overcome — English to French

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

What it means: overcome in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: overcome (27 168), overcomes (138). By style: everyday 53 · literary 8 · biblical 31 · parliamentary 2 888 · legal and administrative 611 · UN documents 23 715.

surmonter

Used about 8 654 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 1 238 · legal and administrative ≈ 226 · UN documents ≈ 7 164).

• They can overcome their fear.

  Ils peuvent surmonter leur peur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dipdowel and U2FS · checked, community translation · #2581635 #805034

• Big hurdles remain to be overcome here.

  Il reste des obstacles importants à surmonter dans ce domaine.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1077723

• The issuance of bonds is crucial in order to raise capital and to overcome the COVID-19 crisis.

  L’émission d’obligations est essentielle pour mobiliser des capitaux et surmonter la crise liée à la COVID-19.

  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 5350191

• What measures have proved effective to overcome those impediments?

  Quelles mesures se sont révélées utiles pour les surmonter?

  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 27388833

• You must overcome the difficulties.

  Tu dois surmonter les difficultés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Trank and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #47824 #474115

obstacles

Used about 892 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 150 · UN documents ≈ 741).

• He has overcome many obstacles.

  Il a surmonté de nombreux obstacles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #301103 #132877

• It is our hope that the remaining obstacles to Russian membership of the WTO can be overcome.

  Nous espérons que les derniers obstacles à l'adhésion de la Russie à l'OMC pourront être surmontés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1034013

• (c) Describe the measures introduced and designed to overcome barriers to the exercise of those rights;

  c) Décrire les mesures prises en vue de vaincre les obstacles à l ' exercice de ces droits;

  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 4116780

• I hope that in the near future, we shall be able to work out solutions to overcome the regulatory barriers between the EU and the US.

  J'espère que dans un avenir proche, nous pourrons définir des solutions pour éliminer les obstacles réglementaires entre l'UE et les États-Unis.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1295339

• New purchases have had to be made under tighter restrictions and numerous obstacles have had to be overcome.

  En effet, les achats effectués à cette occasion ont été soumis à des conditions très strictes et se sont heurtés à de nombreux obstacles.

  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 8594246

difficultés

Used about 789 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 · UN documents ≈ 741).

• She could overcome all difficulties.

  Elle pouvait venir à bout de toutes les difficultés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and felix63 · checked, community translation · #12197174 #10162569

• Furthermore, the firm’s financial difficulties were too serious for the group itself to overcome.

  Les difficultés financières de l’entreprise étaient en outre trop graves pour être résolues par le groupe lui-même.

  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 2499469

• The Federal Government and society at large were striving to overcome those difficulties.

  Le Gouvernement fédéral et l ' ensemble de la société civile s ' efforcent de vaincre ces difficultés.

  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 3706072

• Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.

  Rien ne saurait étonner un Américain. On a souvent répété que le mot "impossible" n’était pas français; on s’est évidemment trompé de dictionnaire. En Amérique, tout est facile, tout est simple, et quant aux difficultés mécaniques, elles sont mortes avant d’être nées.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #663024 #662971

• The use of payroll as a proxy for profitability removes the need to ascertain profits or overcomes difficulties in doing so.

  L'utilisation des salaires pour remplacer la rentabilité supprime la nécessité de contrôler les bénéfices ou évite ainsi des difficultés.

  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 543899

More sentences

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

• She was overcome with happiness.

  Elle fut submergée de bonheur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shiawase and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #917797 #1556910

• She was overcome with happiness.

  Elle était submergée de bonheur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shiawase and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #917797 #920724

• Tom was suddenly overcome by a great weariness.

  Tom a soudain été submergé par une grande lassitude.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2774737 #8965469

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