durable — English to French

How English durable is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: durable in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: durable (19 465), durables (261). By style: everyday 6 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 174 · legal and administrative 622 · UN documents 18 921.

durable

Used about 17 824 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 136 · legal and administrative ≈ 536 · UN documents ≈ 17 147). Forms: durable, durables.

• These trousers are made of durable cloth.

  Ces pantalons sont faits de tissu durable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #60953 #7955563

• Human thought discovers a mode of perpetuating itself, not only more durable and more resisting than architecture, but still more simple and easy.

  La pensée humaine découvre un moyen de se perpétuer non seulement plus durable et plus résistant que l'architecture, mais encore plus simple et plus facile.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2680

• A military solution cannot be a durable one.

  La solution militaire ne peut être une solution durable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1862414

• Durables

  Biens de consommation durables

  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 3245369

• DURABLE ET DE L’ÉQUITÉ

  DURABLE ET DE L’ÉQUITÉ

  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 4146478

solutions

Used about 398 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 394). Forms: solution, solutions.

• The only way to get a durable settlement to the Kurdish question in Turkey is through a political solution, and that is the best way to combat the PKK.

  La seule façon de régler durablement le problème kurde en Turquie passe par une solution politique, qui est aussi la meilleure façon de lutter contre le PKK.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1330854

• (a) Continue to provide political will and leadership to attain durable solutions for all IDPs in Serbia;

  (a) Continue to provide political will and leadership to attain durable solutions for all IDPs in Serbia;

  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 29182914

• On that note, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the need for a technical agency in charge of the implementation of durable solutions for IDPs.

  On that note, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the need for a technical agency in charge of the implementation of durable solutions for IDPs.

  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 29182887

consommation

Used about 201 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 197).

• The introduction of euro notes and coins, then, also brings visible successes for consumers: prices for consumer durables, such as cars, will fall.

  L'introduction de l'euro fiduciaire apporte aussi des succès tangibles pour les consommateurs : les prix des biens de consommation de longue durée, comme les voitures, vont baisser.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 280189

• Imports of consumer goods Non-durables

  Importation de biens de consommation

  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 9160215

biens

Used about 197 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 197).

• Consumer durables: 88 to 99% of households at all levels are equipped with fridges, washing machines, colour televisions.

  Biens d ' équipement : 88 à 99 % des ménages à tous les niveaux sont équipés de réfrigérateur, machine à laver, télévision couleur.

  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 15388832

More sentences

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

• Screws are more durable than nails.

  Les vis sont plus solides que les clous.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10040498 #10266079

• This seems expensive, but it's so durable it will pay off in the long run.

  Ça semble cher, mais c'est tellement résistant que ce sera rentable sur le long terme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #58723 #7809620

• This rope is really durable.

  Cette corde est vraiment solide.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and lbdx · checked, community translation · #7905100 #10265993

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