arms — English to French

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

What it means: arms in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: arms (112 199). By style: everyday 173 · literary 107 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 3 531 · legal and administrative 3 465 · UN documents 104 901.

armes

Used about 55 978 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 2 795 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 888 · UN documents ≈ 50 265). Forms: armements, armes.

• Arms export was prohibited.

  L'export d'armes était interdit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Serhiy and marisa2404 · checked, community translation · #785371 #1005560

• “To arms!” shouted the sergeant.

  --Aux armes! cria le sergent.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25310

• The concept of an arms-trade treaty was born.

  L'idée d'un traité sur le commerce des armes est alors née.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 944440

• arms or parts thereof (Chapter 93);

  les armes et leurs parties (chapitre 93);

  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 4063989

• C. Documented arms and ammunition

  C. Armes et munitions répertoriées

  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 25034590

légères

Used about 39 338 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 39 338).

• 1. Geneva Forum meetings on small arms

  1. Forum de Genève : réunions sur les armes légères

  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 18038348

• Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

  illicite des armes légères sous tous ses aspects

  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 18401473

• The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in

  Le commerce illicite des armes légères et de petit calibre

  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 25353185

• D. Combating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons

  D. Lutte contre la prolifération des armes légères

  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 14165395

• Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

  sur le commerce illicite des armes légères sous tous ses aspects

  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 7818068

More sentences

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

• John was standing alone with his arms folded.

  John se tenait seul debout avec les bras croisés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Nennella · checked, community translation · #52508 #11830

• The coat of arms of Russia is very beautiful.

  Les armoiries de la Russie sont très belles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #8903802 #8900370

• She is holding her baby in her arms.

  Elle tient son bébé dans ses bras.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #315410 #134503

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