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# quel — French to English

How French *quel* 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: quel (53 681), quele (2), queles (1), quels (31 438). By style: everyday 2 738 · literary 93 · biblical 123 · parliamentary 12 807 · legal and administrative 5 818 · UN documents 63 543.

## how

Used about 5 664 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 314 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 2 001 · legal and administrative ≈ 121 · UN documents ≈ 3 209). Meaning: [how in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/how/).

- À **quel** point tu as faim ?
  **How** hungry are you?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3550097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3550097) [\#3551584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3551584))

- --**Quel** âge a-t-elle?
  “**How** old is she?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3377)

- Léa dit: **Quel** bonheur! Et elle l’appela du nom de Gad.
  Leah said, “**How** fortunate!” She named him Gad.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 30:11)

- Mais c'est en de pareils instants que vous vous rendez compte à **quel** point les animaux voyagent.
  But it is at a time like this that you realise **how** mobile animals are.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 162938)

- **Quel** est le bilan des premiers mois du guichet unique pour les services parlementaires aux députés?
  Now that it has been operating for several months, **how** effective has the one-stop shop for the provision of parliamentary services to Members been?
  ([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 5605498)

## know

Used about 3 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 114 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 800 · UN documents ≈ 2 567). Meaning: [know in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/know/).

- Tu sais **quel** jour on est ?
  Do you **know** what today is?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Maxence and CK · checked, community translation · [\#12095808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12095808) [\#7702135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7702135))

- Elle n'eût donc su **quel** nom donner à ce qu'elle éprouvait maintenant.
  Therefore, she did not **know** what name to give to what she now felt.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19484)

- Veillez donc, puisque vous ne savez pas **quel** jour votre Seigneur viendra.
  Watch therefore, for you don’t **know** in what hour your Lord comes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 24:42)

- Enfin, je ne sais pas **quels** doutes M. García-Margallo a perçus.
  Finally, I do not **know** what doubts Mr García-Margallo has perceived.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 874911)

- 475. Les membres du Comité ont demandé **quel** soutien l &apos; État apportait aux études sur les femmes.
  475. Members wanted to **know** how the Government is supporting women &apos; s studies.
  ([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 1500546)

## More sentences

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

- **Quel** est le plus beau cadeau que vous avez reçu à Noël dernier ?
  What was the best present you got last Christmas?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5705388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5705388) [\#9498808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9498808))

- **Quel** être humain est capable d'un tel acte ?
  What kind of man could do such a thing?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slahatuvelli and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#13906150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13906150) [\#13905921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13905921))

- **Quel** jour es-tu libre habituellement ?
  What day are you usually free?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and fcbond · checked, community translation · [\#328973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328973) [\#1690321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1690321))

## 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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