substance — English to French

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

What it means: substance in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: substance (56 674), substances (79 461). By style: everyday 28 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 6 183 · legal and administrative 47 019 · UN documents 82 892.

substance

Used about 85 171 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 3 800 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 631 · UN documents ≈ 39 719). Forms: substance, substances.

• Salt is a useful substance.

  Le sel est une substance utile.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Pharamp · checked, community translation · #25748 #395587

• That is the substance.

  Voilà pour la substance.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 884058

• Any single related substance

  Substance apparentée prise isolément

  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 3836778

• Substances < PDWS below site.

  Substances < PDWS en dessous du site.

  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 25181645

• Bleach is a caustic substance.

  L'eau de Javel est une substance caustique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #10613197 #11037583

matières

Used about 17 192 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 64 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 449 · UN documents ≈ 14 679).

• It is there that it is decided how to use and store substances and how to dispose of waste.

  C'est là que sont décidés le mode d'utilisation des matières, leur stockage et le mode d'élimination des déchets.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1734681

• Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates

  Matières pectiques, pectinates et pectates

  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 337915

• Elevated temperature substances 65 and 66

  Matières transportées à haute température 65 - 66

  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 8390902

• fabrics finished with normal dressings having a basis of amylaceous or similar substances;

  les tissus ayant subi les apprêts normaux de finissage à base de matières amylacées ou de matières analogues;

  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 4392097

• Packing of substances of Class 8, 32° (marginal 2801)

  Emballage des matières du 32° de la classe 8 (marginal 2801)

  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 3236928

fond

Used about 10 696 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 708 · legal and administrative ≈ 490 · UN documents ≈ 9 498).

• These are issues of substance not timetabling.

  Il s'agit là de questions de fond et non de calendrier.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1989314

• Some of the backlog appeals are, however, examined as to their substance.

  Une partie des recours en souffrance sont toutefois examinés sur le fond.

  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 3893772

• Ensuring a focus on substance and implementation

  3. Privilégier le fond et l ' application pratique

  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 13772135

• I therefore have nothing against the substance of the convention.

  Je n'ai donc rien à redire sur le fond.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1757290

• The Working Group approved the substance of paragraphs 21-23 unchanged.

  42. Le Groupe de travail a approuvé les paragraphes 21 à 23 quant au fond sans modification.

  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 20169099

More sentences

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

• This substance is in solid state.

  Cette matière est à l'état solide.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · #1256899 #12004065

• Unity, at the expense of substance, is useless.

  L'unité, aux dépends de l'essence, est inutile.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #13067306 #13163474

• Our Father that is in heaven, hallowed be your name; your kingdom come; your will be done, in earth as in heaven. Give to us this day our bread over other substance, and forgive to us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

  Notre Père qui es aux cieux ! Que ton nom soit sanctifié; que ton règne vienne; que ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel. Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain quotidien ; pardonne-nous nos offenses, comme nous aussi nous pardonnons à ceux qui nous ont offensés ; ne nous induis pas en tentation, mais délivre-nous du mal. Car c'est à toi qu'appartiennent, dans tous les siècles, le règne, la puissance et la gloire. Amen !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JeremyH and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #3937037 #7965993

Grammar

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