back — English to French

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

What it means: back in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: back (72 151), backs (1 671). By style: everyday 3 288 · literary 194 · biblical 294 · parliamentary 15 184 · legal and administrative 6 875 · UN documents 47 987.

dos

Used about 10 142 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 809 · literary ≈ 40 · biblical ≈ 71 · parliamentary ≈ 3 005 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 217 · UN documents ≈ 4 999).

• Don't talk about people behind their backs.

  Ne parle pas des gens derrière leurs dos.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #240177 #8687

• And he straightened up his crooked back.

  Et il redressa son dos voûté.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31626

• Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

  Les châtiments sont prêts pour les moqueurs, Et les coups pour le dos des insensés.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 19:29

• We cannot turn our backs on Belarus.

  Nous ne pouvons tourner le dos au Belarus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1200531

• Back to back distance (AR)

  Distance dos à dos (AR)

  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 2909979

More sentences

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

• He didn't come back in the end.

  Finalement il n'est pas revenu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #291968 #131232

• Did you take him back to your apartment?

  L'avez-vous ramené à votre appartement ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1943944 #1945376

• I'd like to know when you plan to give me back the scissors I lent you.

  J'aimerais savoir quand tu as l'intention de me rendre les ciseaux que je t'ai prêtés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #953773 #955725

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