Usage examples of "c'est-à-dire" in French with translation to English

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Une fête aura lieu samedi prochain, c'est-à-dire le 25 août. A party will be held next Saturday, that is to say, on August 25th.
Mon père est mort il y a trois ans, c'est-à-dire en 1977. My father died three years ago, that is to say in 1977.
Il arriva à Tokyo il y a cinq ans, c'est-à-dire lorsqu'il avait 12 ans. He came to Tokyo five years ago, that is to say, when he was twelve years old.
Il y a des certitudes connues ; il y a des choses que nous savons savoir. Nous savons aussi qu'il y a des ignorances connues ; c'est-à-dire que nous savons qu'il y a des choses que nous ignorons. Mais il y a aussi des ignorances inconnues - celles dont nous ignorons que nous les ignorons. There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Il y a des certitudes connues ; il y a des choses que nous savons que nous savons. Nous savons aussi qu'il y a des incertitudes connues ; c'est-à-dire que nous savons qu'il y a des choses que nous ignorons. Mais il y a aussi des incertitudes inconnues - celles dont nous ne savons pas que nous les ignorons. There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Quand nous disons qu'une langue est culturellement transmise - c'est-à-dire qu'elle est apprise plutôt qu'héritée - nous voulons dire qu'elle fait partie de ce complexe entier de comportement appris et partagé que les anthropologues appellent "culture". When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.
Je finirai ce travail dans une semaine, c'est-à-dire le 5 mai. I'll finish the work in a week, that is, on May 5th.
Il sera de retour d'ici une semaine, c'est-à-dire le 10 décembre. He will be back a week from today, that is, on December 10.
L'argent vaut parfois plus que l'or, c'est-à-dire, en grandes quantités. Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
Il est blessé grièvement et il est inconscient; c'est-à-dire qu'il ne peut pas penser, parler, ou entendre. He is hurt badly and is unconscious; that is, he can't think, speak, or hear.
Le voyage supralumineux, c'est-à-dire à une vitesse supérieure à celle de la lumière, ne fut découvert que des siècles plus tard. Faster-than-light, aka superluminal, space travel was not discovered until centuries later.
Il n'était pas issu d'une culture « numérique » ; c'est-à-dire qu'il n'était pas dans leurs habitudes de tout compter dans la vie. He was not from a "numerical" culture; that is, it was not their habit to count everything in life.
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