suffering — English to French

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

What it means: suffering in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: suffering (31 889), sufferings (958). By style: everyday 98 · literary 19 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 3 613 · legal and administrative 859 · UN documents 28 231.

souffre

Used about 22 369 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 70 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 2 522 · legal and administrative ≈ 340 · UN documents ≈ 19 409). Forms: souffrance, souffrances, souffre.

• Why are we suffering?

  Pourquoi souffre-t-on ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and megamanenm · checked, community translation · #5752189 #12356900

• “Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while.

  --Oui, monsieur, il y a longtemps que le peuple souffre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 880

• For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

  Car, de même que les souffrances de Christ abondent en nous, de même notre consolation abonde par Christ.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 1:5

• I am also suffering.

  Je souffre de la même chose.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 70949

• v. The actual suffering of the animal in the procedure should be reported.

  La souffrance réelle de l'animal dans la procédure doit être prise en compte.

  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 2540806

peuple

Used about 995 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 113 · UN documents ≈ 882).

• The Finno-Ugric Mari people are currently suffering severe discrimination.

  Le peuple Mari finno-ougrien est actuellement victime d’une grave discrimination.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 652326

• It was as an impoverished and suffering people that we greeted our liberation.

  C ' est en peuple appauvri et meurtri que nous avons salué notre libération.

  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 1648251

• They deserve all the support we can give to them and to the suffering people of Zimbabwe.

  Ils méritent de recevoir tout le soutien que nous pouvons leur apporter et que nous pouvons apporter au peuple du Zimbabwe qui souffre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 426775

• Let us remember why the Iraqi people are suffering in this way and the fate of the efforts which have been made to help them.

  N ' oublions pas les raisons pour lesquelles le peuple iraquien souffre de cette façon et le sort réservé aux efforts déployés pour l ' aider.

  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 2522431

• While we all sit at home, replete after a good supper, our TV screens show us depressing new evidence of the sufferings of a people plagued by drought and hunger.

  Pendant que nous savourons, le ventre plein, notre repas du soir, les nouvelles affligeantes d'un peuple éprouvé par la sécheresse et la faim passent à la télévision.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 46423

More sentences

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

• Tom is suffering from cancer.

  Tom a le cancer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2276370 #7414887

• Nothing makes us greater than a great suffering.

  Rien ne nous rend si grands qu'une grande douleur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #910347 #909101

• I can't bear to see animals suffering.

  Je ne supporte pas de voir des animaux souffrir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7863755 #7967392

Grammar

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