severe — English to French

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

What it means: severe in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: severe (30 150), severes (1). By style: everyday 31 · literary 19 · biblical 24 · parliamentary 1 524 · legal and administrative 2 082 · UN documents 26 471.

graves

Used about 12 792 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 572 · legal and administrative ≈ 868 · UN documents ≈ 11 345). Forms: grave, graves.

• Ziri had severe autism.

  Ziri souffrait d'un cas grave d'autisme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · #10511468 #12481994

• then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.

  l’Éternel te frappera miraculeusement, toi et ta postérité, par des plaies grandes et de longue durée, par des maladies graves et opiniâtres.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 28:59

• There is severe malnutrition in North Korea.

  La Corée du Nord souffre de graves problèmes de malnutrition.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1975352

• Causes severe skin burns and eye damage

  H314: Provoque de graves brûlures de la peau et des lésions oculaires

  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 1636571

• Underweight (%, moderate and severe)*

  Insuffisance pondérale (modérée et grave, en pourcentage*

  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 22930558

sévère

Used about 1 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 381 · legal and administrative ≈ 304 · UN documents ≈ 1 080). Forms: sévère, sévères.

• He was severe with his children.

  Il était sévère avec ses enfants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and queenie · checked, community translation · #297156 #140105

• He was severe in his enjoyments.

  Il était sévère dans les joies.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13986

• It is firm, even severe, and demanding.

  Ferme, sévère même, exigeant.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1942873

• Eye contact: Causes severe irritation.

  Contact avec les yeux: Provoque une irritation sévère.

  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 5239123

• They have reinforced supervision, imposing severe punishment in cases of interrogation by torture.

  Ils ont renforcé les contrôles, imposant des peines sévères quand des cas de torture lors d ' un interrogatoire ont été constatés.

  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 2689853

More sentences

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

• Alice returned home early from work with a severe headache.

  Alice rentra plus tôt du travail avec un sérieux mal de tête.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Apex · checked, community translation · #67347 #10586

• The winter will be severe.

  L'hiver sera rigoureux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by danepo and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3387865 #11418957

• The weather service has issued a severe weather warning.

  Le service météorologique a émis un avis de tempête.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #984451 #984499

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