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# wider — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: wider (28 643). By style: everyday 10 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 277 · legal and administrative 1 287 · UN documents 25 066.

## large

Used about 11 209 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 664 · legal and administrative ≈ 617 · UN documents ≈ 9 922). Forms: large, larges.

- My wife wants a **wider** wardrobe.
  Ma femme veut une armoire plus **large**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13798086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13798086) [\#13798084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13798084))

- Here the sea came to lap the foot of the steep cliff, leaving a passage no **wider** than a couple of yards.
  La mer venait presque baigner le pied des contre-forts, laissant un passage **large** d'une toise au plus.
  ([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 3558)

- A **wider** range of alternative sentences replacing custodial sentences should be considered.
  Une gamme plus **large** de peines de substitution aux peines de prison devrait être considérée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 986410)

- promoting the faster and **wider** transposition of innovative solutions into practice;
  favorisant la transposition plus rapide et plus **large** dans la pratique des solutions innovantes;
  ([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 3070618)

- Promoting **wider** participation in the Agreement
  Promotion d &apos; une plus **large** adhésion à l &apos; Accord
  ([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 22038910)

## More sentences

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

- You need a **wider** aperture, or you won't get enough light reaching the film.
  Il faut que l'ouverture soit plus grande, sinon la lumière n'atteindra pas suffisamment la pellicule.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9032568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9032568) [\#9198653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9198653))

- He wants to reach a **wider** audience.
  Il veut toucher un auditoire plus étendu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1602661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1602661) [\#1602771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1602771))

- We want to reach a **wider** audience.
  Nous voulons atteindre un public plus étendu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1635589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1635589) [\#1635855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1635855))

## 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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