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# dessous — French to English

How French *dessous* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: dessous (53 986). By style: everyday 95 · literary 46 · biblical 43 · parliamentary 750 · legal and administrative 11 953 · UN documents 41 099.

## below

Used about 44 565 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 563 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 969 · UN documents ≈ 35 962). Meaning: [below in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/below/).

- Cela semble en-**dessous** de nous.
  It feels **below** us.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13063356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13063356) [\#13063357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13063357))

- Éclairez la société en **dessous**.
  Light up society from **below**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15772)

- Débora, nourrice de Rebecca, mourut; et elle fut enterrée au-**dessous** de Béthel, sous le chêne auquel on a donné le nom de chêne des pleurs.
  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried **below** Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 35:8)

- Ce résultat se situe déjà en **dessous** des niveaux de 1990.
  This is already **below** 1990 levels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1028232)

- en **dessous** de 1000 ft au-dessus de l’aérodrome; ou
  **below** 1000 ft above the aerodrome; or
  ([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 3298547)

## table

Used about 1 362 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 498 · UN documents ≈ 856). Meaning: [table in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/table/).

- Sors de **dessous** la table !
  Come out from under the **table**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and miry · checked, community translation · [\#930399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/930399) [\#930447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/930447))

- Cosette était sortie de **dessous** la table.
  Cosette had emerged from under the **table**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8167)

- Dans le cas de références à des colonnes, des lignes et des cellules dans les modèles, ce document respecte la convention définie dans le tableau ci-**dessous**.
  The document follows the labelling convention set in the following **table**, when referring to the columns, rows and cells of the templates.
  ([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 3660449)

- La cote de crédit des instruments des marchés monétaires et des dépôts à terme est indiquée dans le tableau ci-**dessous**.
  105. The credit quality of money market funds and time deposits is as described in the **table**.
  ([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 27202508)

- Tom se cacha en **dessous** de la table.
  Tom hid himself under the **table**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#475750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/475750) [\#770767](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/770767))

## see

Used about 3 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [see in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/see/).

- Le versant là était si incliné que les canons anglais ne voyaient pas au-**dessous** d'eux la ferme située au fond du vallon, centre du combat.
  The slope there is so steep that the English cannon could not **see** the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, which was the centre of the combat.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7078)

- Mais celui qui a été abaissé pour un peu de temps au-**dessous** des anges, Jésus, nous le voyons couronné de gloire et d’honneur à cause de la mort qu’il a soufferte, afin que, par la grâce de Dieu, il souffrît la mort pour tous.
  But we **see** him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 2:9)

- Si quelque chose est effroyable, s'il existe une réalité qui dépasse le rêve, c'est ceci: vivre, voir le soleil, être en pleine possession de la force virile, avoir la santé et la joie, rire vaillamment, courir vers une gloire qu'on a devant soi, éblouissante, se sentir dans la poitrine un poumon qui respire, un coeur qui bat, une volonté qui raisonne, parler, penser, espérer, aimer, avoir une mère, avoir une femme, avoir des enfants, avoir la lumière, et tout à coup, le temps d'un cri, en moins d'une minute, s'effondrer dans un abîme, tomber, rouler, écraser, être écrasé, voir des épis de blé, des fleurs, des feuilles, des branches, ne pouvoir se retenir à rien, sentir son sabre inutile, des hommes sous soi, des chevaux sur soi, se débattre en vain, les os brisés par quelque ruade dans les ténèbres, sentir un talon qui vous fait jaillir les yeux, mordre avec rage des fers de chevaux, étouffer, hurler, se tordre, être là-**dessous**, et se dire: tout à l'heure j'étais un vivant!
  If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to **see** the sun; to be in full possession of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in one’s breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, to have children; to have the light—and all at once, in the space of a shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one’s sword useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, since one’s bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel a heel which makes one’s eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses’ shoes in one’s rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and to say to one’s self, “But just a little while ago I was a living man!”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7691)

## More sentences

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

- Tout est sens dessus **dessous**.
  Everything is upside down.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Dorenda · checked, community translation · [\#383646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/383646) [\#10782031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10782031))

- La température extérieure était de quinze degrés en **dessous** de zéro, mais la climatisation fonctionnait parfaitement.
  The temperature outside was minus fifteen degrees, but the air conditioning was working perfectly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tamy and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8920211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8920211) [\#1998877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1998877))

- Je les ai vus marcher bras dessus bras **dessous**.
  I saw them walking arm in arm.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Christiane and CK · checked, community translation · [\#260827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/260827) [\#740022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/740022))

## Grammar

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