Surface area measurements

Surface area measurements
Note that French has a comma where English has a decimal point.
1 sq in = 6,45 cm2 (centimètres carrés)*
1 sq ft = 929,03 cm2
1 sq yd = 0,84 m2 (mètres carrés)
1 acre = 40,47 ares = 0,4 ha (hectares)
1 sq ml = 2,59 km2 (kilomètres carrés)
* There are three ways of saying 6,45 cm2, and other measurements like it :
six virgule quarante-cinq centimètres carrés, or (less formally) six centimètres carrés virgule quarante-cinq, or six centimètres carrés quarante-cinq.
For more details on how to say numbers ⇒ Numbers.
how big is your garden?
= quelle est la superficie de votre jardin?
what’s its area?
= il a quelle superficie?
it’s 200 square metres
= il mesure 200 mètres carrés
its surface area is 200 square metres
= il mesure 200 mètres carrés de superficie
it’s 20 metres by 10 metres
= il mesure 20 mètres sur 10 mètres or il fait 20 mètres sur 10 mètres
sold by the square metre
= vendu au mètre carré
there are 10,000 square centimetres in a square metre
= il y a 10000 centimètres carrés dans un mètre carré
10,000 square centimetres make one square metre
= 10000 centimètres carrés font un mètre carré
A is the same area as B
= A a la même superficie que B
A and B are the same area
= A et B ont la même superficie
Note the French construction with de, coming after the noun it describes :
a 200-square-metre plot
= un terrain de 200 mètres carrés

Big English-French dictionary. 2003.

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