forced — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: forced (58 590). By style: everyday 153 · literary 24 · biblical 23 · parliamentary 3 755 · legal and administrative 1 341 · UN documents 53 294.

forcé

Used about 27 859 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 73 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 486 · legal and administrative ≈ 754 · UN documents ≈ 25 537). Forms: forcé, forcée, forcés.

• I was forced to go.

  On m'a forcé à y aller.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · #255839 #3281618

• Coictier gave a forced laugh.

  Coictier riait d'un rire forcé.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2455

• Our view is that prostitution is always forced.

  Nous sommes d'avis que la prostitution est toujours forcée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 411352

• ILO Convention 29 on Forced Labour;

  Convention no 29 de l’OIT sur le travail forcé

  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 3196888

• Hostile action/forced abandonment factor

  Acte d ' hostilité ou abandon forcé

  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 17964358

contraint

Used about 4 879 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 391 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 · UN documents ≈ 4 441).

• I am forced to do it.

  Je suis contraint à le faire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1157296 #982156

• So we were forced to keep quiet for several weeks, for fear of reprisals.

  Donc, par peur de représailles, on a été aussi contraint, pour plusieurs semaines, au silence.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1716496

• According to the Portuguese authorities the State was forced to renew the guarantee as an immediate disruption of BPP would clearly have compromised the solution currently under consideration.

  Selon elles, l’État était contraint de renouveler cette garantie, car la défaillance immédiate de BPP aurait manifestement compromis la solution à l’étude à ce moment.

  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 2260687

• He was forced to stay in this position for 30 minutes.

  Il avait été contraint de rester dans cette position pendant une demiheure.

  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 18457179

• She forced him to sit down.

  Elle l'a contraint à s'asseoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #887120 #1339617

More sentences

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

• Tom forced himself to speak.

  Tom se força à parler.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #3724315 #5304034

• He was forced to resign as Prime Minister.

  Il a été obligé de démissionner en tant que premier ministre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #14025033 #5238462

• She forced him to sit down.

  Elle le contraignit à s'asseoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #887120 #1339616

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