towards — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: towards (212 926). By style: everyday 116 · literary 138 · parliamentary 19 376 · legal and administrative 8 338 · UN documents 184 958.

vers

Used about 32 752 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 70 · literary ≈ 109 · parliamentary ≈ 4 037 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 563 · UN documents ≈ 26 973).

• He rode towards the sea.

  Il chevaucha vers la mer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Bruno · checked, community translation · #8293727 #507998

• Suddenly she turned towards him,—

  Tout à coup elle se tourna vers lui:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4741

• Globalisation itself is the result of our march towards the future.

  La mondialisation est le résultat de notre marche vers le futur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 994970

• Extension towards north-west Spain

  Extension vers le nord-ouest de l'Espagne

  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 870015

• limit towards yellow x < 0.500

  limite vers le jaune x < 0,500

  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 19253396

égard

Used about 9 331 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 404 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 216 · UN documents ≈ 7 707).

• His affection towards me has decreased.

  Son affection à mon égard a diminué.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1329281 #1331490

• In this context, we should insist on a tough and principled position towards the regime of President Lukashenko in Belarus.

  Dans ce contexte, nous devrions insister sur une position dure et de principe à l'égard du régime du président Loukachenko en Biélorussie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1557186

• to assist the Union in further developing a comprehensive policy towards the South Caucasus;

  d'aider l'Union à poursuivre l'élaboration d'une politique globale à l'égard du Caucase du Sud;

  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 2803207

• National surveys on attitudes towards violence in the community will be conducted from 2012.

  Des enquêtes nationales concernant l ' attitude à l ' égard de la violence dans la société seront lancées en 2012.

  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 25453242

• As a rule, not only in humans, but also in animals, "sexual display" occurs, consciously or unconsciously, towards individuals of the opposite sex.

  En principe, pas seulement chez les humains mais aussi chez les animaux, une « parade sexuelle » survient, consciemment ou inconsciemment, à l'égard des individus de sexe opposé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1245054 #1245721

envers

Used about 5 654 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 615 · legal and administrative ≈ 174 · UN documents ≈ 3 853).

• I am not insolent towards them.

  Je ne suis pas insolent envers eux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CarpeLanam and Amastan · checked, community translation · #6681318 #1944440

• Jean Valjean’s generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him.

  La générosité de Jean Valjean envers lui Javert l'accablait.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28583

• I believe we should react very forcefully indeed to any instance of aggression towards Taiwan.

  Je pense aussi que nous devons bien entendu réagir énergiquement à toute agression envers Taïwan.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1085242

• The personal financial and disciplinary liability of its servants towards the Agency shall be governed by the relevant rules applying to the staff of the Agency.

  La responsabilité financière et disciplinaire personnelle des agents de l'Agence envers celle-ci est régie par les dispositions pertinentes applicables au personnel de l'Agence.

  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 1081297

• (j) Attitude displayed towards colleagues while performing the duties of judge;

  j) Son attitude envers des confrères dans l ' accomplissement de ses fonctions,

  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 22306306

More sentences

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

• Our dog is not fearful, but suspicious towards strangers.

  Notre chien n'est pas peureux, mais méfiant avec les étrangers.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mutskt and genes1s · checked, community translation · #11213418 #13329454

• He tossed the ball towards the wall.

  Il a lancé la balle en direction du mur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by baisong and lbdx · checked, community translation · #599705 #11910865

• Dan had an insatiable appetite towards violence.

  Dan avait un appétit insatiable pour la violence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #4009524 #4009560

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