catastrophe — French to English

How French catastrophe 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: catastrophe (36 191), catastrophes (59 528). By style: everyday 35 · literary 13 · parliamentary 6 512 · legal and administrative 1 638 · UN documents 87 521.

disaster

Used about 88 153 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 5 494 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 502 · UN documents ≈ 81 139). Forms: disaster, disasters. Meaning: disaster in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce fut une catastrophe absolue.

  It was an utter disaster.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #5041912 #12005474

• Objet : Catastrophes maritimes survenues récemment

  Subject: Recent maritime disasters

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409380

• Point 3.2. Catastrophes et réactions

  Agenda 3.2 Disasters and Response

  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 867930

• sur la réduction des risques de catastrophe

  on Disaster Risk Reduction

  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 30039166

• Tu cours à la catastrophe.

  You're racing toward disaster.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RCendre and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #11953795 #11944723

catastrophe

Used about 4 261 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 543 · legal and administrative ≈ 51 · UN documents ≈ 3 647). Meaning: catastrophe in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est une catastrophe.

  This is a catastrophe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · #2547047 #5318831

• Nous avons dit la catastrophe du chemin d'Ohain.

  We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7689

• Toutefois, nous ne sommes pas loin d'une catastrophe.

  However, a catastrophe is not far away.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1326135

• Risque de catastrophe en non-vie

  Non-life catastrophe risk

  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 3766250

• Nous ne pouvons pas rester insensibles face à cette catastrophe humanitaire.

  We cannot remain unaffected by this humanitarian catastrophe.

  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 21597264

natural

Used about 912 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 912). Meaning: natural in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le risque national − catastrophes naturelles et risques liés aux secteurs public et privé;

  Country - natural hazards and public and private sector risk;

  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 24594857

risk

Used about 912 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 912). Meaning: risk in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)

  Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)

  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 26192476

More sentences

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

• Il partit en catastrophe.

  He went away in a hurry.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · #295216 #7425366

• La fête d'anniversaire de Yanni a été une catastrophe.

  Yanni's birthday went horribly wrong.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9839027 #12184824

• Il est parti en catastrophe.

  He went away in a hurry.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · #295216 #7425348

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