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# surface — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: surface (37 915), surfaces (5 231). By style: everyday 61 · literary 30 · biblical 58 · parliamentary 552 · legal and administrative 13 839 · UN documents 28 606.

## surface

Used about 31 868 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 248 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 668 · UN documents ≈ 20 859). Forms: surface, surfaces.

- This table's **surface** is smooth.
  La **surface** de cette table est lisse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by keira\_n and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1079144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1079144) [\#1642802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1642802))

- The **surface** of this rabble was dingy, dirty, earthy.
  La **surface** de cette cohue était grise, sale et terreuse.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5645)

- but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole **surface** of the ground.
  Mais une vapeur s’éleva de la terre, et arrosa toute la **surface** du sol.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 2:6)

- In Finland **surface** waters are very clean.
  En Finlande, les eaux de **surface** sont très propres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 11567)

- , 愦灭;lt; 6 % of body **surface**
  degré, 愦灭;lt; 6 % de la **surface** corporelle
  ([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 5668282)

## More sentences

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

- The leaves of the water lily float on the **surface** of the water.
  Les feuilles de nénuphar flottent sur l'eau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Wakano · checked, community translation · [\#9990516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9990516) [\#2965238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2965238))

- Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road **surface**.
  Les pneus s'usent à cause de la friction entre le caoutchouc et la route.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · [\#41116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/41116) [\#352513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/352513))

- Scatter a little flour on the work **surface**.
  Dispersez un peu de farine sur le plan de travail.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7002772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7002772) [\#8850030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8850030))

## 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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