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# dangerous — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: dangerous (57 326). By style: everyday 420 · literary 6 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 4 606 · legal and administrative 4 537 · UN documents 47 755.

## dangereux

Used about 51 111 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 420 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 030 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 875 · UN documents ≈ 42 781). Forms: dangereuse, dangereuses, dangereux.

- It's too **dangerous**.
  C'est trop **dangereux**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#2249319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2249319) [\#6860954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6860954))

- Nothing is more **dangerous** than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished.
  Rien n'est plus **dangereux** que ce rapide, resserré à cette époque et irrité par les pilotis du moulin du pont, aujourd'hui démoli.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28527)

- When much time had passed and the voyage was now **dangerous** because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them
  Un temps assez long s’était écoulé, et la navigation devenait **dangereuse**, car l’époque même du jeûne était déjà passée.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:9)

- That seems less **dangerous**.
  Cela me semble moins **dangereux**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 507089)

- UN **Dangerous** Goods code
  Code des marchandises **dangereuses** ONU
  ([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 1066305)

## marchandises

Used about 995 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 995).

- The following is an indicative list of high consequence **dangerous** goods:
  Ces **marchandises** sont les suivantes:
  ([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 11110039)

## transport

Used about 995 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 995).

- ECOSOC Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of **Dangerous** Goods (forty-first session) (ST/SG/AC.10/C.3)
  ECOSOC Sub-Committee of Experts on the **Transport** of Dangerous Goods (forty-first session) (ST/SG/AC.10/C.3)
  ([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 24611402)

## More sentences

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

- But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on **dangerous** amounts of water.
  Pendant qu’ils naviguaient, Jésus s’endormit. Un tourbillon fondit sur le lac, la barque se remplissait d’eau, et ils étaient en péril.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 8:23)

- He fears neither suspicious roads nor **dangerous** encounters, nor night.
  Il n'a pas peur de la nuit, des routes suspectes ni des rencontres.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 643)

- The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not **dangerous**.
  Le torse n'était atteint d'aucune lésion intérieure; une balle, amortie par le portefeuille, avait dévié et fait le tour des côtes avec une déchirure hideuse, mais sans profondeur, et par conséquent sans danger.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28384)

## 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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