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# petites — French to English

How French *petites* 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: petites (48 123). By style: everyday 150 · literary 30 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 8 439 · legal and administrative 5 672 · UN documents 33 826.

## small

Used about 36 017 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 7 033 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 963 · UN documents ≈ 23 960). Meaning: [small in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/small/).

- Les toilettes sont **petites**.
  The toilet is **small**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pkill and muriloricci · checked, community translation · [\#3807636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3807636) [\#10483356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10483356))

- Une des **petites** roues de devant du corbillard montait un peu sur un tas de terre au delà duquel on voyait une fosse ouverte.
  One of the **small** front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12102)

- Il vit aussi une pauvre veuve, qui y mettait deux **petites** pièces.
  He saw a certain poor widow casting in two **small** brass coins.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 21:2)

- Nous avons une chance d'obtenir quelques **petites** avancées.
  We may make some **small** steps forward.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1522816)

- Supplément en faveur des **petites** entreprises
  Supplement for **small** enterprises
  ([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 5627140)

## sized

Used about 118 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 118).

- Supplément en faveur des **petites** et moyennes entreprises \[12\](ESB)
  Supplement for medium-**sized** enterprises \[12\](GGE)
  ([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 5627139)

## More sentences

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

- Bonne nuit ! Il est temps pour les **petites** filles de se rendre au lit.
  Good night! It's time for little girls to go to bed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#3335641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3335641) [\#3336020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3336020))

- De **petites** choses ont souvent de grandes conséquences.
  Little things often have big consequences.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by guyniv and joshodude\_1308 · checked, community translation · [\#5543496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5543496) [\#5544631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5544631))

- Ce sont des **petites** frappes.
  They're two-bit hoods.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#14044530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14044530) [\#14044531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14044531))

## 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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