retard — French to English

How French retard 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: retard (42 175), retarde (802), retards (19 024). By style: everyday 949 · literary 12 · parliamentary 5 389 · legal and administrative 5 377 · UN documents 50 274.

delays

Used about 39 236 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 3 256 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 145 · UN documents ≈ 31 770). Forms: delay, delaying, delays.

• Quelle était la cause de son retard ?

  What was the cause of his delay?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by genes1s and _undertoad · checked, community translation · #2259878 #13338088

• —Mais, enfin, vous n'êtes pas sujet à éprouver des retards considérables?

  "But are you not subject to considerable delays?"

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 797

• Cela retarde les débats.

  That delays the debates.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795790

• Retards dans la procédure de recouvrement

  Delays in the recovery process

  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 3808765

• + Le train arrive en retard.

  + the train arrives with delay.

  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 9817822

late

Used about 3 167 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 648 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 374 · legal and administrative ≈ 747 · UN documents ≈ 1 397). Meaning: late in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le train est en retard.

  The train's late.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #6121031 #6359879

• --Nous avons vingt minutes de retard, et le train ne s'arrête pas.

  “We are twenty minutes late, and we shall not stop.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2487

• Ce document arrive avec beaucoup de retard, j'en suis conscient.

  This is coming late, really late.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1417439

• INTÉRÊTS DE RETARD ET AMENDES

  INTEREST ON LATE PAYMENTS AND FINES

  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 3786630

• Non réalisé en raison du retard dans la mise en place de la Section de la justice

  Not done owing to late establishment of the Justice Section

  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 14499715

More sentences

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

• L’horloge a cinq minutes de retard.

  The clock is five minutes behind.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · #12415902 #12415904

• Je me demande si elle acceptera un cadeau d'anniversaire en retard.

  I wonder if she'll accept a belated birthday present.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and darinmex · checked, community translation · #695185 #695190

• Il sera en retard pour la réunion.

  He won't be in time for the meeting.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #294615 #131736

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