exercise — English to French

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

What it means: exercise in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: exercise (116 883), exercises (12 420). By style: everyday 196 · literary 7 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 4 376 · legal and administrative 12 159 · UN documents 112 557.

exercice

Used about 71 580 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 171 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 054 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 727 · UN documents ≈ 58 623). Forms: exerce, exercer, exercice, exercices.

• He exercises.

  Il fait de l'exercice.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #8476203 #9017653

• “I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and who bear wonderful fruit.”

  --J'ai consulté sur cette question plusieurs ecclésiastiques travaillant en Notre-Seigneur qui s'occupent dans l'exercice de la vie cléricale et qui font un fruit admirable.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11522

• For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.

  Exerce-toi à la piété; car l’exercice corporel est utile à peu de chose, tandis que la piété est utile à tout, ayant la promesse de la vie présente et de celle qui est à venir.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 4:8

• This is not an exercise in sympathy.

  Il ne s'agit pas d'un exercice de copinage.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 939674

• Exercise of the delegation

  Exercice de la délégation

  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 2200859

droit

Used about 10 643 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 91 · UN documents ≈ 10 552).

• I have noticed that each time the minority exercises a right, the Rules of Procedure are changed.

  Je constate que, toutes les fois que la minorité fait usage d'un droit, on change le règlement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1265627

• 33. The CHAIRMAN invited those delegations that wished to do so to exercise their right of reply.

  33. Le PRESIDENT invite les délégations qui souhaitent faire usage du droit de réponse à prendre la parole.

  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 2969352

• Most of them have already found other lives and are certainly unlikely to exercise the right to return to precisely the houses in which they once lived.

  La plupart d'entre elles ont refait leur vie ailleurs, et ne voudront certainement pas faire usage du droit de retourner dans la maison où elles habitaient autrefois.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2015512

• 30. Also at the same meeting, the representative of Eritrea made a statement in exercise of the right of reply.

  À la même séance, la représentante de l ' Érythrée a fait une déclaration au titre du droit de réponse.

  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 22606138

• Our air defences, acting in exercise of the legitimate right to defend the homeland, engaged the aircraft and, at 2315 hours, drove them off.

  Exerçant leur droit légitime de défendre le pays, nos forces antiaériennes les ont contraints à rebrousser chemin à 23 h 15.

  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 9601607

faire

Used about 3 660 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 137 · UN documents ≈ 3 517).

• You should do abs exercises.

  Vous devriez faire des abdominaux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · #11759319 #11759318

• Then he began to read them promptly, one after the other, made a sign to Master Olivier who appeared to exercise the office of minister, to take a pen, and without communicating to him the contents of the despatches, he began to dictate in a low voice, the replies which the latter wrote, on his knees, in an inconvenient attitude before the table.

  Puis il se mit à les lire promptement l'une après l'autre, fit signe à maître Olivier, qui paraissait avoir près de lui office de ministre, de prendre une plume, et, sans lui faire part au contenu des dépêches, commença à lui en dicter à voix basse les réponses, que celui-ci écrivait, assez incommodément agenouillé devant la table.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7513

• The partners have had more than enough time to exercise influence on this.

  Les partenaires ont eu plus que le temps nécessaire pour pouvoir faire valoir leur position en la matière.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 518587

• I appeal to all sides to exercise restraint.

  J ' appelle toutes les parties à faire preuve de mesure.

  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 21734465

• I need to exercise a bit. Do you want to come with me?

  J’ai besoin de faire un peu de sport, ça te dit de m’accompagner ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Igider · checked, community translation · #13194184 #12750287

contrôle

Used about 174 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 46 · legal and administrative ≈ 128).

• At the same time, Cuban independent NGOs are not allowed to work as the government exercises a draconian control over them.

  Parallèlement, les ONG indépendantes cubaines n'ont pas la possibilité de faire leur travail, car elles font l'objet d'un contrôle draconien de la part du gouvernement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1359733

• The government exercises full ownership and financial control over Sinosure.

  Sinosure appartient en totalité aux pouvoirs publics et est soumise à leur contrôle financier.

  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 3044589

More sentences

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

• My brother has bought an exercise bicycle in order to stay fit.

  Mon frère a acheté un vélo stationnaire pour rester en forme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13863613 #13863615

• Please exercise every caution against cowboy salesmen of water purifiers and fraudulent-test sales.

  Soyez systématiquement vigilant avec les vendeurs peu scrupuleux de purificateurs d'eau et les faux inspecteurs de qualité des équipements.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #329417 #330905

• The exercise book doesn't belong to you, it belongs to him.

  Le cahier ne t'appartient pas, il lui appartient.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #11894921 #452036

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