contre — French to English

How French contre is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: contre (870 116), contres (127). By style: everyday 1 008 · literary 104 · biblical 1 095 · parliamentary 56 664 · legal and administrative 37 107 · UN documents 774 265.

against

Used about 424 495 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 535 · literary ≈ 65 · biblical ≈ 844 · parliamentary ≈ 31 368 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 616 · UN documents ≈ 379 067).

• Est-elle contre toi ?

  Is she against you?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and rul · checked, community translation · #13436464 #12717950

• Résister seul contre deux?

  Could I stand against the two?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3316

• Ils ouvrent la bouche contre nous, Tous ceux qui sont nos ennemis.

  “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:46

• Nous avons donc voté contre la recommandation.

  We therefore voted against.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 857534

• A, par le passé, orchestré la violence contre les dissidents.

  History of directing violence against dissidents.

  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 2363895

protection

Used about 75 083 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 012 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 484 · UN documents ≈ 72 587). Meaning: protection in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Nous y disposons d' un système de protection contre les incendies qui n' utilise aucune de ces substances dangereuses.

  We have a fire protection system of this kind there which manages without any of these dangerous substances.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2043239

• Services de protection contres les matières toxiques

  Toxic substances protection services

  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 1497234

• j) Déclaration sur la protection de toutes les personnes contres les disparitions forcées

  (j) Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

  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 1197106

• Dispositifs avant de protection anti-encastrement et leur montage; protection contre l'encastrement à l'avant

  Front underrun protective devices (FUPDs) and their installation; front underrun protection (FUP)

  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 3583188

• Cette loi établit une protection spécifique contres les risques pendant la grossesse ;

  It also improves the regime for the granting of leave and unpaid leave for family reasons and establishes specific protection for risks during pregnancy;

  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 10641657

measures

Used about 16 026 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 024 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 937 · UN documents ≈ 8 065).

• Nous devons également mener une action contre ce phénomène.

  In this area too we must take measures.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1634310

• Les mesures de lutte contre la maladie prévues à l'article 74, paragraphe 1, sont:

  The disease control measures provided for in Article 74(1) shall be:

  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 3964522

• 127. Outre l ' intervention urgente, le Gouvernement australien finance une série de programmes et de mesures qui aident directement ou indirectement à prévenir les sévices contres les enfants.

  127. In addition to the Emergency Response, the Australian Government funds a range of programs and measures that directly or indirectly assist in the prevention of child 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 24303180

• Une équipe du ministère de l'agriculture est venue en Europe la semaine dernière pour se faire une idée des mesures de lutte contres les épidémies dans les pays membres.

  Following this invitation, a team from the US Department of Agriculture came to Europe last week, to give itself a picture of the measures for combatting epidemics in the Member States.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1788072

• La directive 2002/60/CE du Conseil [3] établit les mesures minimales de lutte contre la peste porcine africaine à appliquer dans l'Union.

  Council Directive 2002/60/EC [3] lays down minimum measures to be applied within the Union for the control of African swine fever.

  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 4191335

More sentences

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

• Vous devez agir contre lui.

  You need to sue him.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13328632 #13328592

• Avez-vous reçu votre vaccin contre la grippe saisonnière ?

  Did you receive your flu shot this season?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · #9849630 #9869884

• Ne sois pas en colère contre moi s'il te plaît.

  Please don't be angry at me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and CM · checked, community translation · #6944410 #6944443

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