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# nombre — French to English

How French *nombre* 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: nombre (632 166), nombres (2 098). By style: everyday 352 · literary 19 · biblical 237 · parliamentary 28 880 · legal and administrative 46 019 · UN documents 558 757.

## number

Used about 465 584 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 276 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 89 · parliamentary ≈ 17 448 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 514 · UN documents ≈ 413 247). Forms: number, numbers. Meaning: [number in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/number/).

- Nous avons les **nombres**.
  We have the **numbers**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Seael · checked, community translation · [\#13744463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13744463) [\#13744685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13744685))

- Le symbole n'est pas le **nombre**.
  The symbol is not the **number**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2524)

- Il fait des choses grandes et insondables, Des merveilles sans **nombre**;
  who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without **number**;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 5:9)

- Les **nombres**, en effet, parlent d'eux-mêmes.
  The **numbers**, after all, speak for themselves.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1147584)

- en **nombres** absolus; ou
  as an absolute **number**; or
  ([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 4851950)

## more

Used about 25 154 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 903 · legal and administrative ≈ 959 · UN documents ≈ 23 282). Meaning: [more in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/more/).

- «Soyez à bord mardi, à sept heures du matin,» dit M. Bjarne après avoir empoché un **nombre** respectable de species-dollars.
  "You must be on board on Tuesday, at seven in the morning," said Captain Bjarne, after having pocketed **more** dollars than were his due.
  ([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 737)

- Balak envoya de nouveau des chefs en plus grand **nombre** et plus considérés que les précédents.
  Balak again sent princes, **more**, and more honorable than they.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 22:15)

- Le **nombre** de voix dont ils disposent a été accru, au détriment des petits États membres.
  They gained **more** votes at the expense of small countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 196485)

- En choisissant entre ces deux derniers **nombres** celui qui entraîne les prescriptions les plus sévères.
  Whichever results in **more** severe requirements.
  ([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 5163720)

- Le rapport entre ces deux **nombres** pourra être différent si le Jury central le juge bon.
  **More** or fewer candidates may be convoked if the Central Examinations Board considers it to be warranted. &quot;
  ([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 14307034)

## many

Used about 17 606 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 5 415 · legal and administrative ≈ 479 · UN documents ≈ 11 641). Meaning: [many in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/many/).

- Un bon **nombre** de personnes étaient là.
  A good **many** people were there.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#63622](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/63622) [\#10983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10983))

- —Croyez-vous, dis-je, que le **nombre** de ces audacieux fût si grand?
  "Do you really think there are **many** people bold enough?" said I.
  ([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 430)

- Car tu feras la guerre avec prudence, Et le salut est dans le grand **nombre** des conseillers.
  for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in **many** advisors.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 24:6)

- **Nombre** d'entre nous approuvent ce fondement.
  **Many** of us believe that that is right.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 892642)

- Or, dans un grand **nombre** de cas, l'exercice fiscal correspond à l'année civile.
  Now, in **many** cases, the tax year corresponds to the calendar 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 1365723)

## More sentences

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

- Elle m'a aidé un **nombre** incalculable de fois.
  She helped me out countless times.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2199788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2199788) [\#2200104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2200104))

- La récente pénurie de café a occasionné un grand **nombre** de problèmes.
  The recent shortage of coffee has given rise to a lot of problems.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#243778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/243778) [\#792866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/792866))

- Un certain **nombre** de bardeaux se sont envolés du toit lors de la tempête.
  Quite a few shingles flew off the roof during the storm.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#718442](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/718442) [\#801669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801669))

## 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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