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# barriers — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: barriers (29 501). By style: everyday 8 · literary 5 · parliamentary 2 482 · legal and administrative 2 365 · UN documents 24 641.

## obstacles

Used about 17 066 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 827 · legal and administrative ≈ 838 · UN documents ≈ 15 401).

- One of the major **barriers** is access to financial services.
  L'un des **obstacles** majeurs est l'accès aux services financiers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1501698)

- **barriers** to the use of ICT and the Internet,
  **obstacles** à l’utilisation des TIC et de l’internet,
  ([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 2147104)

- B. Opportunities and **barriers**
  B. Possibilités offertes et **obstacles** rencontrés
  ([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 8506634)

- There are, however, many other **barriers** that we should remove.
  Il existe néanmoins de nombreux autres **obstacles** que nous devons supprimer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 819679)

- In either case, the **barriers** are such that they prevent occurrence of the following:
  Dans les deux cas, les **obstacles** sont de nature à empêcher:
  ([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 4858797)

## barrières

Used about 6 336 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 034 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 183 · UN documents ≈ 4 107).

- We must work hard to break down social **barriers**.
  Nous devons travailler dur à abattre les **barrières** sociales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#22925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22925) [\#1523143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1523143))

- Happily for him, the station had neither gates nor **barriers**.
  Heureusement pour lui, la gare n'avait ni portes ni **barrières**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2263)

- There can be no security behind **barriers**.
  Il ne peut y avoir de sécurité derrière des **barrières**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 735858)

- in highway safety fencing and **barriers**,
  glissières et **barrières** de sécurité du réseau autoroutier,
  ([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 1856595)

- Language **barriers** for grass-roots women impede some projects.
  Les **barrières** linguistiques font échouer certains projets destinés aux femmes des communautés de base.
  ([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 5221103)

## commerce

Used about 153 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 103 · legal and administrative ≈ 49).

- There is an urgent need to change or abolish old or outdated provisions so as to remove existing or potential **barriers** to trade.
  Il est urgent de modifier ou d'abroger certaines dispositions anciennes et dépassées afin de lever toute entrave réelle ou potentielle au **commerce**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 103794)

- The harmonisation of national laws is the only means to prevent such **barriers** to trade and unfair competition.
  L’harmonisation des législations nationales est le seul moyen d’éviter ces entraves au **commerce** et de prévenir la concurrence déloyale.
  ([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 1770133)

- From this point of view, therefore, certain **barriers** to trade, for example, to maintain food sovereignty in Europe, make perfect sense.
  Compte tenu de cela, il est donc tout à fait pertinent d'imposer certains garde-fous au **commerce**, par exemple pour maintenir la souveraineté alimentaire en Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1321155)

## More sentences

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

- Security isn't achieved by erecting **barriers**, but by opening gates.
  Ce n'est pas en érigeant des clôtures qu'on obtient la sécurité, mais en ouvrant des portes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#9991407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9991407) [\#9990844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9990844))

- What, instead, is required as a basis for creating more jobs are deregulation, lower taxes and fewer **barriers** to trade.
  Pour créer plus d'emplois, il faut déréglementer, réduire les impôts et supprimer les entraves aux échanges.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 436434)

- Consumers, entrepreneurs and businessmen all accuse us of imposing **barriers** that impede things from functioning smoothly.
  Les consommateurs, les entrepreneurs et les hommes d'affaires nous accusent tous d'imposer des entraves qui empêchent le bon fonctionnement des choses.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1467026)

## Grammar

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