fire — English to French

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

What it means: fire in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fire (41 274), fires (4 754). By style: everyday 692 · literary 85 · biblical 461 · parliamentary 2 703 · legal and administrative 5 968 · UN documents 36 119.

incendies

Used about 20 432 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 180 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 464 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 984 · UN documents ≈ 15 802). Forms: incendie, incendies.

• I fight forest fires.

  Je lutte contre les incendies de forêt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #12157029 #12157113

• Whatever may be thought of this triple explanation, political, physical, and poetical, of the burning of the law courts in 1618, the unfortunate fact of the fire is certain.

  Quoi qu'on pense de cette triple explication politique, physique, poétique, de l'incendie du Palais de Justice en 1618, le fait malheureusement certain, c'est l'incendie.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 61

• Forest fires in Portugal

  Incendies de forêts au Portugal

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887446

• .2 Capacity of fire pumps

  .2 Débit des pompes d’incendie

  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 5161128

• Number of forest fires;

  Nombre d ' incendies de forêt;

  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 10432106

feu

Used about 8 547 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 370 · literary ≈ 76 · biblical ≈ 433 · parliamentary ≈ 591 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 057 · UN documents ≈ 6 020). Forms: feu, feux.

• The house caught fire.

  La maison a pris feu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #49405 #3642070

• “’Tis a big fire.”

  --C'est un gros feu.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4264

• The meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

  Mais il brûla au feu hors du camp la chair et la peau.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 9:11

• So we are playing with fire.

  Nous jouons donc avec le feu.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 120034

• Natural fires inside the Member State

  Feux naturels dans l’État membre

  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 392999

forêt

Used about 1 764 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 197 · legal and administrative ≈ 62 · UN documents ≈ 1 505).

• Mr President, no-one could have been surprised by the news that the forests are on fire in the Brazilian Amazon.

  Monsieur le Président, personne ne sera surpris d'apprendre que la forêt brûle dans l'Amazonie brésilienne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1765999

• activities for forest monitoring and information systems, and to prevent forest fires.

  activités en faveur de systèmes de surveillance des forêts et d'information sur celles-ci, ainsi que de la prévention des feux de forêt.

  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 4488304

• Related work was being done at JRC on forest fires.

  Des travaux connexes concernant les feux de forêt étaient réalisés au CCR.

  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 13695718

• The EU countries should develop structures for helping each other in the event of forest fires and other natural disasters.

  . - Les pays de l’UE devraient mettre en place des structures d’entraide en cas de feux de forêt et d’autres catastrophes naturelles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 783916

• Outside the European region, however, there is a gap in activities in forest areas affected by pollution, except fires.

  Cependant, en dehors de l ' Europe, on relève une insuffisance des activités dans les régions forestières touchées par la pollution, sauf en ce qui concerne les feux de forêt.

  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 3982347

More sentences

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

• Sami set Layla's body on fire.

  Sami a incendié le corps de Layla.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #6378535 #6378552

• The house was on fire.

  La maison était en flammes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Christiane · checked, community translation · #2547062 #744372

• I have bought a new fire extinguisher.

  J'ai acheté un nouvel extincteur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #2872535 #2872536

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