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# ouest — French to English

How French *ouest* 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: ouest (49 758), oueste (7). By style: everyday 111 · literary 10 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 597 · legal and administrative 3 350 · UN documents 44 696.

## west

Used about 44 686 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 106 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 431 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 513 · UN documents ≈ 40 633). Forms: west, western. Meaning: [west in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/west/).

- On va vers l'**ouest**.
  We're going **west**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2240776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240776) [\#13002648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002648))

- Il est possible que nous soyons plus heureux en suivant le tunnel de l'**ouest**.»
  Perhaps we shall be more fortunate if we follow the **western** tunnel."
  ([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 1870)

- Mais, sans cette directive, "l’**Ouest** sauvage" aurait été plus sauvage encore.
  Without the directive, however, the Wild **West** would have been a lot wilder
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 523075)

- à l’**ouest**: la route no 4,
  to the **west**: road number 4,
  ([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 2372834)

- Asie du Sud et du Sud-**Oueste**
  South and South-**West** Asiae
  ([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 18912924)

## east

Used about 349 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 349). Meaning: [east in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/east/).

- à l'est, à 2,0 miles au nord-**ouest** de l'intersection entre Milpitas Road et Las Cruces Road;
  **East**: 2,0 miles northwest from intersection between Milpitas Road and Las Cruces Road.
  ([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 3729678)

- De 62° S 60° E, plein est jusqu'à 70° E, plein sud jusqu'à la côte, vers l'**ouest** le long de la côte jusqu'à 60° E, plein nord jusqu'à 62° S.
  From 62° S 60° E, due **east** to 70° E, due south to coast, westward along coast to 60° E, due north to 62° S.
  ([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 3920251)

- De 60° S 10° E, plein est jusqu'à 20° E, plein sud jusqu'à la côte, vers l'**ouest** le long de la côte jusqu'à 10° E, plein nord jusqu'à 60° S.
  From 60° S 10° E, due **east** to 20° E, due south to coast, westward along coast to 10° E, due north to 60° S.
  ([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 4248912)

- De 60° S 100° E, plein est jusqu'à 110° E, plein sud jusqu'à la côte, vers l'**ouest** le long de la côte jusqu'à 100° E, plein nord jusqu'à 60° S.
  From 60° S 100° E, due **east** to 110° E, due south to coast, westward along coast to 100° E, due north to 60° S.
  ([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 3920243)

- De 70° 50′ S 140° O, plein est jusqu'à 130° O, plein sud jusqu'à la côte, vers l'**ouest** le long de la côte jusqu'à 140° O, plein nord jusqu'à 70° 50′ S.
  From 70° 50′ S 140° W, due **east** to 130° W, due south to coast, westward along coast to 140° W, due north to 70° 50′ S.
  ([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 4899293)

## north

Used about 70 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 70). Meaning: [north in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/north/).

- Division nord-**ouest** - Sagaing, et ministre régional sans portefeuille
  **North** Western (Sagaing Division) and Regional Minister without portfolio
  ([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 1881023)

## south

Used about 70 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 70). Meaning: [south in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/south/).

- Sites situés sur la côte méridionale de la Suède et la côte ouverte au sud-**ouest** de la mer Baltique le long du Danemark et de l'Allemagne
  Sites at the Southern Swedish coast and the **South** western Baltic Sea open coast along Denmark and Germany
  ([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 1414104)

## More sentences

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

- « C'est de l'arabe, ça ? » « Non, c'est de l'ouïghour, une langue qui se parle au Nord-**Ouest** de la Chine. »
  "Is this Arabic?" "No, it's Uyghur - a language that's spoken in northwestern China."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · [\#912770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/912770) [\#912768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/912768))

- « Est-ce de l'arabe ? » « Non, c'est du ouïghour — une langue parlée dans le Nord-**Ouest** de la Chine. »
  "Is this Arabic?" "No, it's Uyghur - a language that's spoken in northwestern China."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · [\#912770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/912770) [\#914343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/914343))

- Et comme le port n’était pas bon pour hiverner, la plupart furent d’avis de le quitter pour tâcher d’atteindre Phénix, port de Crète qui regarde le sud-**ouest** et le nord-**ouest**, afin d’y passer l’hiver.
  Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:12)

## Grammar

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