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# attack — English to French

How English *attack* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [attack in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/attack/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: attack (29 174), attacks (47 211). By style: everyday 165 · literary 23 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 5 941 · legal and administrative 1 881 · UN documents 68 361.

## attaque

Used about 36 646 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 83 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 2 661 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 136 · UN documents ≈ 32 756). Forms: attaque, attaques.

- I led the **attack**.
  J'ai mené l'**attaque**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#5858750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5858750) [\#10009439](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10009439))

- “Then it **attacks** children?”
  --Cela **attaque** donc les enfants?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4094)

- All those **attacks** have been reported to the police.
  Toutes ces **attaques** ont été signalées à la police.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 542242)

- **Attack** submarine diesel fuelled
  Sous-marin d'**attaque** à propulsion diesel
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1492016)

- 2. **Attacks** by armed groups
  2. **Attaques** lancées par des groupes armés
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 5163418)

## attentats

Used about 7 906 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 238 · legal and administrative ≈ 255 · UN documents ≈ 6 409).

- The RAID operator intervenes in extreme crisis situations, such as hostage scenarios or terrorist **attacks**.
  L’opérateur du RAID agit dans les situations de crise extrême, comme les prises d’otages ou les **attentats**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362935) [\#13362934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362934))

- We now know that the 11 September **attacks** were, at least in part, planned in Hamburg.
  Nous savons désormais que les **attentats** du 11 septembre étaient, au moins en partie, planifiés depuis Hambourg.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 685353)

- As of 2011, Omar was involved in suicide **attack** planning.
  À partir de 2011, il a participé à la planification d'**attentats** suicide.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3159805)

- That session took place one year after the odious terrorist **attacks** on the United States.
  Une session qui s &apos; était déroulée un an après les **attentats** terroristes odieux perpétrés contre les États-Unis.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10150732)

- After the **attacks**, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and people of no faith came to the mosque to stand in solidarity with Muslims.
  Après les **attentats**, des chrétiens, des juifs, des bouddhistes, des hindous ainsi que des personnes sans religion sont venus à la mosquée pour afficher leurs solidarité aux musulmans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8150595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8150595) [\#11837288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837288))

## contre

Used about 2 461 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 196 · UN documents ≈ 2 136).

- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to **attacks** upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or **attacks**.
  Nul ne sera l'objet d'immixtions arbitraires dans sa vie privée, sa famille, son domicile ou sa correspondance, ni d'atteintes à son honneur et à sa réputation. Toute personne a droit à la protection de la loi **contre** de telles immixtions ou de telles atteintes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and marioo · checked, community translation · [\#554696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/554696) [\#8423975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8423975))

- It is to **attack** the sceptre in the name of the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against.
  C'est attaquer le sceptre au nom du trône et la mitre au nom de l'autel; c'est malmener la chose qu'on traîne; c'est ruer dans l'attelage; c'est chicaner le bûcher sur le degré de cuisson des hérétiques; c'est reprocher à l'idole son peu d'idolâtrie; c'est insulter par excès de respect; c'est trouver dans le pape pas assez de papisme, dans le roi pas assez de royauté, et trop de lumière à la nuit; c'est être mécontent de l'albâtre, de la neige, du cygne et du lys au nom de la blancheur; c'est être partisan des choses au point d'en devenir l'ennemi; c'est être si fort pour, qu'on est **contre**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13344)

- When Ben Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to **attack**!” So they prepared to **attack** the city.
  Lorsque Ben-Hadad reçut cette réponse, il était à boire avec les rois sous les tentes, et il dit à ses serviteurs: Faites vos préparatifs! Et ils firent leurs préparatifs **contre** la ville.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 20:12)

- I believe that the time has come for us to pool our efforts and launch a determined and sustained **attack** on overweight and obesity.
  Je pense que le moment est venu d'unir nos efforts et de lancer une offensive déterminée et soutenue **contre** l'obésité et le surpoids.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1138995)

- The cyber-**attack** on a Ukrainian power grid resulted in parts of it being switched off during winter.
  La cyberattaque lancée **contre** un réseau électrique ukrainien a provoqué l’arrêt d’une partie de celui-ci pendant l’hiver.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 5238289)

## More sentences

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

- We decided to **attack** at dawn.
  Nous avons décidé d'attaquer à l'aube.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8336439](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8336439) [\#10720074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10720074))

- It's better to **attack** than to let oneself be attacked.
  Mieux vaut attaquer que se laisser attaquer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#10587286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10587286) [\#10774260](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10774260))

- A killer robot is an autonomous weapon, one that can choose and **attack** targets without human intervention.
  Un robot tueur est une arme autonome, qui peut choisir et attaquer des cibles sans intervention humaine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and rmateo · checked, community translation · [\#11616812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11616812) [\#6203853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6203853))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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