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# grand — French to English

How French *grand* 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: grand (145 128), grande (239 168), grandes (95 636), grands (81 484). By style: everyday 3 736 · literary 407 · biblical 1 020 · parliamentary 66 351 · legal and administrative 30 191 · UN documents 459 711.

## major

Used about 92 627 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · parliamentary ≈ 6 566 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 201 · UN documents ≈ 83 801). Meaning: [major in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/major/).

- La **Grande** Ourse ressemble à une louche.
  Ursa **Major** looks like a dipper.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10008004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10008004) [\#10765066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10765066))

- Le secteur public a financé les mesures de sauvetage des **grandes** banques.
  The public has financed the rescue packages for the **major** banks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494856)

- Toutes les **grandes** banques tchèques sont concernées.
  They cover all the **major** Czech banks.
  ([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 1357579)

- Ces **grands** programmes étaient les suivants:
  These **major** programmes comprised:
  ([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 24915666)

- La défense Caro-Kann (1. e4 c6) est une ouverture utilisée par les **grands** maîtres du monde entier.
  The Caro-Kann defense (1. e4 c6) is an opening used by **major** Grand Masters around the world.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10283108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10283108) [\#10283153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10283153))

## large

Used about 69 433 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 350 · literary ≈ 42 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 8 639 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 705 · UN documents ≈ 52 675). Meaning: [large in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/large/).

- C'est **grand** comment ?
  How **large** is it?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1891427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1891427) [\#1891793](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1891793))

- Une glace assez **grande**.
  The mirror is quite **large**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30950)

- Voyez avec quelles **grandes** lettres je vous ai écrit de ma propre main.
  See with what **large** letters I write to you with my own hand.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 6:11)

- L'investissement dans les **grands** projets est simplifié.
  Investment in **large** projects is being simplified.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1374249)

- **Grandes** entreprises non financières
  **Large** non-financial enterprises
  ([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 4005184)

## great

Used about 60 543 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 564 · literary ≈ 172 · biblical ≈ 653 · parliamentary ≈ 14 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 887 · UN documents ≈ 43 098). Meaning: [great in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/great/).

- La peur est une **grande** motivation.
  Fear is a **great** motivator.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dimitris and dimitris · checked, community translation · [\#1650379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650379) [\#1650382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650382))

- Son autorité était **grande**.
  His authority was **great**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25709)

- C’est, en effet, une **grande** source de gain que la piété avec le contentement;
  But godliness with contentment is **great** gain.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 6:6)

- La Bulgarie a fait de **grands** pas en avant ces dernières années.
  Bulgaria has made **great** strides in recent years.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 387327)

- Prime sur **Grands** Lacs (EUR/t)
  **Great** Lakes premium (EUR/t)
  ([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 758285)

## big

Used about 10 809 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 837 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 2 765 · UN documents ≈ 7 183). Meaning: [big in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/big/).

- Tu as un **grand** nez.
  You have a **big** nose.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1898983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1898983) [\#1898979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1898979))

- --Je veux le **grand** fusil, répondit Gavroche.
  “I want a **big** gun,” replied Gavroche.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24484)

- Et, levant les yeux, elles aperçurent que la pierre, qui était très **grande**, avait été roulée.
  for it was very **big**. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 16:4)

- Deux **grands** chefs de l'Union européenne se contredisent donc directement.
  So we have two **big** chiefs within the European Union directly contradicting each other.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1532519)

- La promotion du respect du droit par tous les États, **grands** et petits, servirait les intérêts de l &apos; ensemble de la communauté internationale.
  Promotion of respect for the rule of law by all States, **big** and small, would serve the interest of the international community as a whole.
  ([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 2616735)

## More sentences

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

- Tom est plus **grand** et plus gros que moi.
  Tom is taller and fatter than me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6847847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6847847) [\#6847010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6847010))

- L'arbre était si **grand** qu'il dépassait le mur du jardin.
  The tree was so tall that it towered over the garden wall.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Catriona · checked, community translation · [\#5144323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5144323) [\#3704416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3704416))

- Même le plus **grand** des érudits ne peut pas résoudre cela.
  Even the greatest scholar can't solve that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#36589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36589) [\#1409523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1409523))

## 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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