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# mesurer — French to English

How French *mesurer* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: mesuraient (86), mesurait (154), mesure (372 710), mesurent (1 174), mesurer (27 643), mesures (1 060 343), mesurez (35), mesurons (180), mesuré (7 031), mesurée (15 512), mesurées (7 843), mesurés (4 489). By style: everyday 424 · literary 20 · biblical 91 · parliamentary 72 428 · legal and administrative 252 310 · UN documents 1 171 927.

## measured

Used about 982 827 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 195 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 64 · parliamentary ≈ 38 401 · legal and administrative ≈ 189 391 · UN documents ≈ 754 764). Forms: measure, measured, measures, measuring.

- L'as-tu **mesuré** ?
  Have you **measured** it?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1699386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1699386) [\#1704123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1704123))

- La quantité de civilisation se **mesure** à la quantité d'imagination.
  The amount of civilization is **measured** by the quantity of imagination.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26932)

- Comblez donc la **mesure** de vos pères.
  Fill up, then, the **measure** of your fathers.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 23:32)

- Il s'agit d'une **mesure** cruciale.
  This is a crucial **measure**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 356058)

- **Mesuré** à partir de la côte.
  **Measured** from the coastline.
  ([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 3089905)

## More sentences

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

- Je ne pouvais me **mesurer** à elle.
  I was no match for her.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2184008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2184008) [\#2186233](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2186233))

- Un éléphant mâle adulte peut **mesurer** plus de trois mètres de haut et peser plus de six tonnes.
  An adult male elephant can be more than three meters tall and weigh more than six tons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8930739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8930739) [\#8930790](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8930790))

- Il ne peut simplement pas se **mesurer**.
  He is just no match.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#592656](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/592656) [\#3648982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3648982))

## 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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