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# months — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: months (139 337). By style: everyday 280 · literary 37 · biblical 55 · parliamentary 11 321 · legal and administrative 28 530 · UN documents 99 114.

## mois

Used about 134 139 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 280 · literary ≈ 36 · biblical ≈ 54 · parliamentary ≈ 10 849 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 936 · UN documents ≈ 94 984).

- 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)

- The objection period lasts six **months**.
  La période d'objection est de six **mois**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1569952)

- Such extensions shall not exceed 6 **months**.
  Cette prolongation ne peut pas excéder six **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 3756304)

## More sentences

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

- “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)

- 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)

- Then we can see whether the Commission really makes any progress in the coming six **months**.
  Nous pourrons ainsi voir au cours du prochain semestre si la Commission fait effectivement des progrès.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 442329)

## Grammar

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