acid — English to French

How English acid is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: acid in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: acid (27 630), acids (4 546). By style: everyday 25 · literary 1 · parliamentary 224 · legal and administrative 25 311 · UN documents 6 615.

acide

Used about 30 614 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 156 · legal and administrative ≈ 24 784 · UN documents ≈ 5 650). Forms: acide, acides.

• Acid attacks metal.

  L'acide attaque le métal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bluepie88 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #662611 #8225

• His black frock-coat, streaked with stains of acids and sirups, was much too wide for his lean little person, and looked like a shabby old cassock; and the man spoke with a strong Polish accent which gave the childlike character to his thin voice, the lisping note and intonations of a young thing learning to speak.

  Sa redingote noire, tigrée de taches d'acides et de sirops, beaucoup trop vaste pour son corps maigre et petit, avait un aspect d'antique soutane; et l'homme parlait avec un fort accent polonais qui donnait à sa voix fluette quelque chose d'enfantin, un zézaiement et des intonations de jeune être qui commence à prononcer.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 461

• Folic acid is an example.

  Le cas de l'acide folique en illustre bien l'utilité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 155631

• Esters of acetic acid

  Esters de l'acide acétique

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3692116

• D Acids and bases

  D Les acides et les bases

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29794182

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• The oceans are turning acid.

  Les océans s'acidifient.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1611122 #1612477

• I have acid reflux.

  J'ai des remontées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AmarMecheri and Igider · checked, community translation · #12732760 #11099376

• The elections will be the acid test.

  Les élections représenteront la mise à l'épreuve.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1576704

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