debt — English to French

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

What it means: debt in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: debt (70 099), debts (7 437). By style: everyday 124 · literary 6 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 3 587 · legal and administrative 14 509 · UN documents 59 302.

dette

Used about 54 763 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 95 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 802 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 615 · UN documents ≈ 43 241). Forms: dette, dettes.

• I owe him a debt.

  J'ai une dette envers lui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #249978 #3626713

• But here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go to her.

  Mais voici: je payerai vos dettes, je ferai venir votre enfant, ou vous irez la rejoindre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4434

• The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.

  Ému de compassion, le maître de ce serviteur le laissa aller, et lui remit la dette.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:27

• The debts are interrelated with one another.

  Ces dettes sont indissolublement liées.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1171680

• Maximum Net Debt B

  Dette Nette maximale B

  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 3875218

créances

Used about 8 280 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 149 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 569 · UN documents ≈ 5 560).

• That company is on the rocks because of bad debts.

  Cette entreprise est au bord du gouffre à cause de créances irrécouvrables.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zumley and lbdx · checked, community translation · #49048 #13401304

• The level of success in recovering unpaid debts is remarkably low.

  par écrit. - Le degré de succès du recouvrement des créances impayées est remarquablement faible.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1549420

• Capital depreciation on debts

  Moins value sur créances

  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 1692036

• Provisions for doubtful debts

  Provision pour créances douteuses

  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 28955966

• One final point that seems particularly important to me is the possibility of writing off debt of not less than EUR 5 000.

  Un dernier point que j'estime particulièrement important concerne la possibilité d'amortir les créances égales ou supérieures à 5 000 euros.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1489519

More sentences

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

• Italy and France are in a lot of debt.

  L'Italie et la France sont très endettées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Blabla · checked, community translation · #11790765 #3088827

• I'm up to my ears in debt.

  Je suis endetté jusqu'au cou.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #7860593 #1865836

• You're thirty thousand dollars in debt.

  Tu es endettée de trente mille dollars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2640920 #7804063

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