violent — English to French

How English violent is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: violent in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: violent (23 332), violents (43). By style: everyday 64 · literary 24 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 1 375 · legal and administrative 617 · UN documents 21 285.

violent

Used about 19 707 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 61 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 146 · legal and administrative ≈ 463 · UN documents ≈ 18 010). Forms: violence, violent, violente, violents.

• Tom wasn't violent.

  Tom n'était pas violent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Jio15 · checked, community translation · #2244732 #2532037

• A violent gesture finished the sentence.

  Un geste violent acheva sa pensée.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 139

• not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

  Il faut qu’il ne soit ni adonné au vin, ni violent, mais indulgent, pacifique, désintéressé.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 3:3

• Let us honour his memory and his non-violent protest in this House.

  Respectons ici sa mémoire et son action non violente.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 619117

• Violent (high speed) winds.

  Vents violents (grande vitesse).

  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 3052228

More sentences

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

• We have to be prepared to cope with violent storms.

  Nous devons nous préparer à faire face à de violentes tempêtes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #238498 #3452268

• John had a violent quarrel with his wife.

  John s'est violemment disputé avec sa femme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Cocorico · checked, community translation · #52606 #11813

• When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

  Et comme les païens et les Juifs, de concert avec leurs chefs, se mettaient en mouvement pour les outrager et les lapider,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 14:5

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