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

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Plusieurs types traînaient devant le bar. Several guys were hanging around in front of the bar.
Nous avons cinq types de kébab. We have five kinds of kebab.
La science a découvert qu'il y a cinq types d'êtres humains. Science has discovered that there are five types of human beings.
Je ne suis pas comme le reste de ces types. I'm not like the rest of these guys.
J'ai lu plein de types de livres. I read all kinds of books.
Il existe deux types de gens : ceux qui savent comment écrire Libye, et ceux qui l'ignorent. There are two types of people: those who know how to write "Libya", and those who don't know that.
Pourquoi est-ce que je tire sur ces types, dis-moi, qu'ont-ils fait? Why am I shooting these guys, tell me, what have they done?
Les plantes insectivores sont équipées de différents types de pièges pour attraper des insectes. Insect-eating plants are equipped with various kinds of traps to catch insects.
Le rythme actuel est d'environ un crash aérien toutes les deux semaines, en tenant compte de tous les accidents graves sur tous les types d'avions de transport. The current rate is about one airplane crash every two weeks, measuring all serious accidents to all types of transport jets.
Après tout, les gens différents ont des manières différentes de manger, selon les types de cuisine qu'ils ont mangés traditionellement. After all, different people have different ways of eating, according to the kinds of food which they have traditionally eaten.
Ce type est une purge. That guy is a douche.
Quel type de sport apprécies-tu ? What kind of sport do you like?
Ce n'est pas mon type. This is not my type.
Tom est un chic type. Tom is a good sort.
C'est un type paresseux. He is a lazy fellow.
Tom est un type normal. Tom is a normal guy.
Quel type d'appareil photo Tom possède ? What kind of camera does Tom own?
Un haiku est un type de poème. A haiku is one type of poem.
Quel type de travail fais-tu ? What sort of work do you do?
Je ne supporte pas ce type. I can't abide that fellow.
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