abus — French to English

How French abus is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: abus (48 746). By style: everyday 20 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 718 · legal and administrative 1 468 · UN documents 44 537.

abuse

Used about 43 958 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 925 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 193 · UN documents ≈ 40 826). Forms: abuse, abuses. Meaning: abuse in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est un abus de pouvoir.

  It's an abuse of power.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sisyphe and CK · checked, community translation · #4530062 #4534354

• «Septièmement: pour un fil courant, on retient dix sous au prisonnier dans l'atelier des tisserands; c'est un abus de l'entrepreneur, puisque la toile n'est pas moins bonne.

  “Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the worse for it.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28719

• Nous pourrions bien ouvrir la porte toute grande à des abus.

  Now we may be leaving the door wide open to abuse.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1349976

• Circonstances de l’abus

  Circumstances of the abuse

  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 5372485

• b) Situation mondiale en ce qui concerne l ' abus de drogues.

  (b) World situation with regard to drug abuse.

  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 17161317

power

Used about 1 043 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 113 · UN documents ≈ 928). Meaning: power in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Sous la présidence de Bouteflika, la concentration des pouvoirs entre ses mains a conduit à un abus de pouvoir.

  Under Bouteflika, the concentration of power led to abusive power.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #8550777 #11838072

• Il s'agit d'une question de pouvoir et d'abus de pouvoir.

  It is a question of power and how power is abused.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 486859

• Il a noté que l ' autorité antimonopole était un organisme quasi judiciaire et autonome qui connaissait des abus de position dominante et des pratiques commerciales restrictives.

  He noted that the Monopoly Control Authority was a quasi judicial and autonomous agency that dealt with unreasonable monopoly power and restrictive business activities.

  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 7521901

• Nous avons vu que sous Bouteflika, la concentration des pouvoirs a conduit à un abus de pouvoir.

  We have seen how, under the Bouteflika regime, the concentration of power led to abusive power.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #8550779 #11838073

• Dans nombre de sociétés, les femmes sont toujours victimes d'abus de pouvoir institutionnalisés, voire légalisés, de la part de mes homologues masculins.

  In a great many societies, the woman is still suffering at the hands of men as a result of institutionalised and sometimes legalised misuse of power.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 25525

alcohol

Used about 959 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 31 · UN documents ≈ 928). Meaning: alcohol in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L’abus d’alcool est dangereux pour la santé.

  Alcohol can damage your health.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · #11948789 #11948779

• Connaissance des règles en vigueur en matière d’abus d’alcool et de drogues.

  Knowledge of applicable rules on alcohol and drugs.

  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 5129796

• La même année, l ' indicateur d ' abus d ' alcool parmi les adolescents était de 827,6 pour 100 000.

  The figure for harmful consumption of alcohol by juveniles in 2001 was 827.6 per 100,000.

  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 11921665

prevent

Used about 61 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 61). Meaning: prevent in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Cependant, afin de prévenir les abus, il est nécessaire de limiter l'application de cette exemption à l'État membre dans lequel le petit exportateur est établi.

  However, in order to prevent misuse, it is necessary to limit application of that exemption to the Member State in which the small exporter is established.

  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 2126291

• Les autorités compétentes des États membres prennent les mesures nécessaires pour empêcher toute falsification, abus ou manipulation du système de données pour la surveillance radiologique individuelle.

  The competent authorities of the Member States shall take the measures necessary to prevent any forgery or misuse of, or tampering with, the data system for individual radiological monitoring.

  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 2862503

More sentences

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

• L'abus de drogues peut conduire à l'impulsivité et à l'agressivité.

  Abusing drugs can lead to impulsivity and aggression.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · #6324266 #6324329

• L'abus de somnifères est dangereux.

  Abusing sleeping pills is dangerous.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #7924194 #8537951

• Il a arrêté pour abus de fonds publics.

  He was arrested for abusing public funds.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #296244 #8485705

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