serious — English to French

How English serious is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: serious in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: serious (152 593). By style: everyday 445 · literary 25 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 17 007 · legal and administrative 8 627 · UN documents 126 488.

grave

Used about 85 013 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 93 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 9 212 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 189 · UN documents ≈ 68 514). Forms: grave, graves.

• It's a serious problem.

  C'est un grave problème.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #2713552 #1540792

• “Oh! oh!” he murmured at length, “this is serious indeed.”

  «Oh! oh! murmura-t-il enfin, ceci est grave, en effet.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7737

• That is a serious error.

  C'est une grave erreur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 102466

• No of serious infringements detected

  Nombre d'infractions graves détectées

  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 4139213

• 43. UNHCR was facing serious budget deficits.

  43. Le HCR connaît de graves déficits budgétaires.

  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 8796091

sérieux

Used about 18 931 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 269 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 2 835 · UN documents ≈ 15 811). Forms: sérieuse, sérieux.

• Are you serious, bro?

  Tu es sérieux, mec ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and menaud · checked, community translation · #12476308 #12476313

• To-day, people are serious.

  Aujourd'hui on est sérieux.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29305

• You may laugh, Mr President, but I am serious.

  Vous pouvez rire, Monsieur le Président, mais je suis sérieux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2036654

• No serious body adopts the same legislation twice.

  Or, aucun organe sérieux n ' adopte la même législation à deux reprises.

  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 8736698

• I wasn't serious.

  Je n'étais pas sérieuse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #2247555 #2561099

très

Used about 2 815 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 180 · UN documents ≈ 2 635).

• Indeed, it caused serious difficulties for the Commission to arrive at accurate and substantiated findings with respect to this subsidy scheme.

  En effet, il a été très difficile pour la Commission de parvenir à des conclusions précises et dûment étayées en ce qui concerne ce régime de subventions.

  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 5002533

• The same speaker expressed serious concern about the very limited basic data on which the programme was built.

  Le même intervenant s ' est dit extrêmement préoccupé par le fait que le programme avait été conçu à partir de données de base très limitées.

  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 9198716

problème

Used about 354 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 354).

• I must say, therefore, that we recognise the serious nature of this issue.

  Dès lors, je dois dire que nous reconnaissons la nature sérieuse de ce problème.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 513411

More sentences

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

• I didn't realize you were serious.

  Je n'ai pas pris conscience que vous étiez sérieuses.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2362082 #2370918

• You weren't serious, were you?

  Vous n'étiez pas sérieuses, si ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2288254 #2288795

• Are you serious about getting married?

  Envisagez-vous sérieusement de vous marier ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3476416 #3487303

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