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# long — French to English

How French *long* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: long (147 503), longe (425), longes (402), longs (5 562). By style: everyday 601 · literary 71 · biblical 36 · parliamentary 14 193 · legal and administrative 16 734 · UN documents 122 257.

## long

Used about 59 103 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 431 · literary ≈ 46 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 9 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 450 · UN documents ≈ 43 001). Forms: long, longer. Meaning: [long in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/long/).

- Ses cheveux sont **longs**.
  Her hair is **long**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#309627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/309627) [\#133805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/133805))

- Le trajet était assez **long**.
  The passage was tolerably **long**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7225)

- Je le rassasierai de **longs** jours, Et je lui ferai voir mon salut.
  I will satisfy him with **long** life, and show him my salvation.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 91:16)

- Il reste la question des horaires de travail constamment **longs**.
  The issue is persistent **long** hours.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1176815)

- Riz moyen et **long** A
  Medium and **long**-grain A
  ([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 1873976)

## loins

Used about 39 428 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 502 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 885 · UN documents ≈ 32 040). Forms: loin, loins. Meaning: [loins in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loins/).

- Que se passe-t-il précisément avec les **longes** et les conserves de thon?
  What actually happens with the tuna **loins** and preserved tuna?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1599254)

- **longes** et morceaux de **longes**
  **Loins** and cuts thereof
  ([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 271117)

- CÔTELETTES DANS LA **LONGE**, AVEC OS 4503
  Pork **Loin** Blade Chops 4503
  ([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 15499381)

- Ce système prévoit que 11 pays d'Amérique latine ) les seuls pour lesquels nous demandons l'exclusion - puissent exporter vers l'Union européenne 20.000 tonnes de **longes** et de conserves de thon par an, du thon pêché dans leurs eaux, comme le dit le règlement.
  This system envisages for the 11 Latin American countries - the only ones whose exclusion we are requesting - the possibility of exporting to the European Union 20 000 tonnes a year of tuna **loins** and preserved tuna fished, as the regulation says, in their waters.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1599255)

- **longes** et morceaux de **longes**
  **loins** and cuts thereof
  ([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 494900)

## along

Used about 6 245 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 502 · legal and administrative ≈ 610 · UN documents ≈ 5 059). Meaning: [along in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/along/).

- Vous le saviez tout du **long**.
  You knew it all **along**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3419476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3419476) [\#3430455](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3430455))

- Le fiacre roulait le **long** des arbres des Champs-Élysées.
  The hackney-coach rolled **along** the trees of the Champs-Élysées.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27756)

- Comme il passait le **long** de la mer de Galilée, il vit Simon et André, frère de Simon, qui jetaient un filet dans la mer; car ils étaient pêcheurs.
  Passing **along** by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 1:16)

- Des travaux relativement récents ont repoussé davantage à l’intérieur des terres certains tronçons de la ligne ferroviaire - à voie unique, également -, qui **longe** de près la côte et est donc sujette à l’érosion côtière.
  Relatively recent works have moved further inland some sections of the railway line – also single track – that runs right **along** the coast and is therefore subject to coastal erosion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 508113)

- optimisation des processus tout au **long** du cycle de vie d’un produit;
  optimisation of processes **along** the life cycle of a product;
  ([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 2839862)

## term

Used about 3 245 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 628 · legal and administrative ≈ 87 · UN documents ≈ 2 529). Meaning: [term in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/term/).

- Le FME est cependant une proposition à **long** terme qui pourrait bien nécessiter un changement du Traité.
  The EMF is, however, a longer **term** proposal which may well require a change in the treaty.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1354175)

- Elles reconnaissent que, pour être viable à **long** terme, la croissance économique devrait respecter les principes du développement durable.
  They recognise that, to be viable over the longer **term**, economic growth should respect the principles of sustainable development.
  ([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 218820)

- Aujourd &apos; hui, certains États pourraient, en toute crédibilité, rechercher un rôle plus complet et à plus **long** terme au Conseil.
  Today, some States might credibly seek a fuller, longer-**term** Council role.
  ([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 23762331)

- De telles choses n’arrivent pas du jour au lendemain, mais sont en général le fruit de processus à **long** terme.
  Things like this do not happen overnight, but are usually the outcome of longer-**term** processes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 719585)

- Pour des raisons de cohérence, c &apos; est ce terme qui est repris tout au **long** de ce document d &apos; orientation des décisions.
  The latter **term** is used throughout this Decision Guidance Document for consistency reasons.
  ([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 25199532)

## cuts

Used about 1 084 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 126 · legal and administrative ≈ 959). Forms: cut, cuts.

- Il y a des positions très divergentes sur la forme des droits tarifaires à appliquer à la plupart des espèces sensibles : **longes** de thon, hareng et cabillaud.
  There are greatly differing views on the form of tariff duties to be applied to the majority of the vulnerable species: **cuts** of tuna, herring and cod.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2041357)

- La sous-position inclut également les morceaux de milieux contenant du tissu de la **longe** et de la poitrine dans les proportions naturelles des milieux entiers.
  The subheading also includes **cuts** of middles containing tissue of loin and belly in natural proportion to the entire middles.
  ([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 3005265)

- Lorsqu'une dissection partielle est effectuée, la prédiction de la teneur de référence en viande maigre (YPD) se fonde sur la dissection des quatre découpes principales (épaule, **longe**, jambon et poitrine) et sur le poids du filet.
  Where partial dissection is carried out, the prediction of the reference lean meat percentage (YPD) is based on the dissection of the four major **cuts** (shoulder, loin, ham and belly) plus the weight of the tenderloin.
  ([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 4353788)

- Le poids de la partie maigre des quatre découpes principales (épaule, **longe**, jambon et poitrine) se calcule en déduisant le poids total des éléments non maigres des quatre découpes du poids total de celles-ci avant dissection.
  The weight of the lean in the four major **cuts** (shoulder, loin, ham and belly) shall be calculated by subtracting the total weight of the non-lean elements of the four cuts from the total weight of the cuts before dissection.
  ([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 4353793)

## More sentences

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

- C'est le boulot qu'on ne commence jamais qui est le plus **long** à terminer.
  It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2139835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2139835) [\#2139834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2139834))

- Pour quelqu'un qui est censé être expert, vous ne semblez pas en savoir **long**.
  For someone who's supposed to be an expert, you don't seem to know much.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3346268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3346268) [\#3346929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3346929))

- On pouvait voir la forme oblongue du rat tandis qu'il passait le **long** du gosier du serpent.
  You could see the oblong shape of the rat as it passed down the snake's gullet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#741553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/741553) [\#800476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800476))

## 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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