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# mass — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mass (89 910), masses (2 795). By style: everyday 61 · literary 55 · parliamentary 2 862 · legal and administrative 14 854 · UN documents 74 873.

## masse

Used about 65 735 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 894 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 307 · UN documents ≈ 51 475). Forms: masse, masses.

- A cloud is a **mass** of vapor.
  Un nuage est une **masse** de vapeur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#429824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429824) [\#11225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11225))

- This monstrous **mass** must be made to crumble.
  Il faut faire crouler cette **masse** monstrueuse.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24455)

- **Masses** and dimensions of motor vehicles
  **Masses** et dimensions de véhicules à moteur
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1702996)

- **MASSES** AND DIMENSIONS (f) (g)
  **MASSES** ET DIMENSIONS (f) (g)
  ([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 2043055)

- kerb **mass** of the vehicle
  **masse** en ordre de marche du véhicule
  ([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 20955308)

## More sentences

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

- The priest blessed the congregation at the end of the **mass**.
  La messe terminée, le prêtre bénit l'assemblée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JimBreen and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#245505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/245505) [\#8310838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8310838))

- You should go to **mass** more often.
  Tu devrais aller à la messe plus souvent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1725334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1725334) [\#1329195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1329195))

- The **mass** of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
  L’existence que mènent généralement les hommes, en est une de tranquille désespoir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#841875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841875) [\#2064534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2064534))

## 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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