foundation — English to French
How English foundation is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.
What it means: foundation in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: foundation (49 839), foundations (15 656). By style: everyday 27 · literary 11 · biblical 78 · parliamentary 3 513 · legal and administrative 2 594 · UN documents 59 272.
fondations
Used about 28 721 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 281 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 108 · UN documents ≈ 25 314). Forms: fondation, fondations.
This house has a solid foundation.
Cette maison a de solides fondations.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mamat · checked, community translation · #60134 #647173Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé of Saint-Germain, “on condition that no woman could be received unless she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six thousand livres, to the principal.”
Toutes deux, l'une en 1652, l'autre en 1653, firent donation de sommes notables à la mère Catherine de Bar, dite du Saint-Sacrement, religieuse bénédictine, pour fonder, dans ce but pieux, un monastère de l'ordre de Saint-Benoît; la première permission pour cette fondation fut donnée à la mère Catherine de Bar par Mr de Metz, abbé de Saint-Germain, «à la charge qu'aucune fille ne pourrait être reçue, qu'elle n'apportât trois cents livres de pension, qui font six mille livres au principal».
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10825who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
prédestiné avant la fondation du monde, et manifesté à la fin des temps, à cause de vous,
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 1:20The house of Europe needs solid foundations.
La maison Europe a besoin de fondations solides.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1783483For European Political Foundations
Pour les fondations politiques européennes
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 3729017
fondements
Used about 12 122 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 842 · legal and administrative ≈ 108 · UN documents ≈ 11 113). Forms: fondement, fondements.
The rumor was without foundation.
La rumeur était sans fondement.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #49592 #1267424If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Quand les fondements sont renversés, Le juste, que ferait-il?
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 11:3Then we will have laid the foundations for them.
Nous en aurons ainsi jeté les fondements.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1458705Strengthening the foundations for RevCon3
Renforcement des fondements de la troisième conférence d'examen
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 4163365II. The imperative foundations of international
II. LES FONDEMENTS IMPÉRATIFS DE L ' ORDRE INTERNATIONAL:
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 10755757
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Mathematics are the foundation of all sciences.
Les mathématiques sont la base de toute science.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1723922 #1833117Individual freedom is the foundation of democracy.
La liberté individuelle est la base de la démocratie.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1787055 #1787767The rumor was without foundation.
La rumeur était infondée.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and gasche · checked, community translation · #49592 #427081
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