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# sept — French to English

How French *sept* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: sept (54 719), septe (1), septs (2). By style: everyday 323 · literary 58 · biblical 388 · parliamentary 2 916 · legal and administrative 4 025 · UN documents 47 012.

## seven

Used about 43 799 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 269 · literary ≈ 44 · biblical ≈ 388 · parliamentary ≈ 2 369 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 935 · UN documents ≈ 37 794). Meaning: [seven in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/seven/).

- Il a **sept** fils.
  He has **seven** sons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fs and WestofEden · checked, community translation · [\#2698783](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2698783) [\#535030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/535030))

- --Près de **sept** grandes lieues.
  “Nearly **seven** good leagues.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5609)

- Tous les **sept** ans, tu feras relâche.
  At the end of every **seven** years, you shall cancel debts.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 15:1)

- C'est ce que nous avons fait pendant **sept** ans.
  That is what we have been doing for the last **seven** years.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1663846)

- au moins deux des **sept** symptômes suivants:
  At least two of the following **seven**:
  ([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 4520209)

## years

Used about 1 912 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 61 · UN documents ≈ 1 844).

- Mon ami a dix-**sept** ans.
  My friend is seventeen **years** old.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by al and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#761865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/761865) [\#333492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/333492))

- Il baissait Wellington d'une haine directe qui plaisait à la multitude; et depuis dix-**sept** ans, à peine attentif aux événements intermédiaires, il avait majestueusement gardé la tristesse de Waterloo.
  He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen **years**, he majestically preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to intervening events.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22984)

- Nous reprochons à la proposition de la Commission la limitation générale de l'autorisation à une durée de **sept** ans.
  What is very negative about the Commission proposal is that it lays down that consent shall generally be granted for a fixed period of 7 **years**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1956271)

- **Sept** cent soixante-dix-huit de ces enfants (91 % de l &apos; ensemble des bénéficiaires) étaient âgés de 10 à 14 ans ou de 15 à 18 ans.
  Moreover, 778 (91%) of the beneficiaries were in the age bracket 10-14 and 15-18 **years**.
  ([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 29498482)

- Quiconque enlève un mineur par la force ou la séduction encourt une peine de trois mois à **sept** ans d &apos; emprisonnement assortie d &apos; un travail.
  A person who kidnaps a minor by force or enticement shall be punished by imprisonment with work for not less than 3 months but not more than 7 **years**.
  ([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 24134374)

## days

Used about 503 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 503).

- Le TSV quotidien maximal peut être prolongé d’une heure au maximum, pas plus de deux fois par période de **sept** jours consécutifs.
  The maximum daily FDP may be extended by up to 1 hour not more than twice in any 7 consecutive **days**.
  ([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 3247231)

- Le véhicule présenté doit être en bon état mécanique, il doit avoir parcouru au minimum 300 km au cours des **sept** jours précédant l’essai.
  The vehicle shall be in good mechanical condition and have been driven at 300 km during 7 **days** before the test.
  ([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 5486309)

- Ce signalement est transmis à l'administrateur national ou à l'administrateur central, selon le cas, dans les **sept** jours ouvrables.
  That report shall be forwarded to the national administrator or the central administrator where appropriate, within 7 working **days**.
  ([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 4984246)

- Les demandes de droits d'importation sont présentées au cours des **sept** premiers jours du mois précédant chaque sous-période visée à l'article 2.
  Applications for import rights shall be submitted in the first 7 **days** of the month preceding each of the subperiods referred to in Article 2.
  ([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 3724798)

- Les 24 et 26 octobre 2011, il a condamné les militants de la société civile. Alyaksandr Valantsevich et Alyaksandr Saldatsenka à **sept** jours d'emprisonnement.
  On 24 and 26 October 2011, he sentenced civil society activists Alyaksandr Valantsevich and Alyaksandr Saldatsenka to 7 **days** in jail.
  ([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 3027609)

## three

Used about 2 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2). Meaning: [three in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/three/).

- Ceci, mesdames, que vous buvez d'un air tranquille, est du vin de Madère, sachez-le, du cru de Coural das Freiras qui est à trois cent dix-**sept** toises au-dessus du niveau de la mer!
  This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das Freiras, which is **three** hundred and seventeen fathoms above 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 · hugo les miserables, row 3123)

- --Toi, tu as une femme qui t'aime.--Toi, tu as ta vieille mère.--Toi, tu n'as plus ni père ni mère, qu'est-ce que tes trois petits frères vont devenir?--Toi, tu es père de cinq enfants.--Toi, tu as le droit de vivre, tu as dix-**sept** ans, c'est trop tôt.
  “You have a wife who loves you.”—“You have your aged mother.”—” You have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your **three** little brothers?”—“You are the father of five children.”—“You have a right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25726)

## More sentences

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

- Demain c'est mon anniversaire, et j'aurai dix-**sept** ans.
  Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be seventeen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#323316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/323316) [\#466789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/466789))

- Les blondes gagnent **sept** pour cent de plus que les femmes ayant n'importe quelle autre couleur de cheveux.
  Blondes earn 7% more than women with any other hair color.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#825615](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/825615) [\#3521316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3521316))

- Marie se lève le matin à **sept** heures.
  Mary gets up at 7 in the morning.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and kaiperkins271 · checked, community translation · [\#6900575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6900575) [\#6771512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6771512))

## 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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