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# jours — French to English

How French *jours* 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: jours (126 472). By style: everyday 1 483 · literary 92 · biblical 557 · parliamentary 7 214 · legal and administrative 25 492 · UN documents 91 634.

## days

Used about 116 477 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 927 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 511 · parliamentary ≈ 6 012 · legal and administrative ≈ 24 961 · UN documents ≈ 83 998). Forms: day, days.

- Quarante dollars pour sept **jours**.
  40 dollars for seven **days**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#703309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/703309) [\#9159713](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9159713))

- J'accorde trois **jours**.
  I grant you three **days**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10626)

- Et Job mourut âgé et rassasié de **jours**.
  So Job died, being old and full of **days**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 42:17)

- Au niveau des **jours** de la semaine, pas grand chose.
  As far as the **day** of the week is concerned, not much.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1804090)

- Calcul à un horizon de 10 **jours**
  Computation of 10 **day** Horizon
  ([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 4925080)

## every

Used about 504 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 494 · literary ≈ 10). Meaning: [every in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/every/).

- J'essaie de courir tous les **jours**.
  I try to run **every** day.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and frpzzd · checked, community translation · [\#13711303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13711303) [\#13711310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13711310))

- Et ce crime, je l'aurais commis tous les **jours**!
  And I should have committed that crime **every** day!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30359)

- Je pense à elle tous les **jours**.
  I think about her **every** day.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3920644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3920644) [\#8377397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8377397))

- Et il vint tous les **jours** à ce champ de l'Alouette.
  And **every** day he returned to that meadow of the Lark.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18835)

- Tom vient ici presque tous les **jours**.
  Tom comes here nearly **every** day.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1026663](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1026663) [\#5393675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5393675))

## two

Used about 152 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 150). Meaning: [two in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/two/).

- --Il n'y a pas quinze **jours** qu'il m'a enlevé par l'oreille de la corniche du pont Royal où je prenais l'air.
  “It isn’t **two** weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24119)

- Il est cependant un dossier sur lequel je voudrais revenir maintenant, et qui a fait l'objet de nombreux débats, il y a quinze **jours**.
  There is, however, one issue which I would now like to come back to, and which was the subject of much discussion **two** weeks ago.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1837334)

## More sentences

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

- Lundi prochain et mardi prochain seront deux **jours** fériés consécutifs.
  Next Monday and Tuesday are consecutive holidays.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and JimBreen · checked, community translation · [\#328045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328045) [\#1191274](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1191274))

- Allons faire un bowling ensemble un de ces **jours**.
  Let's go bowling together sometime soon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Tigrin · checked, community translation · [\#4197697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4197697) [\#10215853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10215853))

- Il y a parmi nous des cheveux blancs, des vieillards, Plus riches de **jours** que ton père.
  With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 15:10)

## Grammar

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