contain — English to French

How English contain is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: contain in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: contain (50 898), contains (57 234). By style: everyday 196 · literary 16 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 6 410 · legal and administrative 20 975 · UN documents 80 526.

contient

Used about 48 023 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 92 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 537 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 672 · UN documents ≈ 32 714). Forms: contiennent, contient.

• Does it contain butter?

  Contient-elle du beurre ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6588601 #8679851

• The second contains the question of salary.

  Le deuxième contient la question du salaire.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18277

• “The Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.

  Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Tu boiras la coupe de ta sœur, Tu la boiras large et profonde; Elle te rendra un objet de risée et de moquerie; Elle contient beaucoup.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 23:32

• The report does contain many good ideas.

  Il contient certes de nombreuses bonnes idées.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 32223

• Columns 220-223 contain whole numbers

  Les colonnes 220-223 contiennent des nombres entiers.

  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 1204366

contenir

Used about 9 563 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 43 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 401 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 403 · UN documents ≈ 6 711).

• He could not contain his wrath.

  Il ne put contenir son courroux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #7831894 #13086707

• “’Tis a great deal of iron,” said the king, “to contain the light of a spirit.”

  --Voilà bien du fer, dit le roi, pour contenir la légèreté d'un esprit!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7446

• But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

  Mais quoi! Dieu habiterait-il véritablement sur la terre? Voici, les cieux et les cieux des cieux ne peuvent te contenir: combien moins cette maison que je t’ai bâtie!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 8:27

• What should a trade agreement like South Korea's really contain, then?

  Que devrait donc réellement contenir un accord commercial tel que celui sur le point d'être conclu avec la Corée du Sud?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1276063

• It may contain hydrocyanic acid.

  Il peut contenir de l'acide hydrocyanique.

  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 4341990

dispositions

Used about 3 489 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 134 · UN documents ≈ 3 355).

• As regards financial provisions, the White Paper does not contain any.

  Dispositions financières : le Livre blanc n'en prévoyait pas.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 190001

• 112. The Danish Criminal Code does contain a specific provision concerning the sexual exploitation of persons with mental disabilities.

  112. Le Code pénal danois ne comporte pas de dispositions spécifiques concernant l ' exploitation sexuelle des personnes handicapées.

  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 29549536

• In addition, this first phase agreement contains some provisions that clearly benefit the Community.

  En outre, ce premier accord renferme certaines dispositions avantageuses pour la Communauté.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 717951

• This publication will contain summaries of key provisions, relevant final clauses and status of the treaties being highlighted at Focus 2007.

  Ce document contiendra les résumés des dispositions principales, des clauses finales pertinentes et l ' état des traités retenus pour le Thème 2007.

  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 17602366

• 8. In order to eliminate all ambiguities, the arms trade treaty should contain a list of conventional arms subject to the treaty ' s provisions.

  Afin de lever toute ambiguïté, le traité sur le commerce des armes devrait comporter une liste des armes classiques auxquelles s ' appliqueraient ses dispositions.

  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 16360665

More sentences

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

• Does this dish contain meat?

  Y a-t-il de la viande dans ce plat ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and martin9 · checked, community translation · #12198857 #1424566

• Does it contain butter?

  Y a-t-il du beurre ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6588601 #8679853

• All dictionaries contain errors.

  Tous les dictionnaires comportent des erreurs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Vanilla and Malape · checked, community translation · #3317044 #3314824

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