perte — French to English

How French perte is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: perte (43 537), pertes (55 010). By style: everyday 181 · literary 7 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 4 301 · legal and administrative 20 992 · UN documents 73 038.

loss

Used about 79 079 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 97 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 002 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 149 · UN documents ≈ 57 822). Forms: loss, losses. Meaning: loss in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il vend à perte.

  He's selling at a loss.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #13731113 #13731093

• Ceci commença la perte de la bataille.

  This began the loss of the battle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7153

• Mais ces choses qui étaient pour moi des gains, je les ai regardées comme une perte, à cause de Christ.

  However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 3:7

• Il y a perte de souveraineté.

  There is a loss of sovereignty.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1654984

• la perte de revenus encourue;

  the loss of revenue incurred;

  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 1013869

More sentences

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

• C'est une perte totale de temps.

  That's an utter waste of time.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #3281682 #465058

• L'espéranto est une perte de temps.

  Esperanto is a waste of time.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #6892246 #6892325

• Ça a été une perte de temps.

  It was a waste of time.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2169236 #4557552

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