prisons — French to English

How French prisons is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: prisons (26 978). By style: everyday 11 · literary 6 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 786 · legal and administrative 123 · UN documents 26 051.

prisons

Used about 24 706 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 688 · legal and administrative ≈ 123 · UN documents ≈ 23 880). Forms: prison, prisoners, prisons.

• Les prisons ne sont pas des hôtels.

  Prisons are not hotels.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #12901216 #12902137

• À la bastille Saint-Antoine, au Palais de Justice de Paris, au Louvre, ces édifices souterrains étaient des prisons.

  At the fortress of Saint-Antoine, at the Palais de Justice of Paris, at the Louvre, these subterranean edifices were prisons.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5141

• 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

• Chef de l'organisation des prisons iraniennes.

  Head of Iran’s Prisons Organisation.

  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 2242524

• Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia Prisons Service;

  Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia Prisons Service;

  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 18509246

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

• 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

• sous les coups, dans les prisons, dans les troubles, dans les travaux, dans les veilles, dans les jeûnes;

  in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 6:5

• Formation embryonnaire des crimes dans l'incubation des prisons

  Javert’s triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been so.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18836

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