violence — French to English

How French violence is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: violence (250 451), violences (54 696). By style: everyday 95 · literary 12 · biblical 84 · parliamentary 8 973 · legal and administrative 1 728 · UN documents 294 255.

violence

Used about 255 166 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 92 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 8 319 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 494 · UN documents ≈ 245 213). Meaning: violence in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je ne supporte pas la violence.

  I can't stand violence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pfpillon and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #4526784 #4526920

• D'un côté le brigandage, la fraude, le dol, la violence, la lubricité, l'homicide, toutes les espèces du sacrilège, toutes les variétés de l'attentat; de l'autre une seule chose, l'innocence.

  On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, one thing only, innocence.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12546

• Je n’ai pourtant commis aucune violence, Et ma prière fut toujours pure.

  although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 16:17

• Violences à l'encontre des femmes - Programme «Daphné»

  Violence against women - Daphne programme

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1963024

• Violence ou menaces domestiques

  Domestic violence or threat

  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 1669443

sexual

Used about 18 502 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 93 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 · UN documents ≈ 18 391). Meaning: sexual in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Leurs droits ont été bafoués à de multiples reprises : viol, violences sexuelles, mariages forcés et prostitution.

  They have suffered a multitude of human rights abuses: rape, sexual assault, forced marriages and prostitution.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2050210

• Une attention particulière doit être portée aux besoins des détenus qui ont subi des violences physiques, mentales ou sexuelles.

  Particular attention shall be paid to the needs of prisoners who have experienced physical, mental or sexual abuse.

  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 4226897

• Les articles ci-après du Code pénal sanctionnent les violences sexuelles sur mineurs :

  The Criminal Code provides for penalties establishing liability for sexual abuse of minors in the following articles:

  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 13419094

• Le Rapporteur spécial a reçu des témoignages de violences sexuelles utilisées comme méthode de guerre contre des femmes tutsies.

  The Special Rapporteur received testimony on the sexual assault of Tutsi women as a war tactic.

  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 4510043

• Le personnel des Nations Unies est particulièrement exposé aux prises d ' otages, aux enlèvements et aux violences sexuelles.

  4. The security of United Nations personnel continues to be compromised by numerous incidents of hostage-taking, kidnapping and sexual assault.

  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 10043921

against

Used about 3 068 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 3 065).

• Ils militent contre les violences aux animaux.

  They're against animal abuse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source_VOA · checked, community translation · #680055 #1036532

• Ne me livre pas au bon plaisir de mes adversaires, Car il s’élève contre moi de faux témoins Et des gens qui ne respirent que la violence.

  Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 27:12

• Les membres du SPT ont assisté aux arrestations depuis leur hôtel et ont constaté que la police et l ' armée agissaient avec une grande violence contre les manifestants.

  Members of the Subcommittee could see from their hotel how the police and army went about the arrests, with extensive use of force against the demonstrators.

  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 22293962

victims

Used about 3 067 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 3 065).

• Il y a trop de victimes de violences policières.

  There are too many victims of police brutality.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · #3727290 #11255429

• L ' immense majorité des femmes incarcérées a été victime de violences, soit à l ' âge adulte, soit dans l ' enfance.

  The vast majority of women prisoners are victims of violent crime, particularly abuse as an adult and/or child.

  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 22892555

domestic

Used about 3 065 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 065). Meaning: domestic in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Plus d ' un cinquième des violences commises en Namibie se produisent entre personnes entretenant des liens domestiques.

  More than one fifth of all violent crimes in Namibia occur within domestic relationships.

  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 13450663

women

Used about 93 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 93).

• Les femmes sont doublement victimes des conflits armés car elles sont exposées aux violences et aux abus sexuels qui ont parfois été utilisés comme arme de guerre.

  Women are double victims of armed conflicts since they are also subjected to rapes and sexual abuse, which have sometimes been used as weapons of war.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 121052

More sentences

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

• Le peuple du pays se livre à la violence, commet des rapines, opprime le malheureux et l’indigent, foule l’étranger contre toute justice.

  The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 22:29

• Les enfants d’Israël crièrent à l’Éternel, car Jabin avait neuf cents chars de fer, et il opprimait avec violence les enfants d’Israël depuis vingt ans.

  The children of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.

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

• Ils ne savent pas agir avec droiture, dit l’Éternel, Ils entassent dans leurs palais les produits de la violence et de la rapine.

  “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 3:10

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