dette — French to English

How French dette is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: dette (54 671), dettes (10 685). By style: everyday 104 · literary 6 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 3 061 · legal and administrative 9 254 · UN documents 52 920.

debt

Used about 52 455 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 868 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 037 · UN documents ≈ 42 446). Forms: debt, debts. Meaning: debt in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai une dette envers lui.

  I owe him a debt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #249978 #3626713

• Mais voici: je payerai vos dettes, je ferai venir votre enfant, ou vous irez la rejoindre.

  But here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go to her.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4434

• Ému de compassion, le maître de ce serviteur le laissa aller, et lui remit la dette.

  The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:27

• La dette atteint trente milliards de dollars.

  The debt is USD 30 billion.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 411923

• Coût de la dette (avant impôts)

  Cost of debt (pre-tax)

  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 3485709

pay

Used about 1 106 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 1 103). Meaning: pay in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je paie mes propres dettes.

  I pay my own way.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CM · checked, community translation · #3729645 #3926739

• Comme ils n’avaient pas de quoi payer, il leur remit à tous deux leur dette. Lequel l’aimera le plus?

  When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 7:42

• Pour réduire davantage le montant de la dette, on sera obligé d ' attendre le versement d ' arriérés.

  Any further pay down of obligations would need to await arrearage payments.

  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 4709632

• Comme il n’avait pas de quoi payer, son maître ordonna qu’il fût vendu, lui, sa femme, ses enfants, et tout ce qu’il avait, et que la dette fût acquittée.

  But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:25

• En outre, le débiteur avait fait savoir au créancier qu ' il ne pouvait plus acquitter ses dettes.

  Further, the debtor communicated to the creditor that it could not further pay its dues.

  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 16690237

More sentences

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

• J'ai une dette envers toi.

  I'm indebted to you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and _undertoad · checked, community translation · #2267224 #5565852

• Peu importe les tours de magie comptables que tu utilises, ta société est toujours en dette.

  No matter which accounting magic you're using, your company is still indebted.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11039045 #11958402

• Peu importe les tours de magie comptables que vous utilisez, votre société est toujours en dette.

  No matter which accounting magic you're using, your company is still indebted.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11039045 #11958405

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