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# mieux — French to English

How French *mieux* 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: mieux (165 159). By style: everyday 2 021 · literary 80 · biblical 71 · parliamentary 14 388 · legal and administrative 5 455 · UN documents 143 144.

## better

Used about 55 782 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 389 · literary ≈ 58 · biblical ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 7 494 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 046 · UN documents ≈ 44 732). Meaning: [better in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/better/).

- C'est beaucoup **mieux**.
  This is **better** by far.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#61506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/61506) [\#6083212](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6083212))

- **Mieux**, n'est-ce pas?
  **Better**, is it not?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30186)

- **Mieux** vaut une réprimande ouverte Qu’une amitié cachée.
  **Better** is open rebuke than hidden love.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 27:5)

- Dans ce cas-ci, cet accord vaut **mieux** que rien du tout.
  In this case, something is **better** than nothing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889328)

- Le cas échéant, la technologie peut être adaptée afin de **mieux** répondre aux besoins des institutions.
  Where possible, the technology may be customised so as to **better** meet the needs of the institutions.
  ([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 5052470)

## more

Used about 28 384 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 199 · legal and administrative ≈ 341 · UN documents ≈ 26 840). Meaning: [more in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/more/).

- Ou, pour **mieux** dire, je crois bien qu'elle est sortie en effet par la porte de Vesle, mais sortie de ce monde.
  Or, to speak **more** truly, I believe that she actually did depart by the Porte de Vesle, but departed from this world.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3264)

- Je suis persuadée que nous y parviendrons **mieux** de cette manière.
  I am confident that we shall be **more** successful in this way.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1005095)

- Les États membres ont la faculté de faire procéder à l’adjonction de dénaturants ou d’indicateurs aux vins visés au paragraphe 1 afin de **mieux** les identifier.
  Member States may have denaturing agents or indicators added to wines as referred to in paragraph 1 in order to make them **more** easily identifiable.
  ([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 1862407)

- Façon de se placer dans les voies pour être **mieux** vus par les autres usagers;
  lane positioning so as to be **more** visible to other users;
  ([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 17323668)

- Au fond, comme il avait de l'esprit et qu'il comparait, Théodule n'avait servi qu'à lui faire **mieux** regretter Marius.
  In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule had only served to make him regret Marius all the **more**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22399)

## best

Used about 12 851 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 295 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 698 · legal and administrative ≈ 909 · UN documents ≈ 8 947). Meaning: [best in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/best/).

- Je fais de mon **mieux**.
  I'm doing my **best**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1855213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1855213) [\#1858250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858250))

- --Le **mieux**, là, en honnête homme, c'est que je raccommode la roue et que vous remettiez votre voyage à demain.
  “The **best** thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and set out on your journey to-morrow.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5510)

- voyez lequel des fils de votre maître est le meilleur et convient le **mieux**, mettez-le sur le trône de son père, et combattez pour la maison de votre maître!
  select the **best** and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 10:3)

- (EN) Monsieur le Président, ces rapports sont, au **mieux**, remplis de paradoxes, au pire, pleins d'hypocrisie.
  Mr President, these reports are at **best** bestrewn with paradoxes and at worst are full of hypocrisy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1560838)

- Indiquer la stratégie qui décrit le **mieux** celle du FIA
  Indicate the strategy that **best** describe the AIF’s strategy
  ([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 2898100)

## than

Used about 47 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- L'action vaut **mieux** que les mots.
  Actions speak louder **than** words.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petro1 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#241136](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241136) [\#8584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8584))

- Les expériences sur l'indigo n'avaient pas **mieux** réussi au Jardin des plantes que dans son jardin d'Austerlitz.
  His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des Plantes **than** in his garden at Austerlitz.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22726)

- aimant **mieux** être maltraité avec le peuple de Dieu que d’avoir pour un temps la jouissance du péché,
  choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people **than** to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 11:25)

- mais, dans l’Église, j’aime **mieux** dire cinq paroles avec mon intelligence, afin d’instruire aussi les autres, que dix mille paroles en langue.
  However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, **than** ten thousand words in another language.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:19)

## More sentences

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

- Tout va aller pour le **mieux**.
  Everything's going to be OK.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alexmarcelo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953265) [\#1251937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1251937))

- Ceux qui nous trahissent le **mieux** sont toujours ceux qui nous sont les plus proches.
  Those who betray us in the worst way are always those who are dearest to us.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and LinguisticFusion · checked, community translation · [\#4780282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4780282) [\#4779823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4779823))

- J'espère sincèrement que les choses vont aller **mieux** pour vous.
  I sincerely hope things improve for you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1241602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1241602) [\#2092040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2092040))

## 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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