fuel — English to French

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

What it means: fuel in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fuel (69 881), fuels (15 798). By style: everyday 43 · literary 1 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 3 905 · legal and administrative 19 299 · UN documents 62 429.

combustible

Used about 37 568 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 098 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 454 · UN documents ≈ 26 012). Forms: combustible, combustibles.

• There was not enough fuel.

  Il n'y avait pas assez de combustible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and Aiji · checked, community translation · #806929 #5899395

• Spent fuel and radioactive waste (

  Combustible usé et déchets radioactifs (

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1584619

• Fuel gases; Petroleum gas

  Gaz combustibles; gaz de pétrole

  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 1083837

• Solid fuels > 1 MWth - 5 MWth

  Combustibles solides > 1 à 5 MWth

  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 28007430

• Petrol is used as fuel.

  L'essence est utilisée comme combustible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #11434027 #1336827

carburant

Used about 33 608 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 1 993 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 232 · UN documents ≈ 25 362). Forms: carburant, carburants.

• Beer is my fuel.

  La bière est mon carburant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and GB3 · checked, community translation · #5685823 #6858030

• We no longer want to use fossil fuels.

  Nous ne voulons plus utiliser les carburants fossiles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1539266

• calorific value of the fuel in MJ/m3

  capacité calorifique du carburant en MJ/m3

  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 5535528

• Fuel mass flow rate

  Débit massique du carburant

  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 20927540

• I ran out of fuel.

  Je suis tombé en panne de carburant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1510279 #12237726

gaz

Used about 402 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 402).

• Gas, coal, lignite, fuel oil, electricity, biomass, etc.’

  Gaz, charbon, lignite, fioul, biomasse, etc.»

  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 962025

• Iron or steel gas domestic cooking appliances and plate warmers, with an oven (including those with subsidiary boilers for central heating, separate ovens for both gas and other fuels)

  Appareils de cuisson et chauffe-plats à gaz ou mixtes (fonte, fer, acier), avec fours

  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 2683370

fossiles

Used about 86 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 81).

• Fossil fuel prices shot through the roof.

  Le prix des carburants fossiles s'envole.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and superbolo · checked, community translation · #25343 #181755

• Faced with the issue of climate, there are obviously alternatives to fossil fuels.

  Or, face à cette problématique du climat, il y a, effectivement, des alternatives aux énergies fossiles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1857690

• This vast continent is abundant in fossil fuels.

  Ce vaste continent regorge de combustibles fossiles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #47992 #8976894

• The growing use of fossil fuel energy sources will increase emissions by 5 million tonnes annually.

  L'utilisation croissante des sources d'énergie fossiles augmentera les émissions de 5 millions de tonnes chaque année.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1175198

• Fossil fuels are the main causes of global warming.

  Les combustibles fossiles sont les principaux responsables du réchauffement climatique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LanguageExpert and lbdx · checked, community translation · #1846542 #13223307

énergie

Used about 81 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 81).

• Peat is a biomass fuel with a slow renewability rate.

  Il s' agit d' une énergie de biomasse à renouvellement lent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 146854

• I would draw your attention to a few figures: at present, we use the equivalent of ten billion tons of oil, 90% of which is fossil fuel.

  Je rappelle quelques chiffres: 10 milliards de tonnes équivalent pétrole aujourd’hui, dont 90% d’énergie fossile.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 543279

More sentences

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

• Pollutants like this derive mainly from the combustion of fuel in car engines.

  Les polluants comme celui-ci viennent principalement de la combustion de l'essence dans les moteurs de voiture.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by timmartin and Lulantis · checked, community translation · #58620 #11377

• The fuel gauge is broken.

  La jauge d'essence est pétée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1545434 #1546230

• Your stupid remark just added fuel to the flames.

  Ta remarque idiote n'a fait qu'attiser les flammes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #597352 #819552

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