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# complaint — English to French

How English *complaint* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: complaint (37 910), complaints (62 077). By style: everyday 87 · literary 3 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 2 498 · legal and administrative 6 351 · UN documents 91 036.

## plaintes

Used about 71 981 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 004 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 425 · UN documents ≈ 64 484). Forms: plainte, plaintes.

- I have a **complaint**.
  J'ai une **plainte**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4999987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4999987) [\#5943495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5943495))

- “The office is closed,” said Gavroche, “I do not receive any more **complaints**.”
  --Le bureau est fermé, dit Gavroche, je ne reçois plus de **plaintes**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20540)

- As for me, is my **complaint** to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
  Est-ce contre un homme que se dirige ma **plainte**? Et pourquoi mon âme ne serait-elle pas impatiente?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:4)

- I often get **complaints** from CB users.
  Je reçois de nombreuses **plaintes** d'adeptes de la CB.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 213322)

- Mechanisms for handling **complaints**
  Mécanismes de gestion des **plaintes**
  ([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 120791)

## More sentences

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

- I am sick of your **complaint**.
  J'en ai assez de votre récrimination.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#16911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16911) [\#474173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474173))

- I'd like to file a **complaint**.
  J'aimerais soumettre une réclamation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1936490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1936490) [\#1936722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1936722))

- I want to make a **complaint** to the management.
  Je souhaite me plaindre à la direction.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3109417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3109417) [\#3673212](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3673212))

## 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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