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# quelle — French to English

How French *quelle* 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: quelle (65 328), quelles (45 795). By style: everyday 2 893 · literary 84 · biblical 138 · parliamentary 13 896 · legal and administrative 8 354 · UN documents 85 758.

## any

Used about 9 871 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 121 · parliamentary ≈ 579 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 131 · UN documents ≈ 8 040). Meaning: [any in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/any/).

- Dessine n'importe **quelle** forme sur une feuille de papier.
  Draw **any** shape on a sheet of paper.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and calypsow · checked, community translation · [\#11850239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11850239) [\#8565428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8565428))

- Le budget annuel alloué à la traduction et à l'interprétation est bien plus éloquent que n'importe **quelle** réponse.
  The budget amount devoted to translation and interpretation speaks volumes more than **any** reply.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1489185)

- Ils ne peuvent donc pas être appliqués directement à n’importe **quelle** organisation dans n’importe **quelle** situation.
  Therefore they cannot be applied directly to **any** organisation in any situation.
  ([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 2781427)

- **Quelles** autres mesures envisage-t-il, le cas échéant?
  What further steps, if **any**, are under consideration?
  ([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 26752342)

- N'importe **quelle** voiture fera l'affaire, pourvu qu'elle roule.
  **Any** car whatever will do, provided it can be driven.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GLOBULE38 and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · [\#3484550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3484550) [\#2130236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2130236))

## how

Used about 7 481 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 271 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 2 027 · legal and administrative ≈ 696 · UN documents ≈ 4 467). Meaning: [how in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/how/).

- **Quelle** est la longueur du Nil ?
  **How** long is the Nile River?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and JFMorais · checked, community translation · [\#4256541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4256541) [\#6400169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6400169))

- --**Quelle** est la longueur de la bière?
  “**How** long is the coffin?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11838)

- Et moi, comment lui répondre? **Quelles** paroles choisir?
  **How** much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 9:14)

- **Quelles** qu'en soient les conséquences;
  No matter **how** trifling the cost;
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1548063)

- À **quelle** fréquence les connaissances du personnel chargé du contrôle des exportations/transferts sont-elles actualisées?
  **How** often is the export control staff’s knowledge updated?
  ([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 2302389)

## know

Used about 5 906 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 434 · UN documents ≈ 5 360). Meaning: [know in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/know/).

- **Quelles** langues connais-tu ?
  What languages do you **know**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and miflhanc · checked, community translation · [\#1550947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1550947) [\#1551179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1551179))

- Sais-tu **quelle** heure il est?
  “Do you **know** what o’clock it is?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6910)

- Je sais bien **quelles** sont vos pensées, Quels jugements iniques vous portez sur moi.
  “Behold, I **know** your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:27)

- Est-ce qu’on a le droit de savoir **quelle** est la décision qui a été prise?
  Do we have a right to **know** what decision has been made?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 664291)

- Je ne sais pas **quelle** a été la délimitation exacte du cadre de ces élections.
  I do not **know** the exact definition of the framework of these elections.
  ([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 12933914)

## More sentences

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

- **Quelle** est votre décision ?
  What's your decision?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2234169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2234169) [\#5367339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5367339))

- « **Quelle** heure il est ? » « J'ai pas de montre. »
  "What's the time?" "I don't have a watch."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and robbieheslop · checked, community translation · [\#6322202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6322202) [\#6322839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6322839))

- **Quelle** sorte de vin as-tu ?
  What kind of wine do you have?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#36679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36679) [\#1182832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1182832))

## 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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