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# moitié — French to English

How French *moitié* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: moitié (37 083), moitiées (1), moitiés (380). By style: everyday 230 · literary 12 · biblical 60 · parliamentary 2 895 · legal and administrative 2 331 · UN documents 31 936.

## half

Used about 18 212 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 195 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 54 · parliamentary ≈ 2 096 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 369 · UN documents ≈ 14 486). Meaning: [half in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/half/).

- Nous avons à **moitié** raison.
  We're **half** right.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2240585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240585) [\#4801647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4801647))

- **Moitié** de progrès; quasi-droit.
  **Half** of progress, quasi-right.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18099)

- Derrière ce chœur marchaient Hosée et la **moitié** des chefs de Juda,
  and after them went Hoshaiah, with **half** of the princes of Judah,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 12:32)

- Plus de la **moitié** des amendements du Parlement ont été acceptés.
  More than **half** of Parliament's amendments have been accepted.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1252256)

- Cependant les prix ont diminué au cours de la seconde **moitié** de la PE.
  However, prices decreased in the second **half** of the IP.
  ([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 2203343)

## halves

Used about 10 852 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 200 · legal and administrative ≈ 758 · UN documents ≈ 9 877).

- Ne fais pas les choses à **moitié**.
  Never do things by **halves**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AqQoyriq\_1 · checked, community translation · [\#4571664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4571664) [\#134973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134973))

- Or, il est tout simplement impossible d'effectuer une division arithmétique en obtenant toujours des **moitiés** égales.
  It is simply impossible to apply an arithmetical division into equal **halves**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1025040)

- Fruits entiers, **moitiés** et quarts
  Whole, **halves** and quarters
  ([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 1036929)

- Plus petit que trois quarts de **moitiés**
  Smaller than three-fourths **halves**
  ([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 5511279)

- Coupe le papier en deux **moitiés**.
  Cut the paper into two **halves**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by franlexcois and NatsuDonkey · checked, community translation · [\#4958665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4958665) [\#4958914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4958914))

## cut

Used about 1 975 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 975). Meaning: [cut in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cut/).

- 1. L &apos; élément de frappe peut être obtenu par coupage en deux **moitiés** d &apos; un élément circulaire complet.
  1. Saddle may be made as a complete diameter and **cut** as shown to make two components.
  ([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 20987842)

- La carcasse est partagée en deux **moitiés** par une coupe longitudinale opérée par le milieu le long des vertèbres sacrées, lombaires et thoraciques.
  The carcase is split into sides by one longitudinal **cut** made centrally down the sacral, lumbar, thoracic vertebra.
  ([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 28050973)

- La carcasse est partagée en deux **moitiés** par une coupe longitudinale opérée par le milieu le long des vertèbres sacrées, lombaires et thoraciques.
  The carcase is split into sides by one longitudinal - **cut** made centrally down the sacral, lumbar, thoracic vertebrae.
  ([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 15494456)

## More sentences

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

- Il a donné à peu près la **moitié** de ses revenus à ceux dans le besoin.
  He gave away about one-tenth of his income to the poor.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nrms and CK · checked, community translation · [\#288192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/288192) [\#1585158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1585158))

- Je suis à la **moitié** de ce roman policier.
  I'm halfway through this crime novel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and LittleBoy · checked, community translation · [\#968126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/968126) [\#967992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/967992))

- Je suis à la **moitié** de ce roman policier.
  I'm halfway through this detective story.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6872971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6872971) [\#967992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/967992))

## Grammar

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