down — English to French

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

What it means: down in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: down (184 366), downs (597). By style: everyday 2 348 · literary 221 · biblical 1 000 · parliamentary 17 430 · legal and administrative 101 065 · UN documents 62 899.

réductions

Used about 29 337 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 27 372 · UN documents ≈ 1 966).

• Write-offs/write-downs

  Abandons/réductions de 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 3229833

• 4. World Bank buy-downs

  4. Réductions de dettes par la Banque mondiale

  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 23584428

• Representatives from the European Community agreed to show flexibility in the timing and percentage reduction of step-downs, particularly the first and the last.

  Les représentants de la Communauté européenne ont convenu d ' assouplir le calendrier et les pourcentages fixés pour les réductions par paliers, notamment pour les première et dernière réductions.

  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 14475182

• Representatives from the European Community agreed to show flexibility in the timing and percentage reduction of step-downs, particularly the first and the last.

  Les représentants de la Communauté européenne ont convenu d ' assouplir le calendrier et les pourcentages fixés pour les réductions par palliers, notamment pour les première et dernière réductions.

  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 12884178

• Write-offs/write-downs of loans

  Abandons/réductions de 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 1788076

hauts

Used about 10 043 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 405 · parliamentary ≈ 3 087 · UN documents ≈ 6 552).

• I've had my ups and downs.

  J'ai eu des hauts et des bas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8559716 #13270565

• From 1996 until today, the TENs have undoubtedly had their ups and downs.

  Depuis 1996 jusqu'à maintenant, les RTE ont indubitablement connu des hauts et des bas.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 500669

• In Djibouti, we have had our ups and downs.

  À Djibouti, nous avons eu des hauts et des bas.

  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 4601859

• Life has its ups and downs.

  La vie a ses hauts et ses bas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #483603 #551898

• And today the ups and downs of life often make reality much nicer than literature.

  Et aujourd’hui, les hauts et les bas de la vie rendent souvent la réalité bien plus belle que la littérature.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 596528

bas

Used about 240 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 182).

• Nobody noticed that the picture was hung upside down.

  Personne ne remarqua que le tableau était suspendu la tête en bas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #276586 #129252

• "Down there?" repeated my uncle.

  —Là-bas?» répond mon oncle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3028

• Today I would like to give you the perspective from down on the plains.

  Aujourd'hui, j'aimerais vous donner la perspective de ceux qui vivent tout en bas.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1124961

• "Lower down the density will still increase."

  —Plus bas, cette densité s'accroîtra encore.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2189

• “Down with the beadles! down with the mace-bearers!”

  «À bas les bedeaux! à bas les massiers!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 159

More sentences

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

• She turned down my offer.

  Elle refusa mon offre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and TRANG · checked, community translation · #314360 #334354

• Go upstairs and bring down my trunk.

  Montez à l'étage et ramenez ma malle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #72895 #10774258

• The constant criticism grinds him down.

  Les critiques incessantes l'accablent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by timmartin and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11431604 #11431607

Grammar

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