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# poids — French to English

How French *poids* 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: poids (59 924). By style: everyday 288 · literary 6 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 3 439 · legal and administrative 33 571 · UN documents 22 568.

## weight

Used about 46 071 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 264 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 1 361 · legal and administrative ≈ 30 773 · UN documents ≈ 13 635). Meaning: [weight in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/weight/).

- Je perdrai du **poids**.
  I'll lose **weight**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2247780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247780) [\#1593888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1593888))

- Cet instrument allait, en effet, nous devenir inutile, du moment que le **poids** de l'air dépasserait sa pression calculée au niveau de l'Océan.
  And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as the **weight** of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained at the level of the sea.
  ([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 1534)

- Le tout ayant été vérifié, soit pour le nombre, soit pour le **poids**, on mit alors par écrit le **poids** du tout.
  Everything was counted and weighed; and all the **weight** was written at that time.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 8:34)

- Vous ne pouvez donner du **poids** à votre politique que si vous ignorez la réalité.
  You can only give any real **weight** to your policy if you disregard reality.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 511658)

- d'un **poids** excédant 450 g/m2
  Of a **weight** exceeding 450 g/m2
  ([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 1906959)

## more

Used about 1 243 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 72 · legal and administrative ≈ 699 · UN documents ≈ 470). Meaning: [more in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/more/).

- Leur **poids** spécifique dans le genre humain résulte de quelque chose de plus qu'un combat.
  Their specific gravity in the human species results from something **more** than a combat.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7459)

- On donnera plus de **poids** aux investissements et on veillera à une coordination et une collaboration plus étroites avec les institutions financières internationales.
  **More** importance will be attached to investment and we will seek closer coordination and cooperation with the international financial institutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1736090)

- d'un **poids** supérieur à 25 g/m2 mais n'excédant pas 70 g/m2
  Weighing **more** than 25 g/m2 but not more than 70 g/m2
  ([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 1907224)

- Aucun de ces indicateurs n &apos; était suffisant en lui-même pour donner une idée claire de la situation mais ensemble, ils avaient plus de **poids**.
  Each indicator by itself was insufficient to develop a clear picture of events, but together these indicators proved **more** substantial.
  ([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 16009333)

- Ne nous lassons pas de le répéter, songer, avant tout aux foules déshéritées et douloureuses, les soulager, les aérer, les éclairer, les aimer, leur élargir magnifiquement l'horizon, leur prodiguer sous toutes les formes l'éducation, leur offrir l'exemple du labeur, jamais l'exemple de l'oisiveté, amoindrir le **poids** du fardeau individuel en accroissant la notion du but universel, limiter la pauvreté sans limiter la richesse, créer de vastes champs d'activité publique et populaire, avoir comme Briarée cent mains à tendre de toutes parts aux accablés et aux faibles, employer la puissance collective à ce grand devoir d'ouvrir des ateliers à tous les bras, des écoles à toutes les aptitudes et des laboratoires à toutes les intelligences, augmenter le salaire, diminuer la peine, balancer le doit et l'avoir, c'est-à-dire proportionner la jouissance à l'effort et l'assouvissement au besoin, en un mot, faire dégager à l'appareil social, au profit de ceux qui souffrent et de ceux qui ignorent, plus de clarté et plus de bien-être, c'est là, que les âmes sympathiques ne l'oublient pas, la première des obligations fraternelles, c'est, que les coeurs égoïstes le sachent, la première des nécessités politiques.
  Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus **more** light and more comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21641)

## than

Used about 215 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 215). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- La Finlande et la Suède autorisent l' utilisation de **poids** lourds dont les dimensions dépassent les normes habituelles.
  Finland and Sweden allow lorries which are larger **than** normal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 281844)

- Avec un taux de 16,10% d’accidents mortels, la gravité des accidents impliquant un **poids** lourd est deux fois et demie supérieure à celle observée pour l’ensemble des accidents.
  With a 16.10% fatal accident rate, the seriousness of accidents involving heavy goods vehicles is two and a half times higher **than** that recorded for accidents as a whole.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 808589)

- Plus grave encore, certaines langues, comme la mienne - le catalan -, qui ont plus de **poids** que l’Union européenne ne le reconnaît, sont totalement ignorées dans cette Constitution.
  What is worse, some languages, such as my own – Catalan – which are stronger **than** acknowledged officially at European Union level, are blindly ignored in this Constitution.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 638132)

## 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 un vrai **poids** en moins sur mon esprit.
  That's a real load off my mind.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#4832998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4832998) [\#4996994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4996994))

- Je ne veux pas être un **poids** pour vous.
  I don't want to be a burden on you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and cairnhead · checked, community translation · [\#4758684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4758684) [\#2017727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2017727))

- Quel **poids** fait un stère de bois ?
  How heavy is a stere of wood?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#13806346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13806346) [\#8893552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8893552))

## Grammar

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