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# sixth — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sixth (92 792), sixths (25). By style: everyday 12 · literary 6 · biblical 42 · parliamentary 1 057 · legal and administrative 2 168 · UN documents 89 532.

## sixième

Used about 77 419 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 903 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 080 · UN documents ≈ 74 380). Forms: sixième, sixièmes.

- What's your **sixth** sense?
  Quel est ton **sixième** sens ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#4360036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4360036) [\#4359828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4359828))

- I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the line, and the standard-bearers of the **sixth** legion.
  J'ai distingué les shakos du cinquième de ligne et les guidons de la **sixième** légion.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25564)

- Ozem the **sixth**, and David the seventh;
  Otsem le **sixième**, David le septième.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 2:15)

- The **Sixth** Commandment is infrastructure.
  Le **sixième** commandement concerne les infrastructures.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 881692)

- None, from the **sixth** year onwards
  Néant, à partir de la **sixième** année.
  ([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 234926)

## More sentences

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

- Today is October twenty-**sixth**.
  Nous sommes aujourd’hui le vingt-six octobre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12129091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12129091) [\#12129104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12129104))

- The **sixth** of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory.
  Ce n'est cependant pas un jour dont l'histoire ait gardé souvenir que le 6 janvier 1482.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 27)

- What put the “whole population of Paris in commotion,” as Jehan de Troyes expresses it, on the **sixth** of January, was the double solemnity, united from time immemorial, of the Epiphany and the Feast of Fools.
  Le 6 janvier, ce qui mettoit en émotion tout le populaire de Paris, comme dit Jehan de Troyes, c'était la double solennité, réunie depuis un temps immémorial, du jour des Rois et de la Fête des Fous.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 32)

## 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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