death — English to French

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

What it means: death in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: death (89 602), deaths (25 560). By style: everyday 647 · literary 90 · biblical 347 · parliamentary 7 265 · legal and administrative 2 037 · UN documents 104 776.

décès

Used about 44 415 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 64 · parliamentary ≈ 1 816 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 061 · UN documents ≈ 41 474).

• No deaths were reported.

  Aucun décès n'a été déclaré.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4501750 #7839222

• We hope to halve the number of deaths by 2010.

  Nous espérons réduire de moitié le nombre des décès d’ici à 2010.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 808441

• death of a child: four days;

  décès d'un enfant: quatre jours;

  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 3024571

• Baby deaths per 1,000 new-born

  Décès de nourrissons pour 1 000 nouveaux-nés

  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 972663

• Ten years have gone by since his death.

  Dix ans se sont écoulés depuis son décès.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #286503 #499430

mort

Used about 33 829 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 477 · literary ≈ 66 · biblical ≈ 291 · parliamentary ≈ 4 087 · legal and administrative ≈ 530 · UN documents ≈ 28 377). Forms: mort, morts.

• Tom faked his death.

  Tom a simulé sa mort.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Maxence · checked, community translation · #1025822 #7698872

• Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee.

  Mort, je me sers de toi, mais je te hais.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24249

• “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

  O mort, où est ta victoire? O mort, où est ton aiguillon?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 15:55

• When there have been a billion deaths?

  Quand le bilan s'élèvera à un million de morts?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 878441

• Dispositions of property upon death other than agreements as to succession

  Dispositions à cause de mort autres que les pactes successoraux

  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 2654767

nombre

Used about 2 451 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 151 · legal and administrative ≈ 106 · UN documents ≈ 2 183).

• Many of the victims either burnt to death or suffocated.

  Bon nombre des victimes moururent brûlées ou asphyxiées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Arobaz and Arobaz · checked, community translation · #2121062 #2121063

• Amongst other things, you made reference to the lower number of deaths resulting from attacks, and the forthcoming elections.

  Vous avez mentionné, entre autres, la diminution du nombre de victimes d'attaques et les prochaines élections.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1326222

• Variable 320204: Number of employees in enterprise deaths

  Variable 320204: Nombre de salariés dans les entreprises ayant cessé leur activité

  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 5245247

• Annual number of maternal deaths divided by the annual number of live births, expressed per 100,000.

  Nombre annuel de parturientes décédées divisé par le nombre annuel de naissances vivantes, ramené à 100 000.

  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 11997756

• We should leave no stone unturned to achieve the Community target of reducing deaths on the roads to 25 000 by 2010.

  Tout doit être tenté pour réaliser notre objectif commun qui est de réduire le nombre de victimes à 25.000 d'ici 2010.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1815816

cas

Used about 1 264 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 151 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 · UN documents ≈ 1 091).

• Yemen: death penalty against juvenile offenders, notably the case of Muhammed Taher Thabet Samoum (

  Yémen: poursuites contre des mineurs délinquants, notamment le cas de Muhammed Taher Thabet Samoum (

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1504293

• Neonatal mortality includes an estimated 600000 infection-related deaths per year, a proportion of which may be addressed through maternal immunisation.

  On estime à 600000 par an les cas de mortalité néonatale liés à des maladies infectieuses, dont une partie pourrait être évitée grâce à la vaccination maternelle.

  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 3776114

• In addition, difficulties were increasing for patients requiring emergency care to leave Gaza, sometimes resulting in the death of the patients concerned.

  Les patients ayant besoin de soins médicaux urgents ont de plus en plus de difficultés à quitter Gaza et en meurent dans certains cas.

  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 19959906

• The rate of maternal mortality is among the highest in the world; that is also the case for deaths of infants and children.

  Le taux de mortalité maternelle compte parmi les plus élevés du globe. C’est également le cas de la mortalité néonatale et infantile.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 562057

peine

Used about 1 167 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 76 · UN documents ≈ 1 091).

• His colleague Lobsang Dhondup also faces a death penalty, without reprieve.

  Son assistant, Lobsang Dhondup, a été condamné à la peine capitale avec effet immédiat.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 406119

• Since 1 January 2007, approval of the death penalty was entrusted to the Supreme People ' s Court alone.

  Depuis le 1er janvier 2007, l ' approbation de la peine capitale est confiée à la seule Cour populaire suprême.

  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 20425134

More sentences

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

• Her death was a great shock to me.

  Ce fut un grand choc pour moi lorsqu'elle mourut.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · #309335 #133765

• Millions of people across the world are mourning the death of Nelson Mandela.

  Des millions de gens du monde entier pleurent la disparition de Nelson Mandela.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #2906579 #2909099

• Many officials starved to death.

  Beaucoup d'officiels moururent de faim.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Rovo · checked, community translation · #10913120 #12969582

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