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# whole — English to French

How English *whole* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: whole (122 287), wholes (60). By style: everyday 573 · literary 140 · biblical 214 · parliamentary 19 806 · legal and administrative 14 994 · UN documents 86 620.

## ensemble

Used about 31 434 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 9 490 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 560 · UN documents ≈ 15 339).

- On the **whole**, the event was successful.
  Dans l'**ensemble**, l'événement a été un succès.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#65120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/65120) [\#12617076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12617076))

- Still, it is good, on the **whole**.
  Toutefois l'**ensemble** est bon.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6504)

- Mrs Grossetête put the **whole** case very well.
  Mme Grossetête a remarquablement présenté l'**ensemble** de l'affaire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 375171)

- the **whole** region of Shumen,
  l’**ensemble** de la région de Shumen,
  ([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 5090752)

- 10. International **Whole** Vehicle Type Approval (IWVTA):
  10. Homologation de type internationale de l &apos; **ensemble** du véhicule (IWVTA):
  ([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 28159119)

## moitiés

Used about 29 776 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 29 776).

- 20 mm for **wholes** and halves
  20 mm pour les pommes entières et les **moitiés**;
  ([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 26318893)

- 20 mm for **wholes** and halves;
  20 mm pour les pommes entières et les **moitiés**;
  ([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 24599557)

- Presence of **wholes**, slices or slabs among halves
  Présence de fruits entiers, de tranches ou de morceaux parmi les **moitiés**
  ([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 17292375)

- Presence of halves, slices or slabs among **wholes**
  Présence de **moitiés**, de tranches ou de morceaux parmi les fruits entiers
  ([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 17292374)

- Presence of **wholes**, halves or slabs among slices
  - Présence de fruits entiers, de **moitiés** ou de morceaux parmi les tranches
  ([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 14387413)

## entières

Used about 17 577 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 124 · UN documents ≈ 14 437). Forms: entiers, entières.

- Between the ages of 15 and 16, he grew three **whole** inches.
  Entre quinze et seize ans, il a grandi de trois pouces **entiers**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#639390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/639390) [\#813995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/813995))

- whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow **whole** houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
  auxquels il faut fermer la bouche. Ils bouleversent des familles **entières**, enseignant pour un gain honteux ce qu’on ne doit pas enseigner.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · TIT 1:11)

- Tomatoes, **whole** or in pieces:
  Tomates, **entières** ou en morceaux:
  ([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 761896)

- - Inclusion of &quot; **wholes** &quot;
  - Ajout de &lt; &lt; fruits **entiers** &gt; &gt; ;
  ([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 14387326)

- Of fox, **whole**, with or without head, tail or paws
  de renards, **entières**, même sans les têtes, queues ou pattes
  ([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 3291345)

## toute

Used about 6 173 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 263 · literary ≈ 73 · biblical ≈ 107 · parliamentary ≈ 3 301 · legal and administrative ≈ 625 · UN documents ≈ 1 805).

- It rained the **whole** night.
  Il a plu **toute** la nuit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#5069037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5069037) [\#3089285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3089285))

- The **whole** nave was deserted.
  **Toute** la nef était déserte.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5718)

- A little yeast grows through the **whole** lump.
  Un peu de levain fait lever **toute** la pâte.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 5:9)

- Such behaviour is dangerous for Albania and for the **whole** of south-east Europe.
  C'est un comportement dangereux pour l'Albanie et pour **toute** l'Europe du Sud-Est.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887051)

- **whole** municipality of Baltchik,
  **toute** la municipalité de Baltchik,
  ([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 4790013)

## ou

Used about 3 371 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 562 · UN documents ≈ 1 805).

- For what does it profit a man if he gains the **whole** world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
  Et que servirait-il à un homme de gagner tout le monde, s’il se détruisait **ou** se perdait lui-même?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 9:25)

- **Whole** product after removal of stems or the crown (pineapples)
  Produit entier après enlèvement du pédoncule **ou** de la couronne (ananas)
  ([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 935873)

- (b) That the preliminary finding is confirmed, in **whole** or in part.\]
  b) Que la constatation préliminaire est confirmée, en totalité **ou** en partie.\]
  ([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 7346902)

- the offence is committed in **whole** or in part within their territory; or
  l’infraction a été commise, en tout **ou** en partie, sur leur territoire; ou
  ([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 2308644)

- The direction of theses processes points towards the strengthening of the consciences of single individuals of belonging to larger bodies or **wholes**, therefore initiating the taking of responsibilities regarding the well being of the community itself, as well as that of other cultures and nations and the human family itself.
  La direction de ces processus va dans le sens du renforcement des consciences des individus appartenant à des ensembles plus larges **ou** globaux, ce qui met en place la prise de responsabilité concernant le bien-être de la communauté ainsi que celui d &apos; autres cultures et nations et de la famille humaine elle-même.
  ([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 19002282)

## More sentences

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

- He drank a **whole** bottle of milk.
  Il a bu une bouteille de lait entière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#292991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/292991) [\#131423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131423))

- It's not possible to really understand the **whole** world.
  Ce n'est pas possible de comprendre vraiment le monde entier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and mervert1 · checked, community translation · [\#10698220](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10698220) [\#13701053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13701053))

- He gave me back the **whole** amount.
  Il m'a remboursé la totalité de la somme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slampisko and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9455744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9455744) [\#4492244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4492244))

## 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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