destruction — English to French

How English destruction is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: destruction in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: destruction (65 441), destructions (61). By style: everyday 19 · literary 1 · biblical 101 · parliamentary 2 295 · legal and administrative 2 814 · UN documents 60 272.

destruction

Used about 59 202 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 1 639 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 286 · UN documents ≈ 55 249). Forms: destruction, destructions.

• The world is on the edge of destruction.

  Le monde est au bord de la destruction.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7793684 #8571321

• Destruction and misery are in their ways.

  La destruction et le malheur sont sur leur route;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:16

• Destruction of the fine fabric of society, of its solidarity.

  Destruction du délicat tissu social, de sa solidarité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1474557

• Amount exported for destruction

  Quantité exportée en vue de la destruction

  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 3402693

• and on Their Destruction

  et sur leur destruction

  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 8251930

More sentences

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

• People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

  Les privilégiés prendront toujours le risque de courir à leur propre perte plutôt que de renoncer à une partie matérielle de leur privilège.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6287161 #8247079

• The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

  Les privilégiés ont régulièrement cherché par avidité à provoquer leur propre perte.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6287170 #7957231

• A hurricane can wreak destruction everywhere it goes.

  Un ouragan peut faire des ravages partout où il passe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6993588 #8571899

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