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# milliers — French to English

How French *milliers* 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: milliers (29 353). By style: everyday 86 · literary 4 · biblical 37 · parliamentary 4 220 · legal and administrative 1 209 · UN documents 23 797.

## thousands

Used about 26 357 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 4 132 · legal and administrative ≈ 781 · UN documents ≈ 21 318). Forms: thousand, thousands.

- Des **milliers** de gens étaient là.
  **Thousands** of people were there.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#24497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24497) [\#1351786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1351786))

- D'ailleurs, ce n'est qu'un début, un moyen d'amasser quelques **milliers** de francs pour m'établir ensuite.
  And after all it is only to make a beginning, a way of saving a few **thousand** francs to start fair with afterward.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2141)

- Car tous les animaux des forêts sont à moi, Toutes les bêtes des montagnes par **milliers**;
  For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a **thousand** hills.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 50:10)

- Ils sous-tendent des **milliers** d'emplois.
  Behind them there are many **thousands** of jobs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1746941)

- Heures travaillées (en **milliers**)
  Hours worked (in **thousands**)
  ([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 2944389)

## More sentences

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

- Je t’ai multipliée par dix **milliers**, comme les herbes des champs. Et tu pris de l’accroissement, tu grandis, tu devins d’une beauté parfaite; tes seins se formèrent, ta chevelure se développa. Mais tu étais nue, entièrement nue.
  I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent beauty. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:7)

- Je suis parfaitement conscient du fait que des **milliers** d’Européens craignent la concurrence mondiale et que, par conséquent, ils s’opposent à de nombreux changements.
  I am well aware that millions of Europeans fear global competition and that, as a result, they also oppose many changes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 837303)

- Volume des exportations (en **milliers** de tonnes)
  Export Volume (in 1000(k) tonnes)
  ([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 3957638)

## Grammar

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