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# measurement — English to French

How English *measurement* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: measurement (37 981), measurements (16 052). By style: everyday 12 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 374 · legal and administrative 15 341 · UN documents 38 297.

## mesure

Used about 39 033 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 224 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 666 · UN documents ≈ 27 127). Forms: mesure, mesures.

- That's an exact **measurement**.
  C'est une **mesure** exacte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2047353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2047353) [\#8553246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8553246))

- He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these **measurements**—
  Il me conduisit vers la porte septentrionale. Il la mesura, et trouva la même **mesure**,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 40:35)

- Units of **measurement** (vote)
  Unités de **mesure** (vote)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1002910)

- Wrap around distance **measurement**
  **Mesure** de la longueur développée
  ([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 5594062)

- N = number of **measurements** \[-\]
  N = nombre de **mesures** \[-\].
  ([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 22765846)

## effectuées

Used about 3 997 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 3 989).

- When **measurements** were taken last Monday in my own home district, the level of acidity was higher than it had been for a very long time.
  Lorsque les mesures ont été **effectuées** lundi dans mon pays, le degré d' acidité était supérieur aux niveaux atteints depuis longtemps.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 169505)

- At least three **measurements** shall be made at each **measurement** point.
  Trois mesures au moins seront **effectuées** en chaque point de mesure.
  ([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 4357406)

- In my opinion, **measurements** should be taken in a truly objective manner and complaints from those living in the vicinity should not be the only point of reference.
  Je trouve que les mesures doivent réellement être **effectuées** de manière objective et qu'il ne faut pas partir exclusivement des plaintes exprimées par les riverains.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 86768)

- At least four **measurements** shall be made on each side of the vehicle and for each gear.
  Quatre mesures au moins sont **effectuées** de chaque côté du véhicule et sur chaque rapport.
  ([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 26386080)

- By means of so-called rheometric **measurements** the effective antenna length vectors could successfully be determined.
  Les mesures **effectuées** à l &apos; aide de rhéomètres ont permis de déterminer les vecteurs longueur d &apos; antenne équivalente.
  ([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 2572553)

## More sentences

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

- What are your **measurements**?
  Quelles sont tes mensurations ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1650244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650244) [\#1650763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650763))

- What are your **measurements**?
  Quelles sont vos mensurations ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1650244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650244) [\#1650765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650765))

- Mary's **measurements** are 36-24-36.
  Les mensurations de Marie sont trente-six vingt-quatre trente-six.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1386876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1386876) [\#1387550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1387550))

## 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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