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# troisième — French to English

How French *troisième* 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: troisième (208 314), troisièmes (1 343). By style: everyday 114 · literary 32 · biblical 137 · parliamentary 7 135 · legal and administrative 15 710 · UN documents 186 529.

## third

Used about 197 278 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 105 · literary ≈ 32 · biblical ≈ 129 · parliamentary ≈ 5 730 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 470 · UN documents ≈ 176 814). Meaning: [third in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/third/).

- Tom battra en **troisième**.
  Tom will bat **third**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Thomz and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5757472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5757472) [\#5761537](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5761537))

- Il frappa un **troisième** coup.
  He tapped a **third** time.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1409)

- le **troisième**, à Harim; le quatrième, à Seorim;
  the **third** to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 24:8)

- **Troisième** et dernier point: le benchmarking.
  My **third** and final point concerns bench marks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725019)

- Article 28, paragraphe 2, **troisième** alinéa, RF
  Article 28(2) **third** subparagraph FR
  ([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 4535403)

## first

Used about 1 943 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 943). Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/).

- Les deux premières catégories d &apos; établissements sont situées dans les localités rurales et urbaines, mais les centres du **troisième** groupe se trouvent dans les villes.
  While the **first** two institutions are located in rural and urban localities, the MCH/FPs are based in cities.
  ([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 10424766)

## c

Used about 207 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 207). Meaning: [c in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/).

- Pour une définition de C, Hc, Hfx, t, T et t\*, consulter la **troisième** partie, titre II, chapitre 4, sections 4 et 5, du CRR.
  For a definition of **C**, Hc, Hfx, t, T and t\* see Sections 4 and 5 of Chapter 4 of Title II of Part Three CRR.
  ([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 5166985)

## states

Used about 108 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 108).

- En dehors des réunions visant à examiner le statu quo, il n’y a eu aucune réflexion sur le traité constitutionnel impliquant le Parlement européen, le Conseil et la Commission en vue d’examiner les arguments et les critiques de ceux qui, dans le sillage de l’adoption par certains pays, du rejet par d’autres et du silence des **troisièmes**, ont souligné l’inadéquation de certaines parties du texte et la nature confuse du texte dans son ensemble.
  Aside from meetings aimed at examining the status quo, there has been no reflection on the Constitutional Treaty involving the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, aiming at considering the reasons and the criticisms of those who, in the wake of the ratification by some Member **States**, the rejection by others and the silence of other countries, highlighted the inadequacy of some parts of the text and the muddled nature of the text as a whole.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 827723)

## More sentences

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

- Je ne sais pas avec quelles armes la **troisième** guerre mondiale sera menée, mais la quatrième se fera avec des bâtons et des pierres.
  I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Clavain and Clavain · checked, community translation · [\#433634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/433634) [\#611597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/611597))

- Il y a une portion de côte épuisante au vingt-**troisième** mille du marathon.
  There's a grueling uphill stretch of road at mile 23 of the marathon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#662975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662975) [\#809761](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809761))

- Les résultats étaient les suivants : Japon, premier ; Espagne, deuxième ; Italie, **troisième**.
  The results were as follows: Japan 1st; Spain 2nd; Italy 3rd.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#238610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238610) [\#391036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391036))

## Grammar

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