substance — French to English

How French substance is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: substance (38 604), substances (79 750). By style: everyday 32 · parliamentary 6 047 · legal and administrative 51 560 · UN documents 60 715.

substance

Used about 90 276 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 4 031 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 115 · UN documents ≈ 41 109). Forms: substance, substances. Meaning: substance in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le sel est une substance utile.

  Salt is a useful substance.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pharamp and Luornu · checked, community translation · #25748 #395587

• Voilà pour la substance.

  That is the substance.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 884058

• Substance apparentée prise isolément

  Any single related substance

  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 3836778

• Breastmilk as a unique substance;

  Breast milk as a unique substance

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• L'eau de Javel est une substance caustique.

  Bleach is a caustic substance.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #10613197 #11037583

chemical

Used about 4 047 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 148 · UN documents ≈ 1 897). Meaning: chemical in the Elamur Dictionary.

• En substance, un produit chimique médicinal n'est rien d'autre qu'une molécule qui permet un changement thérapeutique dans la physiologie humaine.

  In essence, a medicinal chemical is nothing more than a molecule that enables a therapeutic change in human physiology.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10589224 #10589228

• L’indication des numéros CAS vise à permettre l’identification d’une substance ou d’un mélange chimique spécifique, indépendamment de la nomenclature.

  CAS numbers are shown to assist in identifying a particular chemical or mixture, irrespective of nomenclature.

  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 2616842

• (Fournir, si possible, la liste des pays en provenance desquels la substance chimique a été importée)

  (To the extend practicable provide a list of the countries from which the chemical has been imported)

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• Cela peut résulter du fait que la substance d’essai exerce un effet inhibiteur sur l’inoculum à la concentration à laquelle elle est testée.

  One possible cause is that the test chemical is inhibitory to the inoculum at the concentration at which it is applied in the test.

  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 3274592

• Plusieurs autres représentants favorables à cet avis ont dit ne pas pouvoir appuyer l’inscription de cette substance sans autre élément de preuve de sa nocivité.

  Expressing support for that view, several others said they could not support listing the chemical absent further evidence of its harmfulness.

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use

Used about 3 921 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 126 · UN documents ≈ 3 795). Meaning: use in the Elamur Dictionary.

• En dépit de l'augmentation de la consommation d'énergie, les émissions de ces deux substances ont diminué de manière drastique.

  Despite the increase in energy use, the emission from these two chemicals has fallen dramatically.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1844859

• production et utilisation substances annexe I

  Ban on Prod. and use annex I

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• Ces installations de réfrigération sont en soi des systèmes fermés, dont les produits réfrigérants n' ont pas encore de substances de substitution concrètes.

  These refrigeration units are self-contained cooling systems and use a coolant for which no alternative is available at the present time.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2043354

• Encourager l ' utilisation des cartes de santé et de sécurité du Programme international sur la sécurité des substances chimiques.

  Encourage the use of IPCS health and safety cards.

  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 12587027

• b) En inscrivant seulement le cpentaBDE pour mettre fin à la production et à l ' utilisation de cette substance.

  List c-PentaBDE in order to eliminate the production and use of c-PentaBDE.

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annex

Used about 1 265 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 265). Meaning: annex in the Elamur Dictionary.

• iii) Co-avantages des meilleures techniques disponibles pour les substances chimiques de l ' Annexe C

  (iii) Co-benefits of best available techniques for chemicals listed in Annex C

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• < < ou par le potentiel de réchauffement global spécifié pour cette substance à l ' Annexe C ou à l ' Annexe F; > >

  " , or by the global warming potential specified in respect of it in Annex C or Annex F; "

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hazardous

Used about 632 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 632). Meaning: hazardous in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les polybromobiphényles sont inscrits à l ' Annexe VIII de la Convention de Bâle en tant que substance dangereuse sans autre spécification.

  Under the Basel Convention, PBBs are classified as hazardous in Annex VIII without further specification.

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More sentences

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

• Une substance visqueuse coulait du tuyau.

  Slime was oozing out of the pipe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #9938758 #12663221

• Plus les mots qu'il employait étaient ronflants, plus difficile il devenait d'y trouver de la substance.

  The bigger the words he used, the harder it was to find anything in them.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · #283989 #478650

• L'amiante est une substance cancérigène.

  Asbestos is a carcinogen.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · #12378903 #13088412

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