malgré — French to English

How French malgré 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: malgré (69 155). By style: everyday 138 · literary 18 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 8 409 · legal and administrative 2 773 · UN documents 57 783.

despite

Used about 50 555 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 256 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 906 · UN documents ≈ 43 337). Meaning: despite in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Vous êtes venus malgré mon interdiction.

  You came despite my ban.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and lohnesinpr · checked, community translation · #4097981 #5352342

• Fix regarda attentivement le gentleman, et, quoi qu'il en eût, malgré ses préventions, en dépit du combat qui se livrait en lui, il baissa les yeux devant ce regard calme et franc.

  Fix gazed attentively at Mr. Fogg, and, despite his suspicions and of the struggle which was going on within him, he lowered his eyes before that calm and frank look.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2594

• Malgré ces appels, les menaces américaines se concrétisent.

  Despite our appeals the Americans have carried out their threats.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1965563

• Ventes et production en baisse malgré des commandes à la hausse

  Decreasing sales and production despite increasing orders

  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 3672665

• Ces réformes devaient se poursuivre malgré l ' incertitude du climat économique international.

  Those reforms had to be continued despite the uncertain international economic environment.

  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 19806156

spite

Used about 5 682 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 701 · legal and administrative ≈ 116 · UN documents ≈ 4 815). Meaning: spite in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je riais malgré moi.

  I laughed in spite of myself.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CM · checked, community translation · #246230 #329809

• —Mais voilà une ingénieuse hypothèse! m'écriai-je un peu malgré moi.

  "Upon my word, this is a very clever hypothesis," I exclaimed, in spite rather of myself.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 527

• Si, malgré cela, vous ne m’écoutez point et si vous me résistez,

  “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 26:27

• Malgré cette réserve, nous avons voté pour la résolution.

  In spite of this, however, we have decided to vote in favour of the resolution.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977145

• Cette comparaison a confirmé que la marge de dumping déterminée pour les exportations vers l'Union était raisonnable malgré les très faibles volumes des ventes.

  This further confirmed that the dumping margin determined for exports to the Union was reasonable in spite of the very low volumes of sales.

  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 4939949

More sentences

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

• Malgré toutes mes objections, elle a quitté la maison.

  Even after all of my objections, she left home.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · #388573 #393251

• Ils vinrent malgré la pluie.

  They came even though it was raining.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Akenaseryan and CK · checked, community translation · #3733837 #5689173

• Malgré son opulence, il est malheureux.

  For all his wealth, he is unhappy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · #18521 #431506

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