torture — French to English

How French torture 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: torture (145 539), tortures (7 604). By style: everyday 21 · literary 6 · parliamentary 1 543 · legal and administrative 804 · UN documents 150 769.

torture

Used about 138 791 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 350 · legal and administrative ≈ 784 · UN documents ≈ 136 634). Meaning: torture in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce livre parle de la torture.

  This book is about torture.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and reblica · checked, community translation · #4748878 #4676137

• Enfant! torture-moi d'une main, mais caresse-moi de l'autre!

  Child! torture me with one hand, but caress me with the other!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5385

• On signale également des cas de torture.

  There are also reports of torture.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1780650

• Victimes de tortures ou de violences

  Victims of torture and violence

  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 2850798

• a) Article 180: Interdiction de la torture.

  (a) Clause 180: Prohibition of torture.

  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 13354359

cruel

Used about 1 571 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 571). Meaning: cruel in the Elamur Dictionary.

• la torture et autres peines

  and Other Cruel, Inhuman

  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 24124623

More sentences

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

• Ne te torture pas !

  Don't beat yourself up.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1860504 #2040896

• Mes pieds me sont une torture.

  My feet are killing me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2220500 #2222932

• Pourquoi me tortures-tu avec cela ?

  Why are you tormenting me with that?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · #1723795 #1718852

Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: French grammar · English grammar · translating between English and French · translating from French · translating into English.

About these examples

Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. Submit a better translation or example.

This page as Markdown: https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/fr-en/torture/