explosive — English to French

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

What it means: explosive in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: explosive (22 700), explosives (12 235). By style: everyday 12 · parliamentary 384 · legal and administrative 3 329 · UN documents 31 210.

explosifs

Used about 30 534 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 348 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 190 · UN documents ≈ 26 984). Forms: explosibles, explosif, explosifs, explosive, explosives.

• They have explosives.

  Ils ont des explosifs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3633447 #3633006

• Are they explosives or whatever?

  S'agit-il d'explosifs ou d'autre chose encore ?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2040482

• explosives and explosive devices,

  explosifs et engins explosifs,

  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 1585993

• Explosive Remnants of War

  Restes explosifs de guerre

  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 15078471

• They've got explosives.

  Ils ont des explosifs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2253692 #3633006

armes

Used about 329 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 · UN documents ≈ 325).

• (DA) Mr President, we are discussing a 1 200 km gas pipeline beneath the Baltic from Vyborg in Russia to Greifswald in Germany through an ecologically sensitive inland sea where there is a large difference in sea bed levels, through an area where undetonated explosives from two world wars, as well as poisonous chemicals from the paper industry, are constantly being found.

  (DA) Monsieur le Président, nous discutons d'un gazoduc long de 1 200 km qui sera posé sur le fond de la mer Baltique, reliant Vyborg en Russie à Greifswald en Allemagne, à travers une mer intérieure écologiquement sensible où les fonds marins ont des profondeurs très diverses, dans une zone où gisent des armes non explosées des deux guerres mondiales, ainsi que des substances chimiques dangereuses déversées par l'industrie papetière.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1280413

• During this period, 1,951 weapons, 166,079 rounds of assorted ammunition and 19 pieces of plastic explosives were surrendered by the warring parties.

  Durant cette période, les parties au conflit ont remis 1 951 armes, 166 079 munitions diverses et 19 morceaux de plastique.

  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 1305903

More sentences

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

• The explosive growth in the volume of waste in the future will be both an environmental and a health problem for an enlarged European Union and its citizens.

  La croissance exponentielle du volume de déchets dans le futur constituera un problème environnemental et sanitaire pour l’Europe élargie et ses citoyens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 524107

• Firstly, in former Yugoslavia we have a potentially explosive situation in Kosovo which appears to be deteriorating by the day.

  Premièrement, en ex-Yougoslavie, la situation au Kosovo est très tendue et semble empirer chaque jour.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1799339

• This is actually EUR 4.72 billion below the ceiling set for the financial perspectives, although the increase in outstanding commitments has been explosive.

  L'écart avec les perspectives financières représente la bagatelle de 4,72 milliards d'euros, alors que l'augmentation des engagements non liquidés a connu une véritable explosion.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 343228

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