Usage examples of "avoir quarante ans bien sonnés" in French with translation to English

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Quarante ans ont passé. Forty years passed.
Ils n'avaient pas combattu pendant plus de quarante ans. They had not fought for more than forty years.
Vous me donnez quarante ans ? Vous êtes loin du compte. Do you take me for forty? You are wide of the mark.
Elle parait jeune à cause de son maquillage mais elle a déjà plus de quarante ans. She looks young because of her makeup, but she is already more than forty years old.
M. Smith a fondé cette école il y a quarante ans. Mr. Smith established this school forty years ago.
J'ai quarante ans. I'm forty years old.
Une femme de quarante ans n'est plus quelque chose que pour les hommes qui l'ont aimée dans sa jeunesse ! A forty-year-old woman is only something to the men who have loved her in her youth!
Il n'a pas tout à fait quarante ans. He is still on the right side of forty.
Mon grand-père ne se souvient de ce qui s'est passé hier, mais peut décrire en détail ce qui s'est passé il y a quarante ans. My grandfather often doesn't remember what happened yesterday but can describe in detail what happened forty years ago.
Il a un peu plus de quarante ans. He is a little over forty.
Le règne de Philippe II dura quarante ans. The reign of Philip II lasted forty years.
La vie commence à quarante ans. Life begins when you are forty.
Je lui donnai quarante ans. I guessed her to be 40.
Elle a certainement plus de quarante ans. She is certainly over forty.
Le roi a régné sur son peuple pendant quarante ans. The king reigned over his people for forty years.
Elle avait quarante ans, mais elle paraissait plus vieille. She was forty, but she appeared older.
Sa famille a émigré depuis son pays d'origine jusqu'au Brésil il y a quarante ans. His family emigrated from their mother country to Brazil forty years ago.
Des chercheurs de l'université de Paderborn ont établi qu'il fallait 2000 heures d'apprentissage de l'anglais à un francophone pour parler correctement. Sachant qu'il y a 32 semaines de cours par an et à 3h de cours par semaine, il faut donc 20,83 ans d'études à un Français pour bien parler anglais. Researchers at the university of Paderborn have established that it took up to 2000 hours of English learning for a French speaker to speak English correctly. Given that there are 32 weeks of classes in a year and with 3 hours of lessons every week, 20.83 years of study are thus necessary for a French person to speak good English.
Mon père va bientôt avoir 40 ans. My father will soon be forty years old.
Je vais avoir quatorze ans. I am going to be fourteen.
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