waste — English to French

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

What it means: waste in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: waste (64 937), wastes (20 862). By style: everyday 309 · literary 7 · biblical 77 · parliamentary 6 561 · legal and administrative 19 218 · UN documents 59 627.

déchets

Used about 74 102 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 4 716 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 817 · UN documents ≈ 51 553).

• Where should we dispose of the waste?

  Où devons-nous nous débarrasser des déchets ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #44504 #136490

• What are we to do with our wastes?

  Que faire de nos déchets?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1744824

• Crude, waste and scrap (Euratom)

  brut; déchets et débris (Euratom)

  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 3691847

• (e) Hazardous waste incineration

  e) Incinération des déchets dangereux

  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 12853416

• Waste disposal is a big problem in Algiers.

  Le traitement des déchets est un grand problème à Alger.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Mineyas · checked, community translation · #8589111 #8589145

dangereux

Used about 621 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 621).

• Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

  dangereux et de leur élimination

  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 12858854

More sentences

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

• Let's not waste this chance.

  Ne laissons pas passer cette occasion !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2007434 #3327579

• What a waste it would be if Tatoeba were to link nothing but sentences.

  Quel gâchis ce serait si Tatoeba ne devait lier rien d'autre que des phrases.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · #504880 #504870

• Don't waste ammunition.

  Ne gaspillez pas de munitions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5440627 #5920552

Grammar

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