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# termes — French to English

How French *termes* 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: termes (131 282). By style: everyday 70 · literary 15 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 14 137 · legal and administrative 17 657 · UN documents 99 394.

## terms

Used about 52 664 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 5 301 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 886 · UN documents ≈ 41 414). Meaning: [terms in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/terms/).

- Référez-vous aux **termes** ci-hauts.
  Refer to the **terms** above.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11669694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11669694) [\#8899870](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8899870))

- En d'autres **termes**, descendre.
  In other **terms**, he must descend.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27826)

- Vous le mesurez aussi en **termes** financiers, bien évidemment.
  You measure them in financial **terms** too, of course.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1541964)

- les **termes** de la convention d'acquisition;
  the **terms** of the acquisition agreement;
  ([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 2346804)

- Aux **termes** de cette loi :
  In **terms** of this act:
  ([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 9645313)

## words

Used about 21 203 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 651 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 046 · UN documents ≈ 14 495).

- En d'autres **termes**, elle est bête.
  In other **words**, she's dumb.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#870455](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/870455) [\#550093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/550093))

- En d'autres **termes**, elle nia à la nation ce qui la faisait nation et au citoyen ce qui le faisait citoyen.
  In other **words**, it denied to the nation that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a citizen.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18009)

- Alors Pierre, se présentant avec les onze, éleva la voix, et leur parla en ces **termes**: Hommes Juifs, et vous tous qui séjournez à Jérusalem, sachez ceci, et prêtez l’oreille à mes paroles!
  But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my **words**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 2:14)

- En d'autres **termes**, nous accédons à la demande de Mme Lenz.
  In other **words** we will do as Mrs Lenz asked.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887198)

- En d'autres **termes**, le niveau des coûts par PCN n'a pas influé sur les conclusions.
  In other **words**, the level of the costs per PCN had no bearing on the outcome.
  ([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 4602227)

## More sentences

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

- L'Algérie peut-elle dépasser l'Égypte en **termes** de population ?
  Can Algeria overtake Egypt's population?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10126164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10126164) [\#12104903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12104903))

- Votre montre est semblable à la mienne en **termes** de forme et de couleur.
  Your watch is similar to mine in shape and color.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#17105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17105) [\#549722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/549722))

- Un groupe d'étrangers est arrivé à Edo, Tokyo en d'autres **termes**.
  A group of foreigners arrived in Edo, i.e. Tokyo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gijom and CM · checked, community translation · [\#21886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21886) [\#9464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9464))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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