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# élevé — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: élevé (90 954), élevée (24 250), élevées (16 832), élevés (39 011). By style: everyday 254 · literary 17 · biblical 138 · parliamentary 11 451 · legal and administrative 24 718 · UN documents 134 469.

## high

Used about 119 685 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 127 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 8 350 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 607 · UN documents ≈ 94 549). Forms: high, higher, highest. Meaning: [high in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/high/).

- Tom a un QI **élevé**.
  Tom has a **high** IQ.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6440568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6440568) [\#6446986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6446986))

- Le reste du trapèze formait le jardin qui était beaucoup plus bas que le niveau de la rue Polonceau; ce qui faisait les murailles bien plus **élevées** encore au dedans qu'à l'extérieur.
  The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused the walls to be very much **higher** on the inside than on the outside.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10770)

- L’Éternel est grand dans Sion, Il est **élevé** au-dessus de tous les peuples.
  The LORD is great in Zion. He is **high** above all the peoples.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 99:2)

- Mais les risques sont **élevés**.
  But the risks are **high**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1111506)

- Disponibilité très **élevée**/conversion du marché
  Very **high** availability/market conversion
  ([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 596137)

## than

Used about 2 729 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 239 · legal and administrative ≈ 386 · UN documents ≈ 2 101). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- Son revenu est trois fois plus **élevé** que le mien.
  His income is three times larger **than** mine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Vortarulo · checked, community translation · [\#286657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286657) [\#465672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/465672))

- Ces deux voûtes, surtout la moins ancienne, celle de 1740, étaient plus lézardées et plus décrépites que la maçonnerie de l'égout de ceinture, laquelle datait de 1412, époque où le ruisseau d'eau vive de Ménilmontant fut **élevé** à la dignité de grand égout de Paris, avancement analogue à celui d'un paysan qui deviendrait premier valet de chambre du roi; quelque chose comme Gros-Jean transformé en Lebel.
  These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit **than** the masonry of the belt sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first valet de chambre to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed into Lebel.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27438)

- Les aides à l'agriculture sont actuellement à peine moins **élevées** qu'à la fin des années quatre-vingt.
  At the moment, agricultural support as a whole is hardly any lower **than** at the end of the eighties.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 271328)

- intervalle de taille 3: taille supérieure à une taille **élevée**;
  range 3: greater **than** Large in Scale.
  ([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 4292528)

- La fumée latérale contient des concentrations plus **élevées** de substances nocives que la fumée principale.
  Sidestream smoke contains greater concentrations of many harmful ingredients **than** active smoke.
  ([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 22618870)

## level

Used about 2 610 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 119 · legal and administrative ≈ 386 · UN documents ≈ 2 101). Forms: level, levels. Meaning: [level in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/level/).

- Le niveau de la rivière s'est **élevé**.
  The river's water **level** has risen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1578575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1578575) [\#1578658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1578658))

- Certes, des emplois ont été créés dans certains pays avec un montant d'emprunts moins **élevé** que dans d'autres pays.
  In some countries, indeed, jobs have been created with lower loan **levels** than in other countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1615279)

- Volcan montrant des signes d’activité **élevée** par rapport à des niveaux de référence connus.
  Volcano is experiencing signs of elevated unrest above known background **levels**.
  ([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 5180358)

- Le programme répond ainsi aux besoins d &apos; un plus grand nombre d &apos; étudiants et leur accorde une aide moyenne plus **élevée**.
  These met the needs of more recipients, while increasing the **level** of average awards to those recipients.
  ([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 12078896)

- L'agence de sûreté nucléaire et industrielle a **élevé** le niveau de l'incident à la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi du niveau cinq au niveau sept.
  The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency upped the **level** of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from level 5 to level 7.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#835989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/835989) [\#835991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/835991))

## very

Used about 370 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 239 · legal and administrative ≈ 129). Meaning: [very in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/very/).

- Vos enfants sont très bien **élevés**.
  Your children are **very** well behaved.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4073895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4073895) [\#4074123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4074123))

- Rue des Nonaindières, un bourgeois bien vêtu, qui avait du ventre, la voix sonore, le crâne chauve, le front **élevé**, la barbe noire et une de ces moustaches rudes qui ne peuvent se rabattre, offrait publiquement des cartouches aux passants.
  In the Rue des Nonaindières, a **very** well-dressed bourgeois, who had a prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black beard, and one of these stiff moustaches which will not lie flat, offered cartridges publicly to passers-by.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23075)

- Lorsque l'heure d'été a été introduite en Autriche, des voix très critiques se sont **élevées**.
  When summertime was introduced in Austria, it came in for some **very** heated criticism.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1659314)

- La banque a reçu un montant très **élevé** d'aides d'État.
  The Bank has received a **very** large amount of State aid.
  ([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 3502636)

- Dès lors, Monsieur le Président Prodi, vous qui assumez la fonction la plus **élevée**, allez au bout de la logique.
  And so, President, you who bear the greater responsibility, forge ahead right to the **very** end.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 94609)

## More sentences

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

- J'ai été **élevé** à la campagne.
  I was brought up in the country.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#259607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259607) [\#12189106](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12189106))

- Je n'ai pas été **élevé** comme ça.
  I wasn't raised that way.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4976992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4976992) [\#12214519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12214519))

- Nous avons **élevé** nos enfants dans la misère.
  We raised our children in poverty.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12197359](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12197359) [\#11418566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11418566))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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