strict — English to French

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

What it means: strict in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: strict (24 405). By style: everyday 81 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 966 · legal and administrative 1 617 · UN documents 19 739.

strict

Used about 15 143 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 2 286 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 280 · UN documents ≈ 11 514). Forms: strict, stricte, strictes, stricts.

• I'm very strict.

  Je suis très strict.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5294557 #5688367

• I therefore repeat: we must be strict, but fair.

  Donc je le répète: nous devons être stricts, mais équitables.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1177574

• Aid limited to the strict minimum

  Aide limitée au strict minimum

  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 1120782

• Where it existed, it was administered under strict conditions.

  Lorsqu ' ils sont appliqués, ils font l ' objet de conditions strictes.

  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 18680989

• I'm very strict.

  Je suis très stricte.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5294557 #5688368

sévère

Used about 961 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 124 · UN documents ≈ 822).

• Their father is strict.

  Leur père est sévère.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10691316 #10691328

• Those words, “make her your mistress,” entered the heart of the strict young man like a sword.

  Ce mot, fais-en ta maîtresse, entra dans le coeur du sévère jeune homme comme une épée.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22620

• Unfortunately, however, the proposed timetable is too strict.

  Néanmoins le calendrier proposé est malheureusement trop sévère.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 86961

• (f) The particularly strict regime applied to prisoners serving life sentences;

  f) Un régime particulièrement sévère est appliqué aux détenus purgeant des peines d ' emprisonnement à perpétuité;

  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 10346400

• Is your father strict?

  Votre père est-il sévère ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #9857847 #2119312

More sentences

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

• I'm on a strict diet.

  Je suis au régime sec.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Toutanmemtan · checked, community translation · #5346804 #5682881

• When he was in the military, he conformed to the strict army rules.

  Lorsqu'il était dans l'armée, il se conformait à ses règles rigides.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1317041 #1317042

• I find that it's best to find a happy balance between originality and sticking to a strict standard.

  Je trouve que le mieux consiste à trouver un équilibre harmonieux entre l'originalité et la conformité à un canon rigoureux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slyfin and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4606238 #4609356

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