torture — English to French

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

What it means: torture in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: torture (148 984), tortures (339). By style: everyday 21 · literary 10 · parliamentary 1 569 · legal and administrative 810 · UN documents 146 913.

torture

Used about 143 049 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 438 · legal and administrative ≈ 797 · UN documents ≈ 140 792). Forms: torture, tortures.

• This book is about torture.

  Ce livre parle de la torture.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by reblica and Amastan · checked, community translation · #4748878 #4676137

• Child! torture me with one hand, but caress me with the other!

  Enfant! torture-moi d'une main, mais caresse-moi de l'autre!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5385

• There are also reports of torture.

  On signale également des cas de torture.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1780650

• Victims of torture and violence

  Victimes de tortures ou de violences

  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 2850798

• He imprisons and tortures at Guantanamo.

  Il incarcère et torture à Guantanamo.

  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 16561926

ou

Used about 3 062 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 3 061).

• I don't know who is the biggest asshole, whether it's Vladimir Putin or Bashar al-Assad: one murders journalists and causes massacres in Chechnya and Georgia, the other tortures children. How can their wives even stand them?

  Je ne sais pas qui est le plus gros salopard, de Vladimir Poutine ou de Bashar Al Assad : l'un assassine les journalistes et a saigné la Tchétchénie et la Géorgie, l'autre fait torturer des enfants. Comment les femmes de ces mecs peuvent les supporter ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lucasmg123 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #9953076 #1582006

• " Any public official who personally tortures or orders the torture of accused persons shall be punished by a term of 3 to 10 years ' imprisonment. "

  Tout agent de l ' État qui aura torturé ou donné l ' ordre de torturer un prévenu sera puni d ' un emprisonnement de 3 à 10 ans. > > .

  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 10439072

• “Any public official who personally tortures or orders the torture of accused persons shall be punished by a term of 3 to 10 years ' imprisonment.”

  Tout fonctionnaire ou officier public qui aura torturé ou donné l ' ordre de torturer un prévenu sera puni d ' un emprisonnement de trois à dix ans. "

  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 3747677

traitements

Used about 1 530 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 530).

• view of this statement and allegations of ill-treatment already undergone, fears were expressed that he might be subjected to further torture or ill-treatment.

  Ces propos et les mauvais traitements déjà subis par l ' intéressé laissaient craindre qu ' il ne fût à nouveau torturé et maltraité.

  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 1964634

More sentences

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

• In the U.S., it is illegal to torture people in order to get information from them.

  Aux États-Unis, il est illégal de torturer des gens pour en obtenir des informations.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and Aiji · checked, community translation · #682202 #8314937

• They're going to torture Tom.

  Elles vont torturer Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3520379 #5647317

• They're going to torture Tom.

  Ils vont torturer Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3520379 #5647316

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