cover — English to French

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

What it means: cover in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cover (88 917), covers (32 379). By style: everyday 158 · literary 12 · biblical 106 · parliamentary 5 512 · legal and administrative 31 454 · UN documents 84 054.

couvrir

Used about 43 360 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 66 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 57 · parliamentary ≈ 2 010 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 710 · UN documents ≈ 24 516). Forms: couverture, couvre, couvrir.

• He refuses to cover himself.

  Il refuse de se couvrir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Serg_K1ng and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · #12240802 #12011361

• He was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his coat to cover her.

  Il ne sentait même pas qu'il avait très froid, ayant quitté sa redingote pour l'en couvrir.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10000

• Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

  La haine excite des querelles, Mais l’amour couvre toutes les fautes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 10:12

• The document covers many areas.

  Le document couvre plusieurs domaines.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1350766

• Such expenditure may cover, inter alia:

  Ces dépenses peuvent couvrir notamment:

  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 1227605

dépenses

Used about 4 705 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 328 · UN documents ≈ 4 378).

• Accordingly, it is appropriate to allocate a Community financial contribution to cover the expenditure of that programme for 2008 by Portugal.

  Il convient dès lors d’accorder une participation financière de la Communauté aux dépenses liées à ce programme du Portugal pour 2008.

  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 1346210

• This covers electricity, water and fuel oil at the Palais and its annexes.

  Il s’agit des dépenses d’eau et d’électricité et de l’achat de fioul pour le chauffage du Palais et de ses dépendances.

  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 5791750

• Payments are based on claims processed during the year to cover field staff medical costs.

  Les paiements correspondent aux demandes de remboursement traités dans l ' année concernant les dépenses de santé des fonctionnaires en poste hors siège.

  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 11619078

• Table B-6 also covers expenditures on operational activities of the United Nations system in the least developed countries.

  Le tableau B-6 contient des données sur les dépenses au titre des activités opérationnelles du système des Nations Unies dans les pays les moins avancés.

  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 10608820

• 103. The provision of $25,399,600 would cover salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for the 132 continuing posts and 3 proposed new posts.

  Le montant prévu (25 399 600 dollars) représente les traitements, les dépenses communes de personnel et les contributions du personnel relatifs à 132 postes existants et 3 nouveaux postes.

  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 19751900

More sentences

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

• Be sure to cover your tracks.

  Assure-toi d'effacer tes traces.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #9737544 #14049788

• Take cover from the rain.

  Mets-toi à l'abri de la pluie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Blabla · checked, community translation · #11922149 #6061648

• Cover your eye like this please.

  Couvrez vos yeux comme ça, s'il vous plaît.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9853877 #9869951

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