acts — English to French

How English acts is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: acts (151 411). By style: everyday 46 · literary 3 · biblical 70 · parliamentary 3 759 · legal and administrative 18 245 · UN documents 129 288.

actes

Used about 85 814 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 506 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 964 · UN documents ≈ 67 338).

• This is an opera in five acts.

  C'est un opéra en cinq actes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #60087 #1054996

• So they were roaming about the world seeking and searching for this beauty, and, after having successively rejected the Queen of Golconda, the Princess of Trebizonde, the daughter of the Grand Khan of Tartary, etc., Labor and Clergy, Nobility and Merchandise, had come to rest upon the marble table of the Palais de Justice, and to utter, in the presence of the honest audience, as many sentences and maxims as could then be dispensed at the Faculty of Arts, at examinations, sophisms, determinances, figures, and acts, where the masters took their degrees.

  Ils allaient donc par le monde cherchant et quêtant cette beauté, et après avoir successivement rejeté la reine de Golconde, la princesse de Trébizonde, la fille du Grand-Khan de Tartarie, etc., etc., Labour et Clergé, Noblesse et Marchandise étaient venus se reposer sur la table de marbre du Palais de Justice, en débitant devant l'honnête auditoire autant de sentences et de maximes qu'on en pouvait alors dépenser à la Faculté des arts aux examens, sophismes, déterminances, figures et actes où les maîtres prenaient leurs bonnets de licence.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 349

• Financial supervision (signing of acts)

  Surveillance financière (signature d'actes)

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1443594

• The following acts are repealed as from 21 April 2021:

  Les actes ci-après sont abrogés à compter du 21 avril 2021:

  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 3966370

• :: Failure to report such acts;

  :: Le manquement à l ' obligation de dénoncer de tels actes;

  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 25054991

actions

Used about 2 819 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 47 · parliamentary ≈ 78 · UN documents ≈ 2 694).

• Civilization is the basis of the acts of colonization and capitalism.

  La civilisation est à la base des actions de colonisation et de capitalisme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Aiji · checked, community translation · #12200619 #2272198

• and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

  ses premières et ses dernières actions, cela est écrit dans le livre des rois d’Israël et de Juda.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 35:27

• Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, over the last decade, Europe has experienced a wave of terrorist acts.

  Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs les députés, au cours des dernières décennies, l'Europe a connu une vague d'actions terroristes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1677706

• Those acts of the IDF were immoral and illegal and contravened international humanitarian law, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention and relevant United Nations resolutions.

  Ces actions des FDI sont immorales et illicites et contreviennent aux dispositions du droit international humanitaire, en particulier la quatrième Convention de Genève et les résolutions pertinentes des Nations Unies.

  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 13262465

• Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the LORD’s law,

  Le reste des actions de Josias, et ses œuvres de piété, telles que les prescrit la loi de l’Éternel,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 35:26

More sentences

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

• He acts like a tough guy.

  Il joue au dur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2266029 #9749486

• In many plays, the villain acts as a foil to the hero.

  Dans de nombreuses pièces, le méchant sert de faire-valoir au héros.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #12833351 #12833352

• Nothing acts as a better antidote for romance than young men and women doing geometry together at eight o'clock every morning.

  Rien ne fait l'effet de meilleur antidote à l'amour que de jeunes hommes et femmes faisant ensemble de la géométrie à huit heures chaque matin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1072510 #1072866

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