fight — English to French

How English fight is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: fight in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fight (58 865), fights (473). By style: everyday 290 · literary 6 · biblical 95 · parliamentary 12 114 · legal and administrative 1 884 · UN documents 44 949.

lutte

Used about 30 313 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 4 290 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 658 · UN documents ≈ 24 347). Forms: lutte, lutter.

• I think it's time for me to join the fight.

  Je pense qu'il est temps pour moi de me joindre à la lutte.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #903847 #1372671

• As such, the Internet is a vital weapon in the fight for a better world.

  Internet constitue donc une arme importante dans la lutte pour un monde meilleur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 215340

• The fight against doping

  Lutte contre le dopage

  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 3105810

• “We are here to fight for our lives.

  «Nous sommes ici pour lutter pour notre survie.

  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 1650771

• Doctors have made great strides in their fight against cancer.

  Les médecins ont fait de grandes avancées dans leur lutte contre le cancer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rockaround · checked, community translation · #28091 #7024642

combat

Used about 4 652 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 61 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 1 640 · legal and administrative ≈ 113 · UN documents ≈ 2 809). Forms: combat, combattre.

• I won the fight.

  J'ai gagné le combat.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2549541 #7793303

• The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still.

  La plupart des blessés pouvaient et voulaient encore combattre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25482

• I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

  J’ai combattu le bon combat, j’ai achevé la course, j’ai gardé la foi.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 4:7

• I believe that this is key to making progress in the fight against this illness.

  Je pense que c'est fondamental si nous voulons progresser dans notre combat.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1471898

• Responsible for training separatists to fight against the Ukrainian government forces

  Responsable de la formation des séparatistes en vue de combattre les forces gouvernementales ukrainiennes

  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 3143495

contre

Used about 3 152 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 1 262 · UN documents ≈ 1 873).

• We must fight against alcoholism.

  Il faut lutter contre l'alcoolisme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #8637510 #8636177

• By David. Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

  De David. Éternel! Défends-moi contre mes adversaires, Combats ceux qui me combattent!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 35:1

• Education is the best way to fight discrimination.

  L'éducation constitue la meilleure arme pour lutter contre la discrimination.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1482177

• Global initiative to fight human trafficking: revised draft decision

  Initiative mondiale contre la traite des êtres humains: projet de résolution révisé

  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 17142240

• So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hand.

  Jephthé marcha contre les fils d’Ammon, et l’Éternel les livra entre ses mains.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 11:32

battre

Used about 804 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 78 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 252 · UN documents ≈ 468).

• I want to fight.

  Je veux me battre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1841654 #1842960

• “But I am going to fight a duel with this gentleman.”

  --Mais je dois me battre avec monsieur.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2488

• David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

  David dit à Saül: Que personne ne se décourage à cause de ce Philistin! Ton serviteur ira se battre avec lui.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 17:32

• We must not forget that we need to fight for the ongoing and fundamental implementation of Parliament's parliamentary rights.

  Il ne faut pas oublier que nous devons nous battre pour l'application continue et fondamentale des droits parlementaires du Parlement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1523477

• Georgian women had not had to fight for the right to vote; the Soviet Union had simply given it to them.

  Les femmes géorgiennes n ' ont pas eu à se battre pour obtenir le droit de vote; l ' Union soviétique leur avait tout simplement donné.

  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 15162560

terrorisme

Used about 252 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 252).

• A package solution to the crisis is not sufficient to fight terror. Instead, long-term measures on a Community footing are required.

  Un paquet de solutions à la crise ne suffit pas à vaincre le terrorisme; il faut plutôt des mesures à long terme au niveau communautaire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 580558

• The only realistic solution is to find ways of taking the tension out of social and ethnic fights, of reconciling all men of good faith, irrespective of nationality, religion, social position or ideology, in fact everyone who is determined to put an end to the scourges which inflict mankind and which, even if they do not result in terrorism, prepare the ground for terrorism and we need to remove this ground if we are to guarantee the security of our citizens.

  La seule solution réaliste consiste à rechercher les moyens permettant de réduire les tensions dans les luttes sociales et nationales, et cela dans l' entente des hommes de bonne foi, quelles que soient leur nation, leur religion, leur position sociale, leur idéologie, de tous ceux qui sont résolus à mettre un terme aux fléaux de l' humanité qui, quand ils ne conduisent pas au terrorisme, en constituent le terreau - et c' est ce terreau qu' il nous faut éliminer pour garantir la sécurité au citoyen.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 239736

More sentences

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

• Ziri was in a fight and lost.

  Ziri s'est bagarré et a perdu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #10213887 #11756706

• He had bruises all over after the fight.

  Il avait le corps couvert de contusions après la bagarre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #289795 #130869

• Sami was looking for a fight.

  Sami cherchait la bagarre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #6329685 #6329753

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