Usage examples of "old man" in English with translation to French

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The old man is hard to please. Le vieux est difficile à contenter.
The old man was starved to death. Le vieil homme fut affamé jusqu'à la mort.
Long, long ago, there lived an old man and his wife. Il y a très très longtemps vivaient un vieil homme et sa femme.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Le jeune homme connaît les règles, mais le vieillard connait les exceptions.
The old man was run over by a car. Le vieil homme fut écrasé par une voiture.
He is an old man and should be treated as such. C'est un vieil homme et il doit être traité comme tel.
The old man has missing teeth. Le vieil homme est édenté.
The old man tends to exaggerate. Le vieux exagère volontiers.
I remember asking an old man the way. Je me souviens avoir demandé mon chemin à un vieil homme.
The old man wanders from town to town peddling his wares. Le vieil homme erre de ville en ville, colportant ses marchandises.
The old man served the king for many years. Le vieil homme servit le roi durant de nombreuses années.
The old man prefers horse carriages to cars. Le vieil homme préfère les calèches aux voitures.
The old man starved to death. Le vieil homme mourut de faim.
A man named Carlos came to a mountain village looking for that old man. Un homme appelé Carlos vint à un village de montagne cherchant ce vieil homme.
An old man was at rest under the tree. Un vieil homme se reposait sous l'arbre.
The old man died last week. Le vieil homme est mort la semaine dernière.
I met an old man who says that he's never eaten at a restaurant in his whole life. J'ai rencontré un vieil homme qui dit qu'il n'a jamais mangé dans un restaurant de toute sa vie.
Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village. Il était une fois un vieil homme avare qui vivait au village.
An old man came along. Un vieil homme s'approcha.
The poor old man was reduced to just a skeleton. Le pauvre vieillard était réduit à l'état de squelette.
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