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# huitième — French to English

How French *huitième* 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: huitième (75 693), huitièmes (139). By style: everyday 21 · literary 10 · biblical 48 · parliamentary 279 · legal and administrative 814 · UN documents 74 660.

## eighth

Used about 60 768 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 233 · legal and administrative ≈ 581 · UN documents ≈ 59 884). Forms: eighteenth, eighth. Meaning: [eighth in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/eighth/).

- C'est au **huitième** étage.
  It's on the **eighth** floor.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#72329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72329) [\#6465649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6465649))

- Il tenait du dix-**huitième** siècle: frivole et grand.
  He had something of the **eighteenth** century about him; frivolous and 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 13057)

- Jochanan, le **huitième**; Elzabad, le neuvième;
  Johanan the **eighth**, Elzabad the ninth,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 12:12)

- Premièrement, les avances sur le **huitième** FED.
  First of all, the advance payments to the **eighth** EDF.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1825328)

- au paragraphe 10, le **huitième** tiret est supprimé.
  in subsection 10, the **eighth** indent is deleted.
  ([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 2522763)

## periodic

Used about 4 666 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 666). Meaning: [periodic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/periodic/).

- Dix-**huitièmes** rapports périodiques des États parties attendus en 2007
  Eighteenth **periodic** reports of States parties due in 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 18792942)

- Dix-**huitièmes** rapports périodiques que les États parties devaient présenter en 2004
  Eighteenth **periodic** reports of States parties due in 2004
  ([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 11889713)

- Dix-**huitièmes** rapports périodiques que les États parties devaient présenter en 2005
  Eighteenth **periodic** reports of States parties due in 2005
  ([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 15175535)

- Dix-**huitième** et dix-neuvième rapports périodiques, devant être présentés
  Eighteenth and nineteenth **periodic** reports, to be submitted jointly
  ([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 24269730)

## parties

Used about 1 555 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 555).

- Sept **huitièmes** des Parties présentes et votantes
  Seven-eighths of **Parties** present and voting
  ([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 4100357)

- Majorité des sept **huitièmes**, si toutes les Parties sont présentes et votent :
  Seven-eighths majority, if all **Parties** are present and vote:
  ([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 4100353)

## ninth

Used about 15 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 15). Meaning: [ninth in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ninth/).

- vu le rapport annuel de la Commission du 26 avril 2012 sur la gestion financière des **huitième**, neuvième et dixième Fonds européens de développement pour l’exercice 2011,
  having regard to the Commission’s Annual Report of 26 April 2012 on the financial management of the Eight, **Ninth** and Tenth European Development Funds (EDFs) in 2011,
  ([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 2759351)

## More sentences

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

- Elle est morte au dix-**huitième** siècle.
  She died in the 18th century.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13903743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13903743) [\#13903764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13903764))

- Ce n'est qu'aux dix-septième et dix-**huitième** siècles que les corporations ont de plus en plus perdu leurs privilèges au profit de l'état.
  It was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that the guilds lost their privileges more and more to the state.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#1438840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1438840) [\#1438826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1438826))

- Nous sommes bloqués dans l'ascenseur, entre le vingt-septième et le vingt-**huitième** étage.
  We're stuck in the lift between the 27th and 28th floors.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11028065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11028065) [\#10615234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10615234))

## Grammar

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