civilian — English to French

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

What it means: civilian in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: civilian (86 490), civilians (48 716). By style: everyday 11 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 601 · legal and administrative 2 806 · UN documents 129 787.

civils

Used about 118 113 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 2 493 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 046 · UN documents ≈ 113 564). Forms: civil, civile, civiles, civils.

• Some civilians were killed.

  Des civils ont été tués.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #804374 #4237041

• Israeli civilians and children are being killed.

  Des civils et des enfants israéliens meurent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 190180

• Civilian oversight of security forces

  Contrôle civil des forces de sécurité

  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 1356695

• Role of the civilian police

  Rôle de la police 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 8323410

• Some civilians were killed.

  Quelques civils ont été tués.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #804374 #12886485

forces

Used about 1 352 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 352).

• Military offensives by Government forces, clashes among rebel factions and intertribal clashes continued to cause mass displacements of civilians in Darfur.

  Military offensives by Government forces, clashes among rebel factions and intertribal clashes continued to cause mass displacements of civilians in Darfur.

  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 22171262

population

Used about 670 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27 · legal and administrative ≈ 643).

• Low level military exercise flights must be forbidden where there is a danger to civilians.

  Les vols d'exercice militaires à basse altitude doivent être interdits en cas de risque pour la population.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1812019

• Addounia TV has incited violence against the civilian population in Syria.

  Addounia TV a incité à la violence contre la population civile en Syrie.

  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 2795265

• Senior decision-maker in the regime on repression of civilian population.

  Haut responsable du régime responsable de la répression à l'encontre de la population civile.

  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 2915236

• Involved in violence against the civilian population as part of the Shabiha militia.

  Impliqué dans les violences contre la population civile en tant que membre de la milice Shabiha.

  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 4173786

• Head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence; involved in violence against the civilian population.

  Chef du service de renseignement de l'armée de l'air syrienne; impliqué dans la répression contre la population civile.

  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 2785957

attaques

Used about 27 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27).

• However, on page 31, the report mentions the impact on civilians of rocket and mortar attacks by Palestinian armed groups on southern Israel.

  Or, à la page 31, l'auteur mentionne l'impact des attaques au lance-roquettes et au mortier orchestrées par des groupes armés palestiniens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1346747

More sentences

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

• It is well to disguise one’s self as a civilian from time to time.”

  Cela vaut bien qu'on se déguise en pékin de temps en temps.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15078

• Terrorism represents one of the greatest challenges our societies face and is unacceptable, because of the indiscriminate violence that characterises it, and which particularly affects the civilian population.

  Le terrorisme constitue un des défis les plus importants pour nos sociétés, la violence aveugle qui le caractérise et qui touche les populations est intolérable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 91909

• In 1993 Burundi's Hutu President was assassinated and within a month over 100,000 civilians were killed.

  En 1993, le président du Burundi d' origine hutue a été assassiné, et en un mois, plus de 100 000 personnes ont été massacrées.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 219009

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