civilians — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: civilians (48 716). By style: everyday 7 · parliamentary 1 002 · legal and administrative 439 · UN documents 47 268.

civils

Used about 38 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 835 · legal and administrative ≈ 402 · UN documents ≈ 37 421).

• 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

• Involved in repressive actions against civilians.

  Participe à la répression menée contre des civils.

  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 2656392

• Canadian efforts to protect civilians

  Efforts déployés par le Canada pour protéger les civils

  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 14624741

• 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

victimes

Used about 1 990 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 21 · UN documents ≈ 1 970).

• In the time of the First World War just 10% of the war’s casualties were civilians.

  À l’époque de la Première guerre mondiale, seuls 10% des victimes de guerre étaient civiles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 556219

• Five people were injured, and all the victims were civilians.

  Cinq personnes ont été blessées, toutes les victimes étaient civiles.

  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 15984421

• Statement on the killing of civilians in Burundi issued on 3 September 1999 by the Presidency of the European Union

  Déclaration de la présidence de l ' Union européenne sur les récentes victimes civiles au Burundi, publiée le 3 septembre 1999

  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 5698183

forces

Used about 985 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 985).

• 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

attaques

Used about 42 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42).

• 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.

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• The savage Serbian attacks on civilians are beyond doubt, as are the human rights violations and Belgrade's efforts to muzzle the press.

  Les attaques sauvages serbes contre les populations civiles, la violation des droits de l'homme, les efforts de Belgrade pour museler la presse ne font aucun doute.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1904295

More sentences

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

• 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

• More civilians have died in Darfur than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

  Il y a eu davantage de pertes civiles au Darfour qu’en Iraq et en Afghanistan réunis.

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• The number of extremist groups is increasing, and they are threatening the lives of civilians.

  Les groupes extrémistes se multiplient et menacent la vie des populations civiles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1478097

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