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# measure — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: measure (95 447), measures (763 936). By style: everyday 79 · literary 11 · biblical 69 · parliamentary 42 988 · legal and administrative 176 541 · UN documents 639 695.

## mesure

Used about 711 348 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 34 480 · legal and administrative ≈ 163 668 · UN documents ≈ 513 089). Forms: mesure, mesurer, mesures.

- **Measures** were taken.
  Des **mesures** furent prises.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and calypsow · checked, community translation · [\#6698012](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6698012) [\#11860692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11860692))

- They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though taking each other’s **measure**.
  Ils se considérèrent un moment dans cette pénombre, comme s'ils se prenaient **mesure**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28083)

- Fill up, then, the **measure** of your fathers.
  Comblez donc la **mesure** 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 · MAT 23:32)

- That is the first **measure**.
  Cela c'est la première **mesure**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 316335)

- Emergency **measures** in case of an accident
  **Mesures** d’urgence en cas d’accident
  ([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 2393028)

## More sentences

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

- He just doesn't **measure** up.
  Il n'est juste pas à la hauteur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#589418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/589418) [\#589423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/589423))

- **Measure** each angle of the triangle.
  Mesurez chaque angle du triangle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#2450025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2450025) [\#6815437](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6815437))

- She's got the **measure** of you.
  Elle t'a jaugé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AMIKEMA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1470180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1470180) [\#1470893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1470893))

## 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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