Grammatical class

Noun

tiers

a third (one of three equal parts)

Details

Syllables

tiers

Phonetics

tjɛʁ

Grammatical class

Noun

Freq. (books)

3831

Freq. (movies)

5485

Freq. (news)

1461

Sentences

Un tiers de neuf est trois.

One third of nine is three.

A1

Un tiers est inférieur à un demi.

A third is less than a half.

A1

Un tiers des prisonniers s'est échappé.

A third of the prisoners have escaped.

A1

La population du pays a chuté d'un tiers.

The population of the country dropped by a third.

A1

Nous passons un tiers de nos vies à dormir.

We spend a third of our lives sleeping.

A2

Un tiers de la surface de la Terre est désert.

One third of the earth's surface is desert.

A2

Un tiers des amis avec lesquels j'ai grandi sont morts.

One third of the friends I grew up with are dead.

B1

Plus du tiers de la population mondiale vit près d'une côte.

More than a third of the world population lives near a coast.

B1

Les deux tiers des étudiants de cette école sont des garçons.

Two-thirds of the students of this school are boys.

B1

Deux tiers des salariés de cette entreprise sont des ingénieurs.

Two thirds of the employees of this company are engineers.

B1

Un tiers des habitants de ce pays est analphabète.

A third of this country's inhabitants is illiterate.

B2

Presque un tiers des victimes de la fusillade furent des adolescents.

Almost a third of the gunshot victims were teenagers.

B2