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# than — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: than (611 374). By style: everyday 4 293 · literary 314 · biblical 397 · parliamentary 49 763 · legal and administrative 152 184 · UN documents 404 423.

## plus

Used about 265 586 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 041 · literary ≈ 183 · biblical ≈ 256 · parliamentary ≈ 23 845 · legal and administrative ≈ 69 751 · UN documents ≈ 168 510).

- You're more **than** welcome.
  Tu es **plus** que bienvenu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2700676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2700676) [\#3222308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3222308))

- No; no more **than** Louis XVI.
  Non; pas **plus** que Louis XVI.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24448)

- But I tell you that one greater **than** the temple is here.
  Or, je vous le dis, il y a ici quelque chose de **plus** grand que le temple.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:6)

- I have received more questions **than** I can accept.
  J'ai reçu **plus** de questions que je ne peux en accepter.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 942929)

- Not more **than** 0,1 % v/v
  Pas **plus** de 0,1 % v/v
  ([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 2596995)

## moins

Used about 44 363 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 89 · literary ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 5 184 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 194 · UN documents ≈ 16 851).

- I just saw you talking to Tom less **than** five minutes ago.
  Je viens juste de vous voir parler avec Tom il y a **moins** de cinq minutes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#2373960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2373960) [\#2374638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2374638))

- "One might be, with less reason **than** now."
  —On le serait à **moins**!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2855)

- Might the American people be less humane **than** ourselves?
  Les citoyens américains seraient-ils **moins** humains que nous?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 513149)

- at an elevation of less **than** 2500 meters above sea level; and
  À une altitude de **moins** de 2500 m au-dessus du niveau de la mer;
  ([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 5471579)

- States parties that have reports more **than** five years overdue (as at 31 July 2002) or
  États parties ayant au **moins** cinq ans de retard (au 31 juillet 2002)
  ([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 8639882)

## mais

Used about 5 265 times in the texts (literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 073 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 171).

- “I have plenty of time,” said the inspector, “but no more **than** enough.
  --J'ai le temps, reprit l'inspecteur, **mais** je n'ai que le temps.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16912)

- But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other **than** that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
  **Mais**, quand nous-mêmes, quand un ange du ciel annoncerait un autre Évangile que celui que nous vous avons prêché, qu’il soit anathème!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 1:8)

- In our discussions, however, we have gone further - rightly - **than** analyzing 1994.
  **Mais**, dans notre discussion, nous sommes allés - justement - au-delà de l'analyse de 1994.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1626303)

- Endless transmission belts of trapezoidal cross-section (V-belts), other **than** V-ribbed, of an outside circumference exceeding 180 cm but not exceeding 240 cm
  Courroies de transmission sans fin, de section trapézoïdale, autres que striées, d'une circonférence extérieure excédant 180 cm **mais** n'excédant pas 240 cm
  ([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 318519)

- Although the speed could not be exactly estimated, the sledge could not be going at less **than** forty miles an hour.
  On ne pouvait l'estimer, mathématiquement, **mais** certainement la vitesse du traîneau ne devait pas être moindre de quarante milles à l'heure.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2745)

## More sentences

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

- Nothing acts as a better antidote for romance **than** young men and women doing geometry together at eight o'clock every morning.
  Rien ne fait l'effet de meilleur antidote à l'amour que de jeunes hommes et femmes faisant ensemble de la géométrie à huit heures chaque matin.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1072510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1072510) [\#1072866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1072866))

- There's no one better **than** you.
  Il n’y a personne de mieux que toi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ricardo14 and Ricardo14 · checked, community translation · [\#9086173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9086173) [\#9086178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9086178))

- We should be better **than** this.
  Nous devrions être meilleurs que ceci.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and guyniv · checked, community translation · [\#5531778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5531778) [\#5531806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5531806))

## 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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