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# times — English to French

How English *times* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: times (67 867). By style: everyday 751 · literary 41 · biblical 159 · parliamentary 8 409 · legal and administrative 6 517 · UN documents 51 990.

## fois

Used about 17 776 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 563 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 113 · parliamentary ≈ 2 453 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 715 · UN documents ≈ 11 914).

- I did that a few **times**.
  J'ai fait ça quelque **fois**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6356406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6356406) [\#7862771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7862771))

- “Two or three **times**.”
  --Deux ou trois **fois**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11424)

- Five **times** I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
  cinq **fois** j’ai reçu des Juifs quarante coups moins un,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 11:24)

- EGNOS is 10 **times** more accurate than GPS.
  EGNOS est dix **fois** plus fiable que le GPS.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1567957)

- Frequency: 2 to 3 **times** per day
  Fréquence: 2 à 3 **fois** par jour
  ([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 4678600)

## temps

Used about 5 620 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 526 · legal and administrative ≈ 679 · UN documents ≈ 4 333).

- It reminds me of the good old **times**.
  Ça me rappelle le bon vieux **temps**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#1537512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1537512) [\#1537509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1537509))

- The incomplete **times** in which we live.
  Les **temps** incomplets où nous vivons.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26832)

- A friend loves at all **times**; and a brother is born for adversity.
  L’ami aime en tout **temps**, Et dans le malheur il se montre un frère.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 17:17)

- Time has shown that a single currency has been an additional guarantee of reliability in complex **times**.
  Le **temps** a prouvé qu'une monnaie unique a été une garantie supplémentaire de fiabilité dans des périodes difficiles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1337135)

- retention **times** of reference compounds used for calibration,
  **temps** de rétention des composés de référence employés pour l'étalonnage,
  ([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 1539362)

## trois

Used about 4 333 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 333).

- After being proposed as many as three more **times**, many of them still remain in a transitional home.
  Bien qu &apos; ils aient été proposés jusqu &apos; à **trois** reprises, beaucoup d &apos; entre eux se trouvent encore dans leur foyer provisoire.
  ([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 4946128)

- 223. Measures to provide public assistance to multicultural families have been formulated and implemented three **times** since 2005.
  Des mesures d &apos; aide publique aux familles multiculturelles ont été élaborées et mises en œuvre à **trois** reprises depuis 2005.
  ([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 24320859)

- Forty prisoners had also to be rushed to hospital three months earlier after they had eaten spoilt food. (The Jerusalem **Times**, 11 July)
  **Trois** mois plus tôt, 40 prisonniers avaient dû être hospitalisés d &apos; urgence après avoir consommé des aliments gâtés. (The Jerusalem Times, 11 juillet)
  ([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 3322093)

- On 9 February 2010, four F-16 and one CN-235 Turkish military aircraft violated international air traffic regulations three **times**.
  Le 9 février 2010, cinq appareils militaires turcs, quatre F-16 et un CN-235, ont enfreint à **trois** reprises la réglementation internationale de la circulation aérienne.
  ([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 21572175)

## plusieurs

Used about 3 764 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 051 · legal and administrative ≈ 543 · UN documents ≈ 2 166).

- God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many **times** and in various ways,
  Après avoir autrefois, à **plusieurs** reprises et de plusieurs manières, parlé à nos pères par les prophètes,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 1:1)

- We have criticised this several **times**. We rejected it here in Parliament.
  Nous avons déjà critiqué ce fait à **plusieurs** reprises et nous l'avons refusé ici au Parlement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1986556)

- He was warden and threatened and exerted pressure on prisoners numerous **times**.
  Directeur de la prison, il a menacé les prisonniers à **plusieurs** reprises et exercé des pressions à leur égard.
  ([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 2242527)

- The other armed man then stepped up to the brother and shot him several **times** in the head.
  L &apos; autre homme armé s &apos; est alors approché du frère et lui a tiré **plusieurs** balles dans la tête.
  ([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 6350870)

- (SK) I am sure there is no need for me to add much; we should rather do more to implement what we have already agreed upon several **times**.
  Nous ferions mieux de mettre en œuvre ce dont nous avons déjà convenu à **plusieurs** reprises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 868936)

## More sentences

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

- She's visited us a few **times**.
  Elle nous a quelquefois rendu visite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11938648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11938648) [\#11938621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11938621))

- He's visited us a few **times**.
  Il nous a quelquefois rendu visite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11938647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11938647) [\#11938627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11938627))

- We must uphold the law at all **times**.
  Nous devons faire respecter la loi en permanence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12594060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12594060) [\#12594061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12594061))

## 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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