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# périodes — French to English

How French *périodes* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: périodes (32 380). By style: everyday 8 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 590 · legal and administrative 10 514 · UN documents 20 267.

## periods

Used about 21 472 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 663 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 981 · UN documents ≈ 11 822).

- Trouvez-vous que votre humeur change fréquemment sur de courtes **périodes** ?
  Do you find that your mood changes frequently in short **periods** of time?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · [\#9849635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9849635) [\#9983068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9983068))

- Je pense également que les **périodes** de conversion sont trop longues.
  In my view, the transition **periods** are too long.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1940798)

- «**Périodes** contingentaires jusqu’à 2023/2024: 308518000 kg
  ‘TRQ **periods** until 2023/2024: 308518000 kg
  ([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 5297019)

- Prévisions de dépenses pour les **périodes** allant du 1er janvier
  Cost estimate for the **periods** from 1 January to 30 June 1995
  ([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 696049)

- Trouves-tu que ton humeur change fréquemment sur de courtes **périodes** de temps ?
  Do you find that your mood changes frequently in short **periods** of time?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · [\#9849635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9849635) [\#9983071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9983071))

## times

Used about 1 197 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 133 · legal and administrative ≈ 219 · UN documents ≈ 844). Meaning: [times in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/times/).

- Tom et Marie ont traversé ensemble des **périodes** difficiles.
  Tom and Mary have been through some rough **times** together.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by calypsow and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8115438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8115438) [\#13252240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13252240))

- Le manque de moyens financiers survient précisément dans les **périodes** difficiles.
  It is especially when **times** are getting hard that funding runs short.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 238739)

- Depuis le début des années 90, Rolandwerft arme deux navires simultanément (excepté durant les **périodes** de faible demande).
  Since the early 1990s, Rolandwerft has been able to fit out two ships simultaneously (except at **times** of low demand).
  ([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 1125354)

- Pour les trois **périodes** de référence, le taux de chômage était plus d &apos; une fois et demie plus élevé chez les jeunes que dans la population totale.
  For all three years the youth unemployment rate was more than 1½ **times** the rate for the total population.
  ([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 5017664)

- Elle est nettement plus nécessaire, en revanche, durant les **périodes** difficiles et de privation.
  It is very much needed, however, in **times** of difficulty and hardship.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1092966)

## More sentences

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

- Tu devrais toujours économiser de l'argent en prévision de **périodes** de vaches maigres.
  You should always save money for a rainy day.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CM · checked, community translation · [\#32845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32845) [\#755918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/755918))

- —Parce que la vie animale n'a existé sur la terre qu'aux **périodes** secondaires, lorsque le terrain sédimentaire a été formé par les alluvions, et a remplacé les roches incandescentes de l'époque primitive.
  "Because animal life existed upon the earth only in the secondary period, when a sediment of soil had been deposited by the rivers, and taken the place of the incandescent rocks of the primitive period."
  ([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 2642)

- J'ai voté en faveur de l'amendement 1 à la proposition de calendrier des **périodes** de session du Parlement pour 2012 et 2013.
  I voted for Amendment 1 to the draft of the European Parliament's calendar of part-sessions for 2012 and 2013.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1515463)

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