prison — French to English

How French prison is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: prison (49 096), prisons (26 978). By style: everyday 358 · literary 25 · biblical 98 · parliamentary 2 213 · legal and administrative 734 · UN documents 72 646.

prison

Used about 64 695 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 237 · literary ≈ 23 · biblical ≈ 66 · parliamentary ≈ 1 706 · legal and administrative ≈ 612 · UN documents ≈ 62 052). Forms: prison, prisoners, prisons. Meaning: prison in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La prison l'a-t-il changé?

  Has prison changed him?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CM · checked, community translation · #715590 #3864728

• --En prison, dit-il.

  “In prison,” said he.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6597

• et il envoya décapiter Jean dans la prison.

  and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 14:10

• Troisièmement, les prisons ne sont pas des hôtels.

  Thirdly, prisons are not hotels.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052061

• Autres (par exemple: prison)

  Other (e.g. prison)

  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 1520728

sentenced

Used about 3 163 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 23 · legal and administrative ≈ 107 · UN documents ≈ 3 027).

• Ayant été convaincu de meurtre, il fut condamné à la prison à vie.

  Having been convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #244935 #8242

• Il risque d'être condamné en octobre ou novembre à une peine allant jusqu'à 25 ans de prison, et il faut vraiment agir maintenant.

  He is likely to be sentenced in October or November to up to 25 years' imprisonment, and now is really the time to act.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1636745

• En juillet 2011, elle a condamné d'autres militants à des peines de prison de dix jours.

  In July 2011, she sentenced other activists to 10 days in jail.

  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 2716812

• Le troisième défendeur a été condamné à la prison à perpétuité et à 20 ans de détention.

  The third defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 20 years in jail.

  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 722036

• Toutefois, il est difficile de savoir s ' il a été placé en garde à vue ou effectivement condamné à une peine de prison.

  Nevertheless, it is not clear whether he was kept in custody or actually sentenced to imprisonment.

  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 5561923

years

Used about 2 293 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 2 270).

• Cela fait douze ans qu'elle oppose une résistance pacifique et elle n'a toujours rien obtenu. Elle est assignée à résidence et ses partisans sont jetés en prison.

  She has now been in peaceful protest for twelve years and still she is being sidelined and placed under house arrest, and her people are being arrested.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 88790

• L ' article 110 punit de trois ans de prison la restriction illégale de la liberté d ' autrui.

  557. Article 110, the illegal restraint of freedom is punished with three years of imprisonment.

  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 11752875

• Si l ' infraction a été commise contre des enfants, la peine se situe entre trois et quinze ans (de prison).

  If the criminal offence was perpetrated against children the sentence is between 3 - 15 years

  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 22527846

• Suite à la modification du plaidoyer, l ' Accusation a retiré toutes les autres accusations portées contre l ' accusée et requis une peine de prison comprise entre 15 et 25 ans.

  As a consequence of the change of plea, the Prosecution withdrew all other charges against the accused and sought a sentence in the range of 15-25 years.

  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 10028510

jail

Used about 241 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · parliamentary ≈ 138). Meaning: jail in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai fini en prison.

  I ended up in jail.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #5859302 #7763245

• S’il les partage, pourquoi M. Khodorkovsky est-il en prison?

  If it does, why is Mr Khodorkovsky in jail?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 525740

• Je vais te mettre en prison.

  I'll throw you in jail.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · #6375852 #6375863

• En ce moment même, des dizaines de milliers de personnes sont en prison et des dizaines sont mortes.

  At this very moment, there are tens of thousands of people in jail and dozens have died.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 736450

• Je n'ai jamais été en prison.

  I've never been in jail.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #11874990 #13393371

More sentences

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

• Le palais était une prison dorée pour la princesse.

  The palace was a gilded cage for the princess.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #3767596 #10148474

• Christophe Colomb fut explorateur, non pas parce qu'il aimait la mer, mais parce qu'il détestait les prisons espagnoles.

  Christopher Columbus wasn't an explorer because he loved the sea. He was an explorer because he hated Spanish jails.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · #547067 #547071

• Ils mirent les mains sur eux, et ils les jetèrent en prison jusqu’au lendemain; car c’était déjà le soir.

  They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 4:3

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