hard — English to French

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

What it means: hard in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: hard (28 649), hards (2). By style: everyday 1 547 · literary 22 · biblical 44 · parliamentary 5 897 · legal and administrative 2 155 · UN documents 18 986.

dur

Used about 3 140 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 612 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 826 · legal and administrative ≈ 494 · UN documents ≈ 1 187). Forms: dur, dure.

• It won't be hard.

  Ce ne sera pas dur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2272054 #5619315

• "Too hard for the pickaxe."

  —C'est trop dur pour le pic, m'écriai-je.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3636

• The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

  Les Égyptiens nous maltraitèrent et nous opprimèrent, et ils nous soumirent à une dure servitude.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 26:6

• This is not really a question of creating a hard core.

  Il ne s'agit pas tellement de créer un noyau dur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 69644

• a slot for a hard disk.

  emplacement pour disque dur.

  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 2871345

difficile

Used about 2 751 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 451 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 061 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 · UN documents ≈ 1 187).

• That's hard to do.

  C'est difficile à faire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5377302 #5576612

• “Is it very hard to get a place as medical man on board a Transatlantic liner?”

  --Est-ce très difficile à obtenir, les places de médecin sur un transatlantique?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2120

• Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

  Jésus, voyant qu’il était devenu tout triste, dit: Qu’il est difficile à ceux qui ont des richesses d’entrer dans le royaume de Dieu!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:24

• A better example of EU incompetence would be hard to find.

  Il serait difficile de trouver un meilleur exemple de l’incompétence de l’UE.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 810357

• Germany has on the contrary indicated that it was hard to quantify the value that stable load had for the network.

  Au contraire, l'Allemagne a souligné combien il est difficile de quantifier la valeur d'une consommation électrique stable pour le réseau.

  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 4785604

caoutchouc

Used about 808 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 808).

• Articles of hard rubber

  Ouvrages en caoutchouc durci

  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 375191

• Of hard rubber or plastics

  en caoutchouc durci ou en matières plastiques

  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 344383

• Tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber

  Tubes et tuyaux en caoutchouc vulcanisé non durci

  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 3406288

• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber

  Vêtements et accessoires de l’habillement en caoutchouc vulcanisé non durci

  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 2994949

• Hygienic or pharmaceutical articles (including teats), of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber

  Articles d'hygiène ou de pharmacie (y compris les tétines) en caoutchouc vulcanisé non durci

  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 4081851

More sentences

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

• Yamada tried hard to keep his anger against his boss in check.

  Yamada s'efforça de contenir sa colère envers son patron.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #245116 #9009684

• Yesterday it rained hard.

  Il a plu à verse hier.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by whitefishglobal and sbamsbamsbam · checked, community translation · #4823475 #4101223

• Don't work too hard.

  Ne te tue pas à la tâche !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gillux · checked, community translation · #280194 #4344462

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