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# huit — French to English

How French *huit* 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: huit (51 697), huites (2), huits (5). By style: everyday 349 · literary 65 · biblical 97 · parliamentary 2 543 · legal and administrative 4 299 · UN documents 44 351.

## eight

Used about 40 171 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 276 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 97 · parliamentary ≈ 2 119 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 956 · UN documents ≈ 34 674). Forms: eight, eighteen. Meaning: [eight in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/eight/).

- J'ai dix-**huit** ans.
  I am **eighteen** years old.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and human600 · checked, community translation · [\#282225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/282225) [\#129841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129841))

- Il était **huit** heures du soir.
  It was **eight** in the evening.
  ([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 1902)

- les gens d’Anathoth, cent vingt-**huit**;
  The men of Anathoth: one hundred twenty-**eight**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:27)

- **Huit** heures, c'est encore trop pour transporter des animaux !
  **Eight** hours is too long to transport live animals!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 172282)

- Ces **huit** actions concernent:
  The **eight** actions concern:
  ([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 4852892)

## years

Used about 1 038 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 53 · legal and administrative ≈ 179 · UN documents ≈ 806).

- A l'heure actuelle, les processus durent trop longtemps; des délais de six à **huit** ans ne sont plus conciliables avec la durée de vie de ces technologies.
  At present these processes take too long: a period of 6 to 8 **years** is no longer compatible with the life cycle of products of these technologies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1734997)

- À titre indicatif, il est prévu de lancer des appels à propositions à intervalles de douze à dix-**huit** mois sur une période maximale de sept ans.
  As an indicative calendar, it is foreseen that calls for proposals will be launched at 12 to 18-month intervals over a maximum period of seven **years**.
  ([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 1715309)

- Les ressources affectées à l &apos; éducation et à la santé ont connu une augmentation régulière et ont été multipliées par plus de **huit** ces 10 dernières années.
  There has been a steady increase in expenditure on education and health, more than eightfold in the past 10 **years**.
  ([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 21917158)

- Utilisation déconseillée chez l’enfant et l’adolescent de moins de dix-**huit** ans (voir la rubrique “Mises en garde particulières et précautions d’emploi”)
  The use in children and adolescents under 18 **years** of age is not recommended (see section “Special warnings and precautions for use”).
  ([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 2484861)

## hundred

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

- Dix-**huit** cents ans avant cet homme infortuné, l'être mystérieux, en qui se résument toutes les saintetés et toutes les souffrances de l'humanité, avait aussi lui, pendant que les oliviers frémissaient au vent farouche de l'infini, longtemps écarté de la main l'effrayant calice qui lui apparaissait ruisselant d'ombre et débordant de ténèbres dans des profondeurs pleines d'étoiles.
  Eighteen **hundred** years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all studded with stars.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5255)

## More sentences

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

- Attends jusqu'à dix-**huit** heures.
  Wait until 6 p.m.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10569616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10569616) [\#1313622](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1313622))

- Antoine Lavoisier est décédé le **huit** mai mille sept cent quatre-vingt-quatorze.
  Antoine Lavoisier died on May 8, 1794.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and rafaeldejesus8199 · checked, community translation · [\#9152181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9152181) [\#9159747](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9159747))

- La zone au-dessus de **huit** mille mètres est connue comme zone de la mort.
  The zone above 8000m is known as the death zone.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1632234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1632234) [\#1632416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1632416))

## Grammar

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