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# moins — French to English

How French *moins* 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: moins (445 152). By style: everyday 1 185 · literary 165 · biblical 64 · parliamentary 30 800 · legal and administrative 77 695 · UN documents 335 243.

## least

Used about 206 343 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 296 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 13 475 · legal and administrative ≈ 38 848 · UN documents ≈ 153 653). Meaning: [least in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/least/).

- Écris au **moins** 250 mots.
  Write at **least** 250 words.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CM · checked, community translation · [\#750394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/750394) [\#750397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/750397))

- --Au **moins** trente sous.
  “Thirty sous at **least**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8676)

- Si pour d’autres je ne suis pas apôtre, je le suis au **moins** pour vous; car vous êtes le sceau de mon apostolat dans le Seigneur.
  If to others I am not an apostle, yet at **least** I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:2)

- Il faudrait au **moins** que certains avis soient émis en la matière.
  There should at **least** be some advice on that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 233341)

- Ces résultats sont mis à jour au **moins** une fois par an.
  The results shall be updated at **least** every year.
  ([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 4840116)

## less

Used about 88 563 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 321 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 9 625 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 661 · UN documents ≈ 55 874). Meaning: [less in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/less/).

- Il y en a un de **moins**.
  There is one **less**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#1635525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1635525) [\#4901098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4901098))

- —On le serait à **moins**!
  "One might be, with **less** reason than now."
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2855)

- Les Israélites firent ainsi; et ils en ramassèrent les uns plus, les autres **moins**.
  The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some **less**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 16:17)

- Je suis malheureusement beaucoup **moins** optimiste qu’elle.
  Unfortunately, I am much **less** optimistic than she is.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541666)

- **moins** de 1,2 % de nickel,
  **less** than 1,2 % of nickel,
  ([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 5281050)

## than

Used about 8 711 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 99 · biblical ≈ 9 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 619 · UN documents ≈ 6 984). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- Je détiens **moins** de livres que toi.
  I have fewer books **than** you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zaphod · checked, community translation · [\#812495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/812495) [\#3704373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3704373))

- Je vous dis qu’en ce jour Sodome sera traitée **moins** rigoureusement que cette ville-là.
  I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom **than** for that city.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 10:12)

- Si une séquence comporte **moins** de 9 caractères, insérer des zéros supplémentaires en position initiale.
  Where a series has fewer **than** 9 characters, additional zeros shall be inserted on the left hand side
  ([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 3920043)

- Aujourd &apos; hui, il possède **moins** de 225 ogives nucléaires, toutes du même type.
  Today we have fewer **than** 225 warheads, all of a single type.
  ([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 30129835)

- Tu as trois ans de **moins** que Tom.
  You're three years younger **than** Tom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by davidcfres and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5212513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5212513) [\#5213746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5213746))

## one

Used about 8 658 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 619 · UN documents ≈ 6 984). Meaning: [one in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/one/).

- Si un triangle a deux angles droits, c'est un carré avec un côté en **moins**.
  If a triangle has two right angles, it's a square missing **one** side.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Goofy and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#697962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/697962) [\#695505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/695505))

- cinq fois j’ai reçu des Juifs quarante coups **moins** un,
  Five times I received forty stripes minus **one** from the Jews.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 11:24)

- une configuration présentant au **moins** une des deux caractéristiques suivantes:
  a configuration of a minimum of **one** of the following two characteristics:
  ([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 2962439)

- Plus de la moitié des enfants de **moins** de 5 ans qui ont eu la diarrhée en 1994 ont pris de l &apos; &quot; oralite &quot; , ce qui est très positif.
  **One** very positive development is that over half of the children under the age of five who had diarrhoea in 1994 took Oralite.
  ([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 7918105)

- Si tu y vas par le bus, tu peux y être dans environ trois fois **moins** de temps.
  If you go by bus, you can get there in about **one**-third of the time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#35386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35386) [\#452555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/452555))

## More sentences

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

- Les Italiens ne portent pas de tongs, à **moins** qu'ils ne soient à la piscine ou à la plage.
  Italians don't wear flip-flops, unless they're at the pool or beach.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#7033309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7033309) [\#9868564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9868564))

- Je serai de retour en **moins** de temps qu'il ne faut pour le dire.
  I'll be back before you know it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1412064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1412064) [\#1413214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1413214))

- Je n'irai pas avec vous à **moins** que vous me disiez où nous nous rendons.
  I won't go with you unless you tell me where we're going.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#671653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/671653) [\#809414](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809414))

## 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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