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# third — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: third (326 907), thirds (12 316). By style: everyday 162 · literary 38 · biblical 157 · parliamentary 18 389 · legal and administrative 74 030 · UN documents 246 447.

## tiers

Used about 206 735 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 12 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 60 921 · UN documents ≈ 133 492).

- One **third** of the earth's surface is desert.
  Un **tiers** de la surface de la Terre est désert.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Whiskkebarr and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#19556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19556) [\#1053548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1053548))

- Your **third** estate is insipid, colorless, odorless, and shapeless.
  Votre **tiers** état est insipide, incolore, inodore et informe.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29267)

- and one **third** of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One **third** of the ships were destroyed.
  et le **tiers** des créatures qui étaient dans la mer et qui avaient vie mourut, et le tiers des navires périt.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 8:9)

- Why only a **third**?
  Pourquoi seulement un **tiers** ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 310497)

- **Third** country ISO code
  Pays **tiers** Code ISO
  ([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 4829009)

## troisième

Used about 97 243 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 111 · literary ≈ 32 · biblical ≈ 137 · parliamentary ≈ 4 789 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 025 · UN documents ≈ 82 149).

- Shift into **third** gear.
  Passe la **troisième** vitesse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8080217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8080217) [\#10476240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10476240))

- He tapped a **third** time.
  Il frappa un **troisième** coup.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1409)

- the **third** to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
  le **troisième**, à Harim; le quatrième, à Seorim;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 24:8)

- My **third** point concerns the reform of the EU institutions.
  **Troisième** point: la réforme des institutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2001261)

- the following subparagraph shall be added after the **third** subparagraph of paragraph 3:
  l'alinéa suivant est ajouté après le paragraphe 3, **troisième** alinéa:
  ([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 3834907)

## deux

Used about 195 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 192).

- I got the **third** degree last night from my parents because I got home two hours late.
  Je me suis fait passer à la moulinette par mes parents hier soir parce que je suis rentré à la maison **deux** heures en retard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1188652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1188652) [\#1188792](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1188792))

- About two **thirds** of accidents lead to an absence of more than three days at work and almost 14% of workers suffer more than one accident in a year.
  Environ **deux** accidents sur trois entraînent une absence de plus de trois jours, presque 14% des travailleurs subissent plus d’un accident du travail par an.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 651665)

## More sentences

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

- I met her by accident on **Third** Avenue.
  Je l'ai rencontrée par hasard sur la 3e avenue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#252570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252570) [\#7491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7491))

- Please go up to the **third** floor.
  Montez au 3e étage s'il vous plait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Hoshikaze · checked, community translation · [\#38576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38576) [\#4883590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4883590))

- He said to the people, “Be ready by the **third** day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
  Et il dit au peuple: Soyez prêts dans trois jours; ne vous approchez d’aucune femme.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 19:15)

## 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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