plainte — French to English

How French plainte 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: plainte (40 235), plaintes (53 845). By style: everyday 96 · literary 3 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 2 489 · legal and administrative 5 871 · UN documents 85 605.

complaint

Used about 74 426 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 66 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 970 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 504 · UN documents ≈ 66 879). Forms: complaint, complaints. Meaning: complaint in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai une plainte.

  I have a complaint.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #4999987 #5943495

• --Le bureau est fermé, dit Gavroche, je ne reçois plus de plaintes.

  “The office is closed,” said Gavroche, “I do not receive any more complaints.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20540

• Est-ce contre un homme que se dirige ma plainte? Et pourquoi mon âme ne serait-elle pas impatiente?

  As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:4

• Nous n'avons cependant jamais reçu de plainte dans ce cas particulier.

  But we have not had a complaint in this particular case.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1663554

• Introduction d'une plainte

  Submission of a complaint

  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 2940431

received

Used about 953 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 61 · UN documents ≈ 892).

• Vu le grand nombre de plaintes reçues, la Commission a provisoirement conclu qu’un examen individuel compliquerait indûment sa tâche et l’empêcherait d’achever son enquête en temps utile.

  Given the high number of the claims received, the Commission has provisionally concluded that individual examinations would be unduly burdensome and would prevent completion of the investigation in good time.

  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 2935911

• 35. M. de Gouttes voudrait savoir quelles mesures ont été prises pour renforcer le mandat du Médiateur et combien de plaintes pour discrimination raciale lui ont été adressées.

  He asked what measures had been taken to strengthen the mandate of the Ombudsman. How many cases of racial discrimination had been received by the Ombudsman?

  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 27764129

More sentences

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

• Ils ont décidé de porter plainte.

  They decided to press charges.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ketsia and felidad · checked, community translation · #10666027 #12062766

• Ma camarade de chambrée s'est plainte du bruit.

  My roommate complained about the noise.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1663062 #1663758

• S'il continue à vous menacer, portez plainte.

  If he keeps threatening you, then you should go to the police.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by arnxy20 and arnxy20 · checked, community translation · #1488263 #2426071

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