source — English to French

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

What it means: source in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: source (95 394), sources (107 938). By style: everyday 134 · literary 5 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 7 813 · legal and administrative 22 903 · UN documents 172 476.

source

Used about 172 824 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 126 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 5 697 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 472 · UN documents ≈ 145 527). Forms: source, sources.

• My sources are secret.

  Mes sources sont secrètes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ_Saidez and Rovo · checked, community translation · #10098063 #11486396

• To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind man’s self-sufficiency.

  Ériger un sens qui nous manque en source de vérité, c'est un bel aplomb d'aveugle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11058

• You claim that there is only one source.

  Vous dites qu'il n'y a qu'une seule source.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 335470

• Sources: Refinitiv EIKON, ESMA.

  Sources: Refinitiv EIKON, ESMA

  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 5332464

• Source: Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau.

  Source: Bureau lituanien de la police criminelle.

  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 29478974

énergie

Used about 244 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 244).

• They are a source of inexhaustible renewable energy.

  Elles sont une énergie renouvelable inépuisable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1563032

• I also share the concern of my colleague on the subject of the efforts we need to make in the field of solar energy and agricultural-based alternative energy sources.

  Je partage également le souci de ma collègue au sujet des efforts à réaliser dans le domaine de l'énergie solaire et des énergies alternatives à caractère agricole.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1863073

• Even worse, under pressure from powerful nuclear lobbies, nuclear energy has nearly succeeded in being recognised as a renewable source of energy. This would be a disaster in itself.

  Pire, suite aux pressions des puissants lobbies nucléaires, l'énergie nucléaire a failli être reconnue comme une énergie renouvelable, ce qui aurait quand même été un comble.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2046451

renouvelables

Used about 163 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 163).

• Increasing the productivity of renewables is the only long-term alternative to traditional energy sources.

  Accroître la productivité des énergies renouvelables est la seule alternative à long terme aux carburants traditionnels.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 375410

• Aid for renewable energy sources is justifiable also because conventional energy sources do not pay in any significant way for some of the external costs generated by their use.

  L'aide aux énergies renouvelables se justifie de plus par le fait que les énergies conventionnelles ne paient pas dans une forte proportion certains coûts externes que leur utilisation implique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 120883

More sentences

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

• You can use a decompiler to recover the assembler source code of a compiled file.

  On peut utiliser un décompilateur pour récupérer le code en assembleur d'un fichier compilé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by see and Selenyt · checked, community translation · #11294633 #10277309

• Thomas uses open-source software.

  Thomas utilise des logiciels libres.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by see and Blabla · checked, community translation · #11294663 #5546948

• Water is the source of life.

  L'eau est à l'origine de la vie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #12455506 #12455225

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