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# month — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: month (68 647), months (139 337). By style: everyday 795 · literary 59 · biblical 233 · parliamentary 14 978 · legal and administrative 39 301 · UN documents 152 618.

## mois

Used about 187 705 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 787 · literary ≈ 57 · biblical ≈ 231 · parliamentary ≈ 14 198 · legal and administrative ≈ 38 892 · UN documents ≈ 133 541).

- A year has twelve **months**.
  Une année a douze **mois**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and jerom · checked, community translation · [\#73060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/73060) [\#449025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/449025))

- And six **months** paid in advance.”
  Et six **mois** payés d'avance.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3401)

- You observe days, **months**, seasons, and years.
  Vous observez les jours, les **mois**, les temps et les années!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:10)

- A day, a week, a **month**?
  Un jour, une semaine, un **mois**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 470017)

- YY = day of the **month**;
  YY = jour du **mois**;
  ([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 5180250)

## après

Used about 1 591 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 590).

- I have been in prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three **months**; more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, ‘Answer!’
  **Après** ça, je ne peux pas dire, on parle contre moi, on me dit: répondez! le gendarme, qui est bon enfant, me pousse le coude et me dit tout bas: réponds donc.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6068)

- Number of bodies delivered within 30 minutes after arrival of client and % of total for a given train. Accumulated total per **month** per train
  Nombre de caisses livrées dans les 30 minutes **après** l &apos; arrivée du client et % par rapport au total, pour un train donné.
  ([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 9848859)

## six

Used about 1 590 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 590).

- Following the expiration of the period provided by the six-**month** rule, the Working Group decided to clarify eight cases.
  Following the expiration of the period provided by the **six**-month rule, the Working Group decided to clarify eight cases.
  ([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 25694357)

## More sentences

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

- It's the **month** of Prairial.
  Nous sommes en prairial.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13960167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13960167) [\#13960138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13960138))

- “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your **months**, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
  Dans vos jours de joie, dans vos fêtes, et à vos nouvelles lunes, vous sonnerez des trompettes, en offrant vos holocaustes et vos sacrifices d’actions de grâces, et elles vous mettront en souvenir devant votre Dieu. Je suis l’Éternel, votre Dieu.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 10:10)

- The gypsy made her little pout, from impatience, and pressed the spout to the tusked **month** of Quasimodo, with a smile.
  L'égyptienne fit sa petite moue avec impatience, et appuya en souriant le goulot à la bouche dentue de Quasimodo.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3555)

## 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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