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# beaucoup — French to English

How French *beaucoup* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 8 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: beaucoup (127 474). By style: everyday 4 762 · literary 75 · biblical 224 · parliamentary 28 384 · legal and administrative 1 470 · UN documents 92 559.

## many

Used about 33 207 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 794 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 140 · parliamentary ≈ 7 096 · legal and administrative ≈ 92 · UN documents ≈ 25 068). Meaning: [many in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/many/).

- **Beaucoup** d'entre nous étaient fatiguées.
  **Many** of us were tired.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#262617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/262617) [\#11496380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11496380))

- Il y a **beaucoup** de côtes à monter.
  There are **many** hills to ascend.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5495)

- Car il y a **beaucoup** d’appelés, mais peu d’élus.
  For **many** are called, but few chosen.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 22:14)

- Tous les autres ont déjà été signés et, pour **beaucoup**, sont déjà en vigueur.
  All the rest have been signed and **many** are in force.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 316730)

- Attaque Sybil (visant à simuler d’autres véhicules pour faire croire qu’il y en a **beaucoup** sur la route)
  Sybil attack (in order to spoof other vehicles as if there are **many** vehicles on the road)
  ([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 5599116)

## much

Used about 24 165 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 091 · literary ≈ 25 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 8 870 · legal and administrative ≈ 643 · UN documents ≈ 13 498). Meaning: [much in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/much/).

- J'aime **beaucoup** Tom !
  I love Tom so **much**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and mervert1 · checked, community translation · [\#7592658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7592658) [\#7633183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7633183))

- Des parents, vous ne connaissez pas **beaucoup** ça.
  Parents—you do not know **much** about such things.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3209)

- La sagesse vaut mieux que les instruments de guerre; mais un seul pécheur détruit **beaucoup** de bien.
  Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys **much** good.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 9:18)

- - Merci **beaucoup**, Monsieur Gollnisch.
  Thank you very **much**, Mr Gollnisch.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 612715)

- Des vitesses **beaucoup** plus élevées sont nécessaires pour les entreprises.
  For business users, **much** higher speeds are needed.
  ([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 1118726)

## very

Used about 9 134 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 298 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 957 · legal and administrative ≈ 92 · UN documents ≈ 5 785). Meaning: [very in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/very/).

- Il y a **beaucoup** de vent.
  It's **very** windy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8791747](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8791747) [\#7115689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7115689))

- En somme, ce jour-là et le lendemain, on fit **beaucoup** de chemin horizontal, et relativement peu de chemin vertical.
  On the whole, that day and the next we made considerable way horizontally, **very** little vertically.
  ([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 2074)

- Madame McKenna, je le regrette **beaucoup**, mais vous n'êtes pas la première ni la deuxième à avoir posé une question.
  Mrs McKenna, I am **very** sorry, but you are neither the first nor the second to have asked.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 355666)

- À cette fin, il est capital que le taux de dilution soit déterminé avec **beaucoup** de précision.
  For this it is essential that the dilution ratio be determined **very** accurately.
  ([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 5422078)

- Il a conscience du chemin qui reste à parcourir et dit que les recommandations du Comité seront étudiées avec **beaucoup** de sérieux.
  He was well aware of the improvements still needed, and the Committee &apos; s recommendations would be given **very** serious consideration.
  ([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 22326706)

## there

Used about 7 593 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 774 · legal and administrative ≈ 31 · UN documents ≈ 5 785). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- Ce n'était pas **beaucoup** la peine de mettre là un lion.
  It was not worthwhile to place a lion **there**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7471)

- Il a **beaucoup** été question du déploiement de l'Union européenne dans ce débat.
  **There** has been a great deal of discussion on the issue of how to deploy the European Union in this debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1444519)

- Des études indiquent qu'il y a **beaucoup** moins d'évènements de ces types lorsque des procédures de navigation fondée sur les performances (ci-après «PBN») sont utilisées.
  **There** are studies indicating that there are significantly fewer occurrences of these types of events with the use of Performance Based Navigation (‘PBN’) procedures.
  ([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 4642692)

- Il faudra **beaucoup** de temps pour rétablir la confiance dans ce domaine.
  It will take a long time to restore the trust that had been **there**.
  ([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 1633670)

- --Il faut sans doute une réponse immédiate; et il a peut-être à nous communiquer des clauses confidentielles qu'on n'aime pas **beaucoup** écrire.
  “An immediate decision is required, no doubt; and perhaps **there** are certain confidential conditions which it does not do to put into writing.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 232)

## than

Used about 6 600 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 99 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 591 · legal and administrative ≈ 123 · UN documents ≈ 5 785). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- La plupart des développeurs détestent déboguer, c'est **beaucoup** plus amusant de créer des bogues que de les corriger.
  Most developers hate debugging; it's more fun to create bugs **than** to correct them.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#367133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/367133) [\#368283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/368283))

- --Ho hé! reprit l'homme avec un gros rire plus bestial encore que celui du prévôt, nous n'aurons pas **beaucoup** de chemin à faire.
  “Ho, hé!” continued the man with a huge laugh, which was still more brutal **than** that of the provost, “we shall not have far to go.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8691)

- Nous devrons nous appuyer, pour cela, sur le rapport Lynne de mai 2008, **beaucoup** plus ambitieux que la proposition de la Commission.
  For that we should take as the basis the Lynne report of May 2008, which is far more ambitious **than** the Commission proposal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1120744)

- Le réseau ferroviaire est largement électrifié et le rail émet **beaucoup** moins de CO2 que la route ou l'avion pour un voyage équivalent.
  Rail is largely electrified and emits far less CO2 **than** equivalent travel by road or air.
  ([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 5125765)

- Par ailleurs, le pays ogoni est **beaucoup** mieux loti que d &apos; autres régions du Nigéria pour ce qui est du réseau routier financé par le Gouvernement fédéral.
  Also, Ogoniland has far more **than** its fair share of the federal-funded road network vis-à-vis other parts of Nigeria.
  ([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 4027830)

## great

Used about 5 845 times in the texts (literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 31 · UN documents ≈ 5 785). Meaning: [great in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/great/).

- Vous me faites **beaucoup** de peine.
  You cause me a **great** deal of pain.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30923)

- Exigez de moi une forte dot et **beaucoup** de présents, et je donnerai ce que vous me direz; mais accordez-moi pour femme la jeune fille.
  Ask me a **great** amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 34:12)

- C'est pourquoi la contribution volontaire du Japon visant à soutenir l'acquisition du nouveau matériel qui hébergera le futur système MTA a été accueillie avec **beaucoup** d'intérêt.
  Therefore, the voluntary contribution of Japan to support the acquisition of the new ATM hardware which shall host the future ATM system has been noted with **great** interest.
  ([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 2539914)

- Elle a été extrêmement touchée de rencontrer ces femmes qui lui ont communiqué leur expérience avec **beaucoup** d &apos; émotion.
  The Special Rapporteur was deeply touched at meeting these women who told of their experiences under **great** emotional strain.
  ([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 2955995)

- J'avais du linge, **beaucoup** de linge.
  I had linen, a **great** deal of linen.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4280)

## lot

Used about 4 247 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 381 · parliamentary ≈ 1 774 · legal and administrative ≈ 92). Meaning: [lot in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lot/).

- Il m'aide **beaucoup**.
  He helps me a **lot**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10568069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10568069) [\#10190988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10190988))

- Il reste certainement **beaucoup** de chemin à parcourir, mais nous suivons la bonne direction.
  There is a certainly a **lot** of work to be done, but we are going the right way.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1408874)

- Cette eau mère contient encore **beaucoup** de sucres dissous (environ 85 %).
  The mother liquor still contains a **lot** of dissolved sugar (approximately 85 %).
  ([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 4578787)

- Tom a parlé **beaucoup**.
  Tom talked a **lot**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3181108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3181108) [\#13961876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13961876))

- Même si je pense comme Jäätteenmäki que, malheureusement, nous n'avons pas vu **beaucoup** de progrès.
  Even though I agree with Ms Jäätteenmäki that, unfortunately, we have not seen a **lot** of progress.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1035365)

## more

Used about 1 990 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 61 · UN documents ≈ 1 928). Meaning: [more in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/more/).

- Ces garanties étaient fondées sur des estimations de marché totalement irréalistes **beaucoup** trop optimistes.
  Instead, these were based on entirely unrealistic market estimates which can be described **more** as wishful thinking.
  ([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 551671)

- Les transports ont permis la globalisation de l &apos; économie mondiale, et les voyages internationaux sont devenus **beaucoup** plus faciles et abordable pour une grande partie de la population mondiale.
  Transport has enabled a globalization of the world economy, and international travel has become significantly easier and **more** affordable for a large proportion of the world &apos; s population.
  ([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 22862361)

- L’Autriche a par ailleurs émis des doutes, car la FMA aurait eu besoin de **beaucoup** plus de temps pour évaluer la cession de BB au consortium.
  Furthermore, Austria had been concerned about the fact that the FMA would have needed considerably **more** time to evaluate a sale to the Consortium.
  ([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 1396977)

## More sentences

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

- Je me suis fait **beaucoup** d'amies.
  I've made lots of friends.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#324424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324424) [\#1577517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1577517))

- Un homme colère excite des querelles, Et un furieux commet **beaucoup** de péchés.
  An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 29:22)

- Les Églises d’Asie vous saluent. Aquilas et Priscille, avec l’Église qui est dans leur maison, vous saluent **beaucoup** dans le Seigneur.
  The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 16:19)

## 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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