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# millénaire — French to English

How French *millénaire* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: millénaire (97 451), millénaires (408). By style: everyday 11 · parliamentary 1 760 · legal and administrative 191 · UN documents 95 897.

## millennium

Used about 66 391 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 302 · legal and administrative ≈ 149 · UN documents ≈ 64 930). Forms: millennia, millennium. Meaning: [millennium in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/millennium/).

- Cent décennies font un **millénaire**.
  A hundred decades make a **millennium**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#3934911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3934911) [\#8954156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8954156))

- Leur utilisation remonte à des **millénaires**.
  Their use goes back over **millennia**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 391241)

- à l’amélioration des services sociaux et à la réalisation des objectifs du **Millénaire** pour le développement.
  to improving social services and helping to achieve the **Millennium** Development Goals.
  ([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 2765258)

- Sa propre histoire s &apos; étend sur neuf **millénaires**.
  Its history spans nine **millennia**.
  ([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 10842148)

- Un **millénaire** comprend dix siècles.
  A **millennium** comprises ten centuries.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#9211686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9211686) [\#9803510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9803510))

## thousands

Used about 10 264 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 275 · UN documents ≈ 9 989).

- Pendant des **millénaires**, la Méditerranée n’a pas été un obstacle, mais un lien entre les peuples.
  For **thousands** of years, the Mediterranean has not been an obstacle, but a link between peoples.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 528379)

- Les peuples autochtones entretiennent de coutume avec la terre des liens **millénaires**.
  6. Indigenous peoples usually have a connection with the land, measured in **thousands** of years.
  ([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 22886845)

- À vrai dire, aucun pays n'est à l'abri de cette maladie redoutable, vieille de plusieurs **millénaires**.
  In truth, no country is safe from this dreadful disease, which has been around for many **thousands** of years.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1365103)

- Le cinabre - sulfure mercurique - a été pendant des **millénaires** la principale source du mercure commercialisé.
  Cinnabar -- mercuric sulfide -- has been the main source of Hg as a commodity for **thousands** of years.
  ([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 19664633)

- Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs, les pièces sont les moyens de paiement traditionnels depuis des **millénaires**.
  Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for **thousands** of years coins have been our conventional means of payment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1769307)

## years

Used about 2 071 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 73 · UN documents ≈ 1 998).

- Bizarrement, ils ne soufflent mot des gigantesques montagnes de déchets qu’ils engendrent et qui nous poseront de sérieux problèmes pour les dix prochains **millénaires**.
  Strangely, they do not breathe a word about the enormous waste mountains they create for us and which will present us with major problems for the next ten thousand **years**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 741133)

- Dans quatre ans l &apos; échéance des objectifs du **Millénaire** pour le développement arrivera à son terme.
  In four **years** the MDG target date will be upon us.
  ([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 23762051)

- Et, entre ciel et terre, j'ai effectivement constaté les effets de cette maladie dont souffrent ces pierres **millénaires**, symbole de l'Europe et de son rayonnement, à une époque où l'Union européenne n'était sans doute qu'un rêve très lointain.
  I looked up and saw for myself their effects on that edifice, which is a thousand **years** old and symbolizes the influence of Europe, having been built at a time when the European Union was a very distant dream indeed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1639230)

- La civilisation s &apos; est développée sur les rives du fleuve Indus depuis plus de cinq **millénaires**.
  Civilization has thrived on the banks of the Indus River for more than 5,000 **years**.
  ([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 21596353)

- Troisièmement, il faudrait intervenir afin d'en finir avec cette amnésie collective, imposée à l'Europe occidentale par la tyrannie soviétique, qui a effacé de notre mémoire ces **millénaires** de relations culturelles, politiques et commerciales que nous tentons de restaurer aujourd'hui.
  Thirdly, something should be done to overcome the collective amnesia which was imposed by the Soviet tyranny on western Europe, allowing us to forget the thousand **years** of cultural, political and commercial links which we are now in the process of restoring.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 338623)

## achievement

Used about 1 007 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 999). Meaning: [achievement in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/achievement/).

- de contribuer à la réalisation des objectifs du **Millénaire** pour le développement dans la région,
  contribute to the **achievement** of MDGs targets in the region,
  ([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 3779519)

- En 2007, le Forum a publié un rapport citoyen sur la réalisation des objectifs du **Millénaire** pour le développement en Indonésie, qui faisait pendant à celui du Gouvernement.
  In 2007 INFID published the citizens &apos; report on the MDGs **Achievement** in Indonesia that mirrored the government report on MDGs.
  ([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 19003430)

- soutien à la mise en œuvre de politiques visant à éradiquer la pauvreté et à atteindre les objectifs du **Millénaire**;
  supporting the implementation of policies aimed at poverty eradication and at the **achievement** of the MDGs;
  ([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 1078556)

## achieving

Used about 1 003 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 4 · UN documents ≈ 999).

- Une importance particulière est accordée aux secteurs sociaux et aux progrès enregistrés en vue de la réalisation des objectifs du **Millénaire**.
  Particular attention shall be given to social sectors and to progress made towards **achieving** the MDGs.
  ([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 1078963)

- Réaliser les objectifs du **Millénaire** pour le développement et lutter contre la pauvreté
  **Achieving** MDGs and reducing human poverty
  ([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 13619499)

## development

Used about 999 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 999). Meaning: [development in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/development/).

- Les objectifs du **Millénaires** pour le développement ne pourront être réalisés sans un financement suffisant du développement.
  The MDGs will not be achieved without adequate financing for **development**.
  ([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 21613139)

## More sentences

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

- L'arbre **millénaire** a été abattu par le bûcheron.
  The thousand-year-old tree was cut down by the logger.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and islandisto · checked, community translation · [\#5987982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5987982) [\#8639005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8639005))

- Pendant plusieurs **millénaires**, cette volonté d'unification a fait l'objet de guerres sanglantes.
  For millenniums bloody wars have been fought to make it a unification.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1721237)

- Plusieurs centres historiques **millénaires** ont été dévastés, détruits par les forces d'occupation israéliennes.
  Many age-old historical centres have been devastated, destroyed by the Israeli occupying forces.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 405980)

## Grammar

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