Usage examples of "somme" in French with translation to English

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Elle avait seulement une petite somme d'argent. She had only a small sum of money.
Il a essayé de récupérer son manque de sommeil en faisant un somme. He tried to make up for his lack of sleep by taking a nap.
J'ai payé le double de la somme. I paid double the sum.
Ses dettes s'élèvent à une somme considérable. His debts amount to a considerable sum.
Cinq mille dollars est une grande somme d'argent. Five thousand dollars is a large sum of money.
La somme des angles d'un triangle vaut 180 degrés. The sum of all the angles in a triangle equals 180 degrees.
La somme de deux plus trois plus quatre est neuf. The sum of two plus three plus four is nine.
Le tout vaut plus que la somme de ses parties. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Elle déposa une grosse somme d'argent à la banque. She deposited a large sum of money in the bank.
J'ai dû payer une forte somme pour le récupérer. I had to pay a large sum of money to get it back.
Le tout est plus que la somme de ses parties. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Tout nombre pair est la somme de deux nombres premiers. Every even number is the sum of two primes.
Il essaya en vain de leur emprunter une grosse somme d'argent. He tried to borrow a large sum of money from them in vain.
Il reçut une importante somme d'argent en compensation de sa blessure. He received a large sum of money in compensation for his injury.
Tatoeba : Parce qu'une langue est plus que la somme de ses mots. Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.
Il a essayé, en vain, de leur emprunter une grosse somme d'argent. He tried, in vain, to borrow a large sum of money from them.
Tatoeba : Parce qu'une langue est bien davantage que la somme de ses mots. Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.
Un module est dit semi-simple s'il est somme de sous-modules simples. A module is said to be semisimple if it is the sum of simple submodules.
Axiome de Cole : La somme de l’intelligence répartie sur la planète est une constante ; la population augmente. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
Le théorème de Pythagore dit que dans un triangle rectangle le carré de l'hypoténuse est égal à la somme des carrés des deux autres cotés. Pythagoras' theorem says that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
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