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# grande — French to English

How French *grande* 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: grande (239 168), grandes (95 636). By style: everyday 1 347 · literary 152 · biblical 491 · parliamentary 38 784 · legal and administrative 17 899 · UN documents 276 131.

## major

Used about 37 870 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 2 020 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 305 · UN documents ≈ 34 516). 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)

- Seront-ils associés aux décisions des **grandes** institutions sociales?
  Will young people have a place at the decision-making levels of **major** institutions of society?
  ([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 5767530)

- Toutes les **grandes** économies doivent prendre leurs responsabilités si nous voulons éviter les conséquences dangereuses du changement climatique.
  All **major** economies must step up to the plate if we are to avoid the dangerous consequences of climate change.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3651021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3651021) [\#11077045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11077045))

## large

Used about 37 002 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 196 · literary ≈ 26 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 5 656 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 221 · UN documents ≈ 25 887). Meaning: [large in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/large/).

- Tom a une **grande** famille.
  Tom has got a **large** family.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zaghawa and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5621863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5621863) [\#1967946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1967946))

- 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)

- Une **grande** partie de la nourriture est exportée de ces pays vers le marché européen.
  A **large** amount of food is exported into the European market from such countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 863307)

- **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 27 413 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 239 · literary ≈ 63 · biblical ≈ 358 · parliamentary ≈ 6 060 · legal and administrative ≈ 559 · UN documents ≈ 20 135). 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)

- Cette espérance, elle est née des **grandes** tragédies du XXe siècle.
  This hope was born of the **great** tragedies of the 20th century.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 991155)

- Le Royaume-Uni de **Grande**-Bretagne et d’Irlande du Nord est destinataire de la présente décision.
  This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of **Great** Britain and Northern Ireland.
  ([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 785847)

## big

Used about 8 122 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 337 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 020 · UN documents ≈ 5 753). Meaning: [big in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/big/).

- J'ai de **grandes** mains.
  I have **big** hands.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mela and Lindoula · checked, community translation · [\#3626582](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3626582) [\#2825898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2825898))

- Les **grandes** **grandes**, au-dessus de dix ans,--l'appelaient Agathoclès.
  The **big** big girls—those over ten years of age—called her Agathocles.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10554)

- 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)

- Cela constituerait une victoire pour les citoyens ordinaires vis-à-vis des **grandes** entreprises.
  This would be a victory for ordinary citizens against **big** business.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 226345)

- Du fait du phénomène de concentration qui caractérise le marché des journaux payants, ces journaux ont de plus en plus souvent pour origine de **grandes** maisons d &apos; édition.
  As a result of the concentration taking place in the newspaper market, the production of these newspapers is increasing in the hands of **big** publishing houses.
  ([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 20756770)

## More sentences

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

- UBS est la plus **grande** banque en gestion de fortune d’Europe.
  UBS is the largest bank in private wealth management in Europe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Danquebec and Danquebec · checked, community translation · [\#1466039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1466039) [\#1466040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1466040))

- Ta fille est **grande**.
  Your daughter is tall.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#6484268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6484268) [\#5235176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5235176))

- La France semble pencher à gauche, la **Grande**-Bretagne à droite.
  France seems to be swinging left - Britain to the right.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#34177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/34177) [\#533895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/533895))

## 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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