delay — English to French

How English delay is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: delay in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: delay (48 745), delays (22 322). By style: everyday 34 · literary 8 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 5 118 · legal and administrative 10 007 · UN documents 55 892.

retards

Used about 38 481 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 3 092 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 254 · UN documents ≈ 29 110). Forms: retard, retards.

• I apologize for the delay.

  Je m'excuse pour le retard.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shishir and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1392467 #5599870

• "But are you not subject to considerable delays?"

  —Mais, enfin, vous n'êtes pas sujet à éprouver des retards considérables?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 797

• I am sorry for the long delay.

  Je vous présente mes excuses pour ce long retard.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 591476

• Delays in the follow up of pre-debts

  Retards dans le suivi des prédettes

  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 3808775

• (b) Delays in the conduct of trials

  b) Retards dans le déroulement des procès

  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 4535349

délai

Used about 5 006 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 213 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 876 · UN documents ≈ 2 911).

• What is the delay?

  Quel en est le délai ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1886728 #4548682

• I particularly welcome the request that we delay for three months.

  Je soutiens en particulier la demande de délai supplémentaire de trois mois.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 832593

• Required Default Delay Time to Sleep, tSLEEP_REQ

  Délai par défaut requis pour le passage en mode “veille”, tSLEEP_REQ

  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 3122577

• Urges the State party to carry out such investigations without delay.

  Exhortation de l ' État partie à entreprendre sans délai les enquêtes nécessaires.

  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 21766837

• What's causing the delay?

  Qu'est-ce qui cause le délai ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1886705 #2061265

sans

Used about 4 123 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 373 · legal and administrative ≈ 834 · UN documents ≈ 2 911).

• Do it without delay.

  Faites-le sans attendre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #9281409 #11619590

• We had to cross a few narrow fiords, and at last quite a wide gulf; the tide, then high, allowed us to pass over without delay, and to reach the hamlet of Alftanes, one mile beyond.

  Il fallut bientôt traverser plusieurs petits fjörds sans importance, et enfin un véritable golfe; la marée, étale alors, nous permit de passer sans attendre et de gagner le hameau d'Alftanes, situé un mille au delà.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1171

• When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought.

  Ils sont donc venus ici, et, sans différer, je m’assis le lendemain sur mon tribunal, et je donnai l’ordre qu’on amenât cet homme.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 25:17

• Moreover, I will resume voting time without delay.

  Je reprends d’ailleurs le cours du vote sans attendre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 718340

• They shall notify the Commission and ESMA without delay of any subsequent amendments thereto.

  Ils notifient également sans tarder à la Commission et à l’AEMF toute modification ultérieure de celles-ci.

  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 5356300

More sentences

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

• I'm sorry for the delay in responding.

  Je suis désolé pour la réponse tardive.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #320367 #135004

• We can't delay this any longer.

  Nous ne pouvons plus retarder cela.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3329445 #13388580

• Don't delay today's work until tomorrow.

  Ne remets pas à demain ce que tu peux faire aujourd'hui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alanood and LowMemory · checked, community translation · #1329460 #14250

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