against — English to French

How English against 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: against (680 042), againsts (3). By style: everyday 778 · literary 130 · biblical 1 178 · parliamentary 45 481 · legal and administrative 30 395 · UN documents 602 083.

contre

Used about 486 468 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 486 · literary ≈ 62 · biblical ≈ 785 · parliamentary ≈ 29 702 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 413 · UN documents ≈ 439 019).

• Are you against them?

  Es-tu contre eux ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11157550 #11157574

• Could I stand against the two?

  Résister seul contre deux?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3316

• “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

  Tu ne porteras point de faux témoignage contre ton prochain.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 5:20

• I shall vote against this report.

  Je voterai contre ce rapport.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 771978

• Involved in violence against demonstrators.

  Implication dans la violence contre les manifestants.

  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 3491263

encontre

Used about 21 743 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 3 713 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 471 · UN documents ≈ 12 543).

• It's against my morals.

  Ça va à l'encontre de mes valeurs morales.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2235458 #2264097

• A variety of grudges against the EU have been heard from certain quarters.

  Divers reproches à l’encontre de l’UE ont été entendus ici et là.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 686453

• Formal objections against European Assessment Documents

  Objection formelle à l’encontre de documents d’évaluation européens

  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 2360007

• (a) To ensure that offences involving violence against children are, by law, punishable by appropriate penalties that take into account their grave nature;

  a) De veiller à ce que les actes de violence à l ' encontre des enfants soient passibles de sanctions légales appropriées qui tiennent compte de leur gravité;

  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 29875517

• There is growing violence against journalists and civil society activists.

  Il y a de plus en plus de violences perpétrées à l'encontre des journalistes et des militants de la société civile.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1324562

More sentences

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

• I want to see what I'm up against.

  Je veux voir à quoi je suis confronté.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2016651 #2470528

• I am not taking legal action against their children.

  Je n'attaque pas leurs enfants en justice.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Amastan · checked, community translation · #13816244 #1925032

• It goes against accepted standards of behavior.

  C’est contraire aux bonnes mœurs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · #13844610 #13844609

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