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# telles — French to English

How French *telles* 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: telles (170 367). By style: everyday 89 · literary 7 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 10 200 · legal and administrative 22 277 · UN documents 137 764.

## such

Used about 99 375 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 5 950 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 995 · UN documents ≈ 80 362). Meaning: [such in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/such/).

- Ne dis pas de **telles** choses !
  Don't say **such** things.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1935372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1935372) [\#1935651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1935651))

- Je connaissais bien, par les récits des voyageurs, certaines cavernes célèbres, mais aucune ne présentait de **telles** dimensions.
  I knew of celebrated caverns from the descriptions of travellers, but had never heard of any of **such** dimensions as this.
  ([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 2581)

- Moïse, dans la loi, nous a ordonné de lapider de **telles** femmes: toi donc, que dis-tu?
  Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone **such** women. What then do you say about her?”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 8:5)

- Inutile de souligner que de **telles** exportations seraient frauduleuses.
  It goes without saying that **such** exports would be fraudulent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1616823)

- d’autres dépenses de fonctionnement, **telles** que:
  other operating expenditure, **such** as:
  ([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 3778286)

## as

Used about 44 635 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 275 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 033 · UN documents ≈ 37 311). Meaning: [as in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/as/).

- Essaie de voir les choses **telles** qu'elles sont.
  Try to see things **as** they are.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#67319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67319) [\#1786433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1786433))

- Tel un oiseau fugitif, telle une nichée effarouchée, **Telles** seront les filles de Moab, au passage de l’Arnon.
  For it will be that **as** wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 16:2)

- (La Présidente déclare les deux positions communes approuvées **telles** que modifiées)
  (The President declared the two common positions approved **as** amended)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 72623)

- **Telles** que définies à l’article 1er, paragraphe 2, point a), de la directive 2006/125/CE.
  **As** defined in Article 1(2)(a) of Directive 2006/125/EC.
  ([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 2039065)

- Les informations ci-dessous sont reproduites **telles** qu &apos; elles ont été reçues
  The information below is reproduced **as** received and does not imply
  ([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 28447189)

## More sentences

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

- Je sais que certaines d'entre vous veulent revenir aux choses **telles** qu'elles étaient mais ça ne va pas se produire.
  I know some of you want to go back to the way things were, but that's not going to happen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2042930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2042930) [\#2468010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2468010))

- Tom souhaite garder les choses **telles** qu'elles sont.
  Tom wants to keep things the way they are.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by KotobaNiko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1884427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1884427) [\#2365221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2365221))

- J'aime les choses **telles** qu'elles sont.
  I like things the way they are.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2377484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2377484) [\#2383962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2383962))

## 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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