Elamur Translatecontrary — English to French
How English contrary is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.
What it means: contrary in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: contrary (39 020). By style: everyday 40 · literary 6 · biblical 23 · parliamentary 5 044 · legal and administrative 4 844 · UN documents 29 063.
contraire
Used about 25 438 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 4 098 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 734 · UN documents ≈ 17 559). Forms: contraire, contrairement.
It is contrary to reason.
C'est contraire à la raison.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orcrist and Scott · checked, community translation · #42036 #549794“Quite possible, on the contrary,” returned Mr. Fogg.
--Très possible, au contraire, répondit Mr. Fogg.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 142saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
en disant: Cet homme excite les gens à servir Dieu d’une manière contraire à la loi.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 18:13On the contrary, it diminishes them.
Au contraire, il les réduit.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 469731Proof to the contrary may include registration.
La preuve du contraire peut comprendre l'enregistrement.
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 251808
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
"I think you like your job." "On the contrary, I hate it."
« J'imagine que votre travail vous plaît. » « Pas du tout, je le déteste. »
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #73973 #126660The winds blow contrary to what ships wish.
Le vent ne souffle pas au gré des navires.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and samir_t · checked, community translation · #8721726 #8721640As for me, on the contrary, I do not consider Japanese a difficult language.
Moi, par contre, je ne trouve pas que le japonais soit une langue difficile.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ooneykcall and Aiji · checked, community translation · #10728379 #2838910
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