challenge — English to French

How English challenge is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: challenge in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: challenge (60 159), challenges (149 988). By style: everyday 99 · literary 1 · parliamentary 13 116 · legal and administrative 3 733 · UN documents 193 198.

défi

Used about 98 201 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 81 · parliamentary ≈ 11 613 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 983 · UN documents ≈ 84 524). Forms: défi, défis.

• I like a challenge.

  J'aime le défi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2377436 #2384039

• It is a challenge that is double-sided.

  Ce défi est à double tranchant.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 907051

• Stabilisation is a common challenge facing the EU and Egypt.

  La stabilisation constitue un défi commun pour l'Union européenne et l'Égypte.

  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 284838

• F. MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY

  F. Relever le défi de l ' énergie nucléaire civile

  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 22345799

• I love challenges.

  J'aime les défis.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5860585 #1215258

nouveaux

Used about 6 037 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 6 037).

• (d) New challenges were emerging.

  d) De nouveaux problèmes apparaissaient.

  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 17138606

• The challenge now is to make those two new bodies truly effective.

  La difficulté, à présent, consiste à s ' assurer que ces deux nouveaux organes sont véritablement efficaces.

  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 14795876

• The challenge for UNECE countries, and particularly countries in transition, is to develop new engines of growth and to diversify economic activities.

  Les pays de la CEE, en particulier ceux qui sont en transition, doivent trouver de nouveaux moteurs de croissance et diversifier leurs activités économiques.

  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 14003968

face

Used about 4 025 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 025).

• 4.1 United Nations coordinated response to the food crisis challenge in Africa

  Réponse coordonnée des Nations Unies face à la crise alimentaire en Afrique

  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 21043091

• Climate neutral cities: how to make United Nations Economic Commission for Europe cities less carbon intensive and more resilient to climatic challenges

  Villes climatiquement neutres: comment faire diminuer l ' intensité de carbone des villes de la Commission économique pour l ' Europe et les rendre plus résilientes face aux problèmes climatiques

  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 22729917

relever

Used about 1 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1).

• I want to face challenges, fall, and rise again stronger.

  Je veux faire face aux épreuves, tomber et me relever plus fort.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Aghanim · checked, community translation · #13707391 #13707389

More sentences

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

• I don't mean to challenge your theory.

  Je ne veux pas disputer ta théorie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #16865 #474149

• Scientists challenge existing ideas.

  Les scientifiques remettent en cause les idées existantes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11569493 #11838211

• I didn't mean to challenge your authority.

  Je ne voulais pas remettre en cause votre autorité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3730229 #4142265

Grammar

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