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# multiple — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: multiple (30 898), multiples (345). By style: everyday 28 · parliamentary 574 · legal and administrative 4 821 · UN documents 25 820.

## multiples

Used about 24 543 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 324 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 766 · UN documents ≈ 20 441). Forms: multiple, multiples.

- This problem has **multiple** causes.
  Ce problème a des causes **multiples**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5756568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5756568) [\#11406255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11406255))

- It is really only by the grace of God that today we are not talking about **multiple** fatalities.
  Par la grâce de Dieu, nous ne parlons pas aujourd'hui de décès **multiples**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1485348)

- Issuance of **multiple**-entry visas
  Délivrance de visas à entrées **multiples**
  ([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 3862630)

- in **multiples** of 100 square feet.
  in **multiples** of 100 square feet.
  ([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 24720642)

- Sixteen is one of the **multiples** of two.
  Seize est un des **multiples** de deux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#11671357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11671357) [\#6211836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6211836))

## unités

Used about 50 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 50).

- Unpacked or unpackaged, **multiple** units
  Non emballé ni conditionné, plusieurs **unités**
  ([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 2663370)

## More sentences

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

- They knocked on the door **multiple** times, but they refuse to open it for them.
  Ils ont frappé plusieurs fois à la porte, mais ils refusent de la leur ouvrir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and slahatuvelli · checked, community translation · [\#13816273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13816273) [\#12850206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12850206))

- **Multiple** nuclear missiles descended upon humanity.
  De nombreux missiles nucléaires se sont abattus sur l'humanité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11753587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11753587) [\#11838198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11838198))

- Words can have **multiple** meanings.
  Un mot peut avoir plusieurs sens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13744372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13744372) [\#13744366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13744366))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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