833 · literary 163 · biblical 216 · parliamentary 6 961 · legal and administrative 22 568 · UN documents 127 466.

## feux

Used about 52 000 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 659 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 526 · UN documents ≈ 47 800).

- There are no traffic **lights** on the motorway.
  Il n'y a pas de **feux** de circulation sur l'autoroute.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10977116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10977116) [\#10977782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10977782))

- “Ah,” said Mr. Fogg, “is that place where we see the **lights** Queenstown?”
  --Ah! fit Mr. Fogg, c'est Queenstown, cette ville dont nous apercevons les **feux**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3006)

- The traffic **lights** are misleading.
  Les **feux** de signalisation sont trompeurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1398020)

- runway edge **lights**; or
  les **feux** de bord de piste; ou
  ([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 1589930)

- Number of blue cones/**lights**
  Nombre de cônes, **feux** bleus
  ([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 20902804)

## lumière

Used about 24 002 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 495 · literary ≈ 87 · biblical ≈ 121 · parliamentary ≈ 2 125 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 586 · UN documents ≈ 18 589). Forms: lumière, lumières.

- I can see the **light**.
  Je peux voir la **lumière**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and martin9 · checked, community translation · [\#323700](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/323700) [\#1608566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1608566))

- What is the use of “half-**lights**”?
  À quoi bon les «demi-**lumières**»?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12685)

- While I am in the world, I am the **light** of the world.”
  Pendant que je suis dans le monde, je suis la **lumière** du monde.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 9:5)

- (**Lights** in the chamber were malfunctioning) Dell'Alba (TDI).
  (La **lumière** fonctionne mal dans la salle) Dell'Alba (TDI).
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2042352)

- The regular **light** transmittance shall not be less than 70 per cent.
  Le facteur de transmission régulière de la **lumière** ne doit pas être inférieur à 70 %.
  ([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 5517846)

## éclairage

Used about 17 185 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 220 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 351 · UN documents ≈ 14 605).

- I hate fluorescent **lights**.
  Je déteste l'**éclairage** fluorescent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2178964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2178964) [\#3658899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3658899))

- I agree it should be possible to turn off daytime running **lights**.
  Je considère également qu'il doit être possible d'exclure l'**éclairage** de jour.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 340498)

- the **light** source module specific identification code.
  le code d’identification propre au module d’**éclairage**;
  ([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 5455490)

- Lighting and **Light**-Signalling (GRE) TRANS/WP.29/GRE/46
  **Éclairage** et signalisation lumineuse (GRE)
  ([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 8483526)

- Secondly, it was forecast in Ireland that the euro as a currency would be something like a vehicle with no brakes, no steering wheel and no **lights**.
  Deuxièmement, en Irlande on s'imaginait que l'euro, en tant que monnaie, serait comme une voiture sans freins, sans volant et sans **éclairage**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1159925)

## More sentences

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

- The **light** bulb has burned out.
  L'ampoule a grillé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#279159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279159) [\#626188](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/626188))

- Can you do with a **light** meal for lunch?
  Pouvez-vous vous contenter d'un repas léger pour le déjeuner ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi\_alt and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#70152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/70152) [\#398155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/398155))

- You ran a red **light**.
  Tu es passé au feu rouge.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#15950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15950) [\#1788143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1788143))

## 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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