disaster — English to French

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

What it means: disaster in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: disaster (63 319), disasters (35 884). By style: everyday 60 · literary 2 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 6 805 · legal and administrative 2 164 · UN documents 90 153.

catastrophe

Used about 81 548 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 5 742 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 600 · UN documents ≈ 74 188). Forms: catastrophe, catastrophes.

• It was an utter disaster.

  Ce fut une catastrophe absolue.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5041912 #12005474

• It was a disaster in every way.

  C'est une catastrophe sur toute la ligne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2032432

• Responding to disasters within the Union

  Réaction aux catastrophes dans l'Union

  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 2837534

• II. Natural and environmental disasters

  II. Catastrophes naturelles et écologiques

  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 6268831

• You're racing toward disaster.

  Tu cours à la catastrophe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and RCendre · checked, community translation · #11953795 #11944723

naturelles

Used about 249 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 248).

• Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.

  Les documents relatifs à cette période sont particulièrement rares, peut-être à cause d'une longue série de désastres naturelles qui ont frappé la capitale.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and Scott · checked, community translation · #65024 #413383

• Section 8 — Aid to make good the damage caused by certain natural disasters

  Section 8 — Aides destinées à remédier aux dommages causés par certaines calamités naturelles

  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 3335740

• Aid to make good the damage caused by natural disasters and exceptional occurrences

  Aides destinées à remédier aux dommages causés par des calamités naturelles ou des événements extraordinaires

  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 4107733

• The Italian authorities did not quantify the direct material damage caused by the natural disasters.

  Les autorités italiennes n’ont pas quantifié les dommages matériels directs causés par les calamités naturelles susmentionnées.

  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 548117

• The Italian legislation identifies areas affected by natural disasters of three kinds:

  Les divers actes juridiques italiens sur lesquels les mesures se fondent répertorient les zones touchées selon trois types de calamités naturelles:

  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 3797531

More sentences

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

• This plan, while looking great on paper, turned out to be a disaster.

  Ce plan, qui avait l'air bien sur le papier, se révéla être un désastre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by corvard and Lulantis · checked, community translation · #3470578 #3471100

• It's an ecological disaster.

  C'est un désastre écologique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1731525 #1732601

• The slightest mistake may lead to a fatal disaster.

  La plus petite erreur peut mener à un accident fatal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scott · checked, community translation · #29128 #1330323

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