prisons — English to French

How English prisons is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: prisons (29 229). By style: everyday 8 · literary 4 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 691 · legal and administrative 109 · UN documents 28 412.

prisons

Used about 21 434 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 605 · legal and administrative ≈ 100 · UN documents ≈ 20 717).

• Convictions are prisons.

  Les convictions sont des prisons.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by luci and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #4320430 #8609144

• At the fortress of Saint-Antoine, at the Palais de Justice of Paris, at the Louvre, these subterranean edifices were prisons.

  À la bastille Saint-Antoine, au Palais de Justice de Paris, au Louvre, ces édifices souterrains étaient des prisons.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5141

• Thirdly, prisons are not hotels.

  Troisièmement, les prisons ne sont pas des hôtels.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052061

• Head of Iran’s Prisons Organisation.

  Chef de l'organisation des prisons iraniennes.

  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 2242524

• Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia Prisons Service;

  Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia Prisons Service;

  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 18509246

détenus

Used about 621 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 29 · UN documents ≈ 592).

• There are over 2 000 Kosovo Albanians held in Serbian prisons, most of them since spring 1999, that is before the NATO offensive.

  On y trouve plus de 2 000 Albanais du Kosovo, la plupart y étant détenus depuis le printemps 1999, avant donc les attaques de l'OTAN.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 65768

• After the earthquake, the priorities were altered to ensuring the security of the prisons and well-being of detainees.

  Après le séisme, la sécurité des établissements pénitentiaires et les conditions de vie des détenus sont devenues prioritaires.

  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 23219944

• On a delegation visit to Kazakhstan in September, I received conclusive evidence of the most brutal treatment in prisons.

  J'ai accompagné une délégation en visite au Kazakhstan en septembre et j'ai eu la preuve manifeste de la brutalité des traitements infligés aux détenus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1429400

More sentences

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

• I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,

  J’ai persécuté à mort cette doctrine, liant et mettant en prison hommes et femmes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 22:4

• But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

  Et c’est un peuple pillé et dépouillé! On les a tous enchaînés dans des cavernes, Plongés dans des cachots; Ils ont été mis au pillage, et personne qui les délivre! Dépouillés, et personne qui dise: Restitue!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 42:22

• But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

  Mais, avant tout cela, on mettra la main sur vous, et l’on vous persécutera; on vous livrera aux synagogues, on vous jettera en prison, on vous mènera devant des rois et devant des gouverneurs, à cause de mon nom.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 21:12

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