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

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Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
Il a une double personnalité. He has a dual personality.
Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.
Un double s'il vous plaît. Double, please.
Nous aimerions une chambre double avec bain. We'd like a double room with bath.
Voudriez-vous une simple ou une double ? Would you like a single or a double?
Je voudrais une chambre double moins chère. I would like a less expensive double room.
Un expresso double pour consommer à l'intérieur. A double expresso to drink here.
C'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur. It's double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
J'ai payé le double de la somme. I paid double the sum.
Nous allons devoir double notre budget pour l'an prochain. We'll have to double our budget for next year.
J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin. I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Son salaire est le double de ce qu'il était il y a sept ans. His salary is double what it was seven years ago.
Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis. I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.
Ses revenus sont à présent le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. His income is now double what it was ten years ago.
Il laça la chaussure de son fils en faisant un double nœud et il dit : «Voilà, ça devrait aller comme ça.» He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."
Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
En 2020, la population de cette ville aura doublée. By the year 2020, the population of this city will have doubled.
J'ai été doublé par une voiture. I was overtaken by the car.
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