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# corruption — English to French

How English *corruption* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: corruption (57 566), corruptions (18). By style: everyday 21 · literary 2 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 2 986 · legal and administrative 1 455 · UN documents 53 111.

## corruption

Used about 50 131 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 924 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 425 · UN documents ≈ 45 757).

- **Corruption** was a problem.
  La **corruption** était un problème.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4494289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494289) [\#6210383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6210383))

- There is **corruption** under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.
  Il y a **corruption** sous les tyrans illustres, mais la peste morale est plus hideuse encore sous les tyrans infâmes.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22929)

- For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see **corruption**.
  Car tu ne livreras pas mon âme au séjour des morts, Tu ne permettras pas que ton bien-aimé voie la **corruption**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 16:10)

- The facts prove that **corruption** has taken place.
  Les faits prouvent qu'il y a eu **corruption**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1460097)

- active and passive **corruption**;
  **corruption** active et passive;
  ([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 5082064)

## fraude

Used about 62 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 62).

- The Commission still believes that all **corruption** cases are serious and should be liable to sanctions.
  La Commission est néanmoins d'avis que tous les cas de **fraude** sont graves et doivent être passibles de sanctions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1644666)

## More sentences

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

- A man of strong will is not subject to **corruption**.
  Un homme de volonté ne peut être corrompu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yepthatscool and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#28211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28211) [\#390658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390658))

- Power brings **corruption**.
  Le pouvoir corrompt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#806677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/806677) [\#1187112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1187112))

- According to the "Ahl al-Haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all that we name generations and **corruptions**, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.
  Selon les Ehl Eltahik, l'univers se compose d'une seule substance, et tout ce qu'on appelle générations et corruptions, mort et vie, n'est qu'une certaine combinaison ou dissolution de modes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#534470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/534470) [\#534478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/534478))

## 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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