corruption — English to French

How English corruption is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: corruption in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: corruption (57 566), corruptions (18). By style: everyday 21 · literary 2 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 2 986 · legal and administrative 1 455 · UN documents 53 111.

corruption

Used about 50 131 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 924 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 425 · UN documents ≈ 45 757).

• Corruption was a problem.

  La corruption était un problème.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4494289 #6210383

• There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.

  Il y a corruption sous les tyrans illustres, mais la peste morale est plus hideuse encore sous les tyrans infâmes.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22929

• For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

  Car tu ne livreras pas mon âme au séjour des morts, Tu ne permettras pas que ton bien-aimé voie la corruption.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 16:10

• The facts prove that corruption has taken place.

  Les faits prouvent qu'il y a eu corruption.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1460097

• active and passive corruption;

  corruption active et passive;

  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 5082064

fraude

Used about 62 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 62).

• The Commission still believes that all corruption cases are serious and should be liable to sanctions.

  La Commission est néanmoins d'avis que tous les cas de fraude sont graves et doivent être passibles de sanctions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1644666

More sentences

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

• A man of strong will is not subject to corruption.

  Un homme de volonté ne peut être corrompu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yepthatscool and Scott · checked, community translation · #28211 #390658

• Power brings corruption.

  Le pouvoir corrompt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #806677 #1187112

• According to the "Ahl al-Haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all that we name generations and corruptions, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.

  Selon les Ehl Eltahik, l'univers se compose d'une seule substance, et tout ce qu'on appelle générations et corruptions, mort et vie, n'est qu'une certaine combinaison ou dissolution de modes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #534470 #534478

Grammar

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