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# semaines — French to English

How French *semaines* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: semaines (38 473). By style: everyday 263 · literary 7 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 5 246 · legal and administrative 3 683 · UN documents 29 260.

## weeks

Used about 37 452 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 225 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 5 027 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 530 · UN documents ≈ 28 650). Forms: week, weeks.

- Trois **semaines** sont passées.
  Three **weeks** went by.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1434382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1434382) [\#4900546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4900546))

- Plusieurs **semaines** s'étaient écoulées.
  Many **weeks** had elapsed.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3582)

- En ce temps-là, moi, Daniel, je fus trois **semaines** dans le deuil.
  In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole **weeks**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 10:2)

- Nous en avons beaucoup discuté ces dernières **semaines**.
  We have discussed this issue a great deal in recent **weeks**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 190052)

- à l’âge de **semaines**;\]
  at the age of **weeks**;\]
  ([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 3620689)

## More sentences

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

- Je suis payé une fois par deux **semaines**.
  I'm paid fortnightly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#2908858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2908858) [\#1624976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1624976))

- Deux **semaines** sont passées et je ne vous ai pas vues.
  A fortnight has passed and I haven't seen you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10131911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10131911) [\#1721757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1721757))

- Deux **semaines** sont passées et je ne vous ai pas vus.
  A fortnight has passed and I haven't seen you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10131911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10131911) [\#1721756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1721756))

## 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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