penalty — English to French

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

What it means: penalty in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: penalties (31 137), penalty (45 163). By style: everyday 47 · literary 5 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 4 404 · legal and administrative 7 442 · UN documents 64 397.

peine

Used about 33 718 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 505 · legal and administrative ≈ 310 · UN documents ≈ 32 869). Forms: peine, peines.

• You favour the death penalty?

  Tu es pour la peine de mort ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Igider · checked, community translation · #10603687 #10603671

• The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life.

  Le roi, dans son inépuisable clémence, a daigné commuer sa peine en celle des travaux forcés à perpétuité.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7795

• A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

  Celui que la colère emporte doit en subir la peine; Car si tu le libères, tu devras y revenir.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 19:19

• Penalties must suddenly get stricter.

  Nous devons alourdir les peines sur-le-champ.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 843904

• Expulsion as a penalty or legal consequence

  Éloignement à titre de peine ou de mesure accessoire

  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 424024

sanctions

Used about 22 169 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 468 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 271 · UN documents ≈ 15 428). Forms: sanction, sanctions.

• Latecomers are subject to a penalty.

  Les retardataires sont passibles de sanctions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10650071 #10659990

• It seeks to approximate laws with common minimum penalties.

  Elle cherche à rapprocher les législations avec des sanctions communes minimales.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 288769

• Calculation of cash penalties

  Calcul des sanctions pécuniaires

  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 4274641

• Suspension and termination of contract and penalties

  Suspension, résiliation et sanctions

  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 7369633

• Another new aspect is that there has been some increase in the possible penalties.

  Un autre nouvel aspect est l’augmentation du nombre de sanctions possibles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 767757

mort

Used about 2 323 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 652 · UN documents ≈ 671).

• The penalty is death.

  La sentence est la mort.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4494721 #7967034

• Death penalty in the United States

  Peine de mort aux États-Unis

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 42726

• New Australian Federal Police guidelines governing police-to-police assistance in possible death penalty cases took effect on 18 December 2009.

  Les nouvelles directives de la Police fédérale australienne régissant l ' entraide policière dans les cas de possible condamnation à mort ont pris effet le 18 décembre 2009.

  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 21687250

• Slandering the gods was punished with the death penalty.

  L'outrage aux divinités impliquait la peine de mort.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1862728

• I think it is paragraph 48 that refers to the death penalty.

  Je pense que c'est le paragraphe 48 qui porte sur la peine de mort.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1268105

More sentences

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

• The referee gave a penalty.

  L'arbitre a sifflé un penalty.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11818449 #10659984

• The penalty was missed.

  Le pénalty a été raté.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · #863168 #862750

• He missed the penalty.

  Il a raté le penalty.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and GuillaumeR · checked, community translation · #10314428 #11220995

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