ground — English to French

How English ground is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: ground in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: ground (66 168), grounds (69 854). By style: everyday 240 · literary 57 · biblical 204 · parliamentary 7 519 · legal and administrative 17 460 · UN documents 110 542.

motifs

Used about 24 272 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 392 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 456 · UN documents ≈ 18 424).

• In addition, persecutions on political and/or theological grounds continue to occur frequently.

  Par ailleurs, les persécutions pour des motifs politiques et/ou théologiques restent fréquentes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1129295

• GROUNDS FOR INITIATING THE PROCEDURE

  MOTIFS JUSTIFIANT L’OUVERTURE DE LA PROCÉDURE

  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 1142444

• C. Grounds for the termination of an

  C. Motifs pour la rupture du contrat de travail123-129

  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 5022886

• They have a public duty to take up a complaint that has been laid before them on ostensibly justifiable grounds.

  Celui-ci a le devoir public de s'occuper d'une plainte dont il a été saisi pour des motifs prétendument valables.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 472608

• Grounds for initiating the formal investigation procedure

  Motifs de l'ouverture de la procédure formelle 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 3864462

terrain

Used about 23 336 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 253 · legal and administrative ≈ 182 · UN documents ≈ 21 878).

• The ground was very uneven.

  Le terrain était très irrégulier.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2268164 #10779671

• “She swam across,” replied the recluse, defending her ground foot by foot.

  --Elle aura passé à la nage, répliqua la recluse défendant le terrain pied à pied.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8632

• The situation on the ground is deteriorating by the day.

  La situation sur le terrain se détériore de jour en jour.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 909850

• The Head of Mission shall coordinate, as appropriate, the actions of EUPOL RD Congo with other Union actors on the ground.

  Le chef de la mission assure, au besoin, une coordination des actions d'EUPOL RD Congo avec d'autres acteurs de l'UE sur le terrain.

  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 2015858

• Reality on the ground 459 - 485 60

  Réalité sur le terrain 459−485 63

  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 22367076

sol

Used about 16 322 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 96 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 313 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 365 · UN documents ≈ 11 515).

• The ground is frozen.

  Le sol est gelé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by maaster and lbdx · checked, community translation · #9738355 #9978157

• The Icelandic huts are made of earth and turf, and the walls slope inward; they rather resemble roofs placed on the ground.

  Les huttes des Islandais sont faites de terre et de tourbe, et leurs murs inclinés en dedans; elles ressemblent à des toits posés sur le sol.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 860

• Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

  Les insectes prendront possession de tous tes arbres et du fruit de ton sol.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 28:42

• Galileo is to comprise a network of 30 satellites and a ground-control infrastructure.

  Galileo se composera d'un réseau de trente satellites et d'une infrastructure de contrôle au sol.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1112821

• Ground Proximity Warning Systems;

  Systèmes d’alarme de proximité du sol;

  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 2449931

raisons

Used about 6 246 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 705 · legal and administrative ≈ 909 · UN documents ≈ 4 606).

• There are grounds for optimism.

  Il y a des raisons d'être optimiste.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and benl · checked, community translation · #5729826 #5092810

• I support the opt-out on two grounds.

  Je soutiens l'opt-out pour deux raisons.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 254335

• E. GROUNDS TO WITHDRAW THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNDERTAKING

  E. RAISONS DE RETIRER L'ACCEPTATION DE L'ENGAGEMENT

  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 3722703

• 25. Is divorce available for women and men on the same grounds?

  Les femmes peuvent-elles divorcer pour les mêmes raisons que les hommes?

  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 15113146

• Do you have any grounds for thinking so?

  Avez-vous des raisons de le penser ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · #49753 #9978493

More sentences

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

• Tom found a penny on the ground.

  Tom a trouvé un centime par terre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #10063550 #11960822

• The leaves fall to the ground in autumn.

  Les feuilles tombent par terre en automne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and BigMouse · checked, community translation · #266349 #1594610

• I sat down on the ground.

  Je me suis assis par terre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5916349 #8110894

Grammar

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