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# chiffre — French to English

How French *chiffre* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: chiffre (29 289), chiffres (48 799). By style: everyday 73 · literary 7 · parliamentary 5 661 · legal and administrative 14 590 · UN documents 57 757.

## figures

Used about 34 730 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 3 656 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 775 · UN documents ≈ 25 269). Forms: figure, figures.

- Ces **chiffres** sont erronés.
  These **figures** are inaccurate.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and kaiperkins271 · checked, community translation · [\#6862493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6862493) [\#6861030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6861030))

- Nous parlons **chiffres**.
  We are talking **figures**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30481)

- Ce **chiffre** est incroyable.
  It is an unbelievable **figure**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 841737)

- Ce **chiffre** tient compte des ventes prospectives.
  That **figure** takes account of planned sales.
  ([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 5643331)

- Note: p = **chiffres** provisoires.
  Note: p: Preliminary **figures**.
  ([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 17028702)

## number

Used about 13 608 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 32 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 472 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 672 · UN documents ≈ 11 431). Forms: number, numbers. Meaning: [number in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/number/).

- Quel est ton **chiffre** favori ?
  What's your favorite **number**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#906831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/906831) [\#1689673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1689673))

- Jean Valjean changea de **chiffre** au bagne.
  Jean Valjean changed his **number** in the galleys.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7798)

- Dans l'absolu, c'est le **chiffre** le plus élevé.
  In absolute terms that is the highest **number**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1762703)

- Nombre maximal de caractères/**chiffres**
  Maximum **number** of characters/digits
  ([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 2072315)

- 2.3.1 **Chiffre**(s) et/ou symbole(s) caractérisant le ou les type(s) de moteur et de véhicule:
  2.3.1. **Number**(s) and/or symbol(s) characterising the engine and vehicle type(s):
  ([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 12790877)

## turnover

Used about 5 978 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 531 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 040 · UN documents ≈ 2 407). Meaning: [turnover in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/turnover/).

- Cette entreprise a réalisé une augmentation remarquable de son **chiffre** d'affaires l'année dernière.
  This company achieved a remarkable increase in **turnover** last year.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · [\#2311308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2311308) [\#9854095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9854095))

- En effet, il s'agit de navires qui assurent 50 % de leur **chiffre** d'affaires annuel pendant la campagne thonière.
  In actual fact, these are fishing vessels that derive 50 % of their annual **turnover** from the tuna-fishing season.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1692765)

- **Chiffre** d’affaires ou bilan annuel
  **Turnover** or annual balance sheet
  ([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 1952577)

- Dollars É.-U.: Indique le **chiffre** d &apos; affaires annuel de l &apos; entreprise ferroviaire pour le fret en millions de dollars des États-Unis.
  US$: Indicates the annual **turnover** of Railways Undertakings for freight in Million US$.
  ([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 29761772)

- Dans votre rapport, M. Della Vedova, vous proposez une règle "2+" combinée à de nouveaux seuils en matière de **chiffre** d’affaires.
  Your report, Mr Della Vedova, proposes a ‘2+’ rule combined with new **turnover** thresholds.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 504630)

## digit

Used about 3 182 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 976 · UN documents ≈ 1 203). Meaning: [digit in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/digit/).

- Mon **chiffre** préféré est le quatre.
  My favorite **digit** is 4.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12843321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12843321) [\#12842599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12842599))

- **Chiffre** d’autocontrôle: un **chiffre**
  Check **digit**: one numeral
  ([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 2089251)

- Le code à quatre **chiffres** du produit dans le champ 2 est défini dans le chapitre 5.
  The four-**digit** product code in data field 2 is defined in Chapter 5.
  ([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 11183884)

- Un million est un nombre à sept **chiffres**.
  One million is a seven **digit** number.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and Jesse · checked, community translation · [\#4463341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4463341) [\#4470966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4470966))

- Niveau à 2 **chiffres** de la NACE Rév. 2 (divisions)
  NACE Rev. 2 2-**digit** level (Divisions)
  ([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 3305345)

## million

Used about 1 264 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 1 203). Meaning: [million in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/million/).

- Ce produit génère un **chiffre** d'affaires annuel d'environ 80 millions de dollars.
  This product has annual sales of about $80 **million**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Olcyx and semih71 · checked, community translation · [\#1570098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1570098) [\#12683061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12683061))

- Ramené sur un an, ce **chiffre** nous fait opérer un retour en arrière à la vitesse d'un million d'années par an.
  If we add that up over the course of a year, we are actually moving backwards in one go, at a rate of one **million** years per year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2016806)

- En 1999, 2,6 millions de personnes sont mortes du sida, **chiffre** record depuis le début de l &apos; épidémie, et 2 millions de ces personnes étaient des Africains.
  In 1999 alone, 2.6 **million** people died of HIV/AIDS, the most of any year since the epidemic began, and 2 million of those who died were Africans.
  ([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 7271368)

- La production d'automobiles a cette année atteint le **chiffre** record de dix millions de véhicules.
  Car production in that year reached a record 10 **million** vehicles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Guilmaeire and CK · checked, community translation · [\#44547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/44547) [\#1533684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1533684))

- D &apos; après les estimations, ce **chiffre** devait dépasser 4,7 millions de personnes d &apos; ici à la fin de 2007 et devait connaître une progression annuelle moyenne de 3,8 % pour la période 2004-2007
  According to market estimates, the economically active population was expected to reach 4.7 **million** by the end of 2007, an annual average growth rate of 3.8 per cent over the period from 2004 to 2007.
  ([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 22457633)

## More sentences

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

- À mon avis, il faut un **chiffre** asymétrique.
  My best guess is it needs an asymmetric cipher.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and ochern · checked, community translation · [\#8187961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8187961) [\#9436998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9436998))

- Vous savez que la ville de Paris enregistre 28 bâtards sur un **chiffre** de 100 naissances.
  You know that in the city of Paris, 28 bastards are registered for every 100 births.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#737303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/737303) [\#737272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/737272))

- Tu connais les **chiffres** romains ?
  Do you know Roman numerals?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and whitefishglobal · checked, community translation · [\#4823613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4823613) [\#4833145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4833145))

## 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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