lost — English to French

How English lost is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: lost in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: lost (28 866). By style: everyday 1 489 · literary 59 · biblical 29 · parliamentary 3 961 · legal and administrative 2 073 · UN documents 21 255.

perdu

Used about 15 166 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 117 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 815 · legal and administrative ≈ 691 · UN documents ≈ 11 513). Forms: perdu, perdus.

• They've got lost.

  Ils se sont perdus.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #10022157 #8632630

• “I have lost my copy books.

  --J'ai perdu mes cahiers.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4221

• For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

  Car le Fils de l’homme est venu sauver ce qui était perdu.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:11

• The military have lost nothing there.

  Les militaires n’ont rien perdu là.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 516446

• As a result, France Télécom had then lost the markets' confidence.

  En conséquence, FT avait alors perdu la confiance des marchés.

  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 825991

More sentences

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

• I almost lost my wallet.

  J'ai failli perdre mon portefeuille.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Yemana · checked, community translation · #3259729 #3259728

• It's better to walk back than to get lost.

  Il est préférable de retourner en arrière plutôt que de se perdre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1287197 #1287274

• We're completely lost.

  Nous sommes complètement égarées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2240839 #4805472

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