concrete — English to French

How English concrete is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: concrete in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: concrete (54 918), concretes (198). By style: everyday 20 · literary 3 · parliamentary 4 725 · legal and administrative 2 674 · UN documents 47 694.

concrètes

Used about 36 348 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 2 461 · legal and administrative ≈ 585 · UN documents ≈ 33 296). Forms: concrets, concrètes.

• Our plans are not yet concrete.

  Nos projets ne sont pas encore concrets.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #23424 #4860321

• We expect to see concrete steps forward.

  Nous attendons de voir des avancées concrètes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1342567

• Terpenic essential oils of lemon, incl. concretes and absolutes

  Huiles essentielles de citron, non déterpénées, y compris celles dites “concrètes” ou “absolues”

  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 223450

• A more concrete proposal was needed.

  Il convenait de formuler des propositions plus concrètes.

  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 2238338

• Tom said he didn't have any concrete plans.

  Tom a dit qu'il n'avait pas de plans concrets.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and filbert · checked, community translation · #6527717 #10791472

béton

Used about 3 407 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 696 · UN documents ≈ 2 700). Forms: béton, bétons.

• Is this wall made of concrete?

  Ce mur est-il en béton ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and felix63 · checked, community translation · #12130303 #8430579

• The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, having no longer an underpinning, gave way.

  L'eau s'infiltrait dans de certains terrains sous-jacents, particulièrement friables; le radier, qu'il fût de pavé, comme dans les anciens égouts, ou de chaux hydraulique sur béton, comme dans les nouvelles galeries, n'ayant plus de point d'appui, pliait.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27905

• Manufacture of ready-mixed concrete

  Fabrication de béton prêt à l'emploi

  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 1069627

• The cells were equipped with concrete beds without mattresses.

  Elles étaient équipées de lits de béton sans matelas.

  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 20436470

• The walls are reinforced concrete.

  Les murs sont en béton armé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #10794780 #8654337

mortiers

Used about 1 058 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 058).

• Non-refractory mortars and concretes

  Mortiers et bétons, non réfractaires

  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 4390450

• Non-refractory mortars and concretes:

  Mortiers et bétons, non réfractaires:

  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 171174

• Prepared additives for cements, mortars or concretes

  Additifs préparés pour ciments, mortiers ou bétons

  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 2994793

• Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions n.e.c.

  Ciments, mortiers, bétons et compositions similaires réfractaires n.c.a.

  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 5027028

• Non-refractory mortars and concretes (excl. concrete ready to pour)

  Mortiers et bétons, non réfractaires (à l'exclusion du béton prêt à la coulée)

  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 223733

mesures

Used about 998 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 98 · UN documents ≈ 900).

• It would be a small but concrete step to build confidence, and I call on them to do so.

  Ce serait un petit pas, mais un pas concret vers la restauration de la confiance, et j'invite la Russie à prendre des mesures en ce sens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1243636

• Thirdly, consideration of the report should therefore entail an in-depth analysis of its contents. As a result of this, appropriate concrete action should be taken on the report.

  Troisièmement, l ' examen du rapport doit donc comprendre une analyse approfondie de son contenu, en conséquence de quoi on prendra les mesures appropriées concernant le rapport.

  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 2529854

ciments

Used about 28 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 28).

• Precast concrete products based on hydraulic binders or alternative cements: EN 1338, EN 1339, EN 1340 or EN 13748.

  produits en béton préfabriqué à base de liants hydrauliques ou de ciments alternatifs: EN 1338, EN 1339, EN 1340 ou EN 13748.

  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 5346960

More sentences

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

• What we don't have is a concrete example.

  Ce dont nous ne disposons pas, c'est d'un exemple concret.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by xrchz and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1360614 #1385630

• Benevolence is abstract, a good deed is concrete.

  La bienveillance est abstraite, une bonne action est concrète.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sam_m and kanochan · checked, community translation · #1559486 #2808400

• The mission statement sounds a bit amorphous to me. Can't we make it more concrete?

  L'énoncé de la mission me semble un peu informe. Ne pouvons-nous pas la rendre plus concrète ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9040780 #9060503

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