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# defence — English to French

How English *defence* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 6 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: defence (90 813), defences (2 903). By style: everyday 11 · literary 2 · parliamentary 7 369 · legal and administrative 5 972 · UN documents 80 362.

## défense

Used about 62 898 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 143 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 168 · UN documents ≈ 53 575). Forms: défense, défenses.

- The man pleaded self-**defence**.
  L'homme plaida la légitime **défense**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#45301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45301) [\#839692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/839692))

- When the stones destined to the final **defence** were in place, Enjolras had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, carried to the first floor.
  Quand les pavés, destinés à la **défense** suprême, furent en place, Enjolras fit porter au premier étage les bouteilles qu'il avait placées sous la table où était Mabeuf.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26650)

- Subject: Common military **defence**
  Objet: **Défense** militaire commune
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1846320)

- Supports your natural **defences**
  Soutient vos **défenses** naturelles
  ([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 2109460)

- 3. Missiles and missile **defences**
  3. Missiles et **défense** antimissile
  ([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 10017163)

## légitime

Used about 4 186 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 186).

- Our air **defences**, acting in exercise of the legitimate right to defend the homeland, engaged the aircraft and, at 0125 hours, drove them off.
  Exerçant leur droit **légitime** de défendre le pays, nos forces antiaériennes les ont contraints à rebrousser chemin à 1 h 25.
  ([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 9640306)

- Our air **defences**, acting in exercise of the legitimate right to defend the homeland, engaged the aircraft and, at 1145 hours, drove them off.
  Exerçant leur droit **légitime** de défendre le pays, nos forces antiaériennes les ont contraints à rebrousser chemin à 11 h 45.
  ([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 9640378)

- Our air **defences**, acting in exercise of the legitimate right to defend the homeland, engaged the aircraft and, at 1630 hours, drove them off.
  Exerçant leur droit **légitime** de défendre le pays, nos forces antiaériennes les ont contraints à rebrousser chemin à 16 h 30.
  ([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 9632394)

- Our air **defences**, acting in exercise of the legitimate right to defend the homeland, engaged the aircraft and, at 1445 hours, drove them off.
  Exerçant leur droit **légitime** de défendre le pays, nos forces antiaériennes les ont contraints à rebrousser chemin à 14 h 45.
  ([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 9618371)

- Our air **defences**, acting in exercise of the legitimate right to defend the homeland, engaged the aircraft and, at 1130 hours, drove them off.
  Exerçant leur droit **légitime** de défendre le pays, nos forces antiaériennes les ont contraints à rebrousser chemin à 11 h 30.
  ([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 9618381)

## ont

Used about 1 086 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 249 · UN documents ≈ 837).

- Rock armour sea **defences** are very different to the use of clay in flood **defences**;
  Les enrochements de protection contre la mer **ont** une fonction très différente de l'argile utilisée comme protection contre les inondations;
  ([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 3803043)

- The defendants were tried without legal representation and there were no **defence** or prosecution witnesses in court.
  Les accusés **ont** été jugés sans représentation légale et sans la comparution de témoins à charge ou à décharge.
  ([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 4510857)

- In its **defence** to the opening decision, Spain and the Autonomous Communities have put forward numerous arguments \[31\].
  l'Espagne et les communautés autonomes **ont** avancé de nombreux arguments à l'encontre de la décision d'ouvrir la procédure \[31\].
  ([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 3146326)

- In this capacity, he was responsible for directing repression of persons who spoke up in **defence** of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression.
  À ce titre, responsable de la répression exercée contre des personnes qui **ont** défendu leurs droits légitimes, dont la liberté d’expression.
  ([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 5078347)

- Several third parties commented that the AGL does not treat materials in a consistent manner because by-products from other exempted materials (rock used to produce stone with one or more flat surfaces (hereafter referred to as ‘cut stone’), lime), high PSV rock, armour rock for sea **defences**, walling rock and by-products/waste from extraction of primary high quality aggregates are not exempted.
  Plusieurs parties tierces **ont** fait valoir que l'AGL ne traite pas les matériaux de façon cohérente parce que les sous-produits d'autres matériaux exonérés (la roche utilisée pour produire des pierres avec une ou plusieurs faces planes, ci-après désignée par «pierre de taille», le calcaire), les roches à CPA élevé, les pierres des enrochements de protection contre la mer, les pierres à maçonner et les sous-produits/déchets issus de l'extraction de granulats primaires de qualité supérieure ne sont pas exonérés.
  ([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 3802115)

## forces

Used about 899 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 62 · UN documents ≈ 837).

- **Defence** Studies, Zimbabwe **Defence** Forces.
  **Forces** armées du Zimbabwe.
  ([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 2588341)

- Mr. Mikko Liponen **Defence** Forces, Helsinki
  Mr. Mikko Liponen Defence **Forces**, Helsinki
  ([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 15014438)

## état

Used about 216 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 154 · legal and administrative ≈ 62).

- These are the so-called 'permit and state of the art **defences**'.
  Il s'agit de ce que l'on appelle les permit and state of the art defences (arguments du permis et de l'**état** des connaissances).
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 451486)

- on State aid SA.34308 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) implemented by the Hellenic Republic for Hellenic **Defence** Systems S.A. (EAS — Ellinika Amyntika Systimata)
  concernant l'aide d'**État** SA.34308 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) accordée par la République hellénique à Hellenic Defence Systems S.A. (EAS — Ellinika Amyntika Systimata)
  ([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 4499752)

- The first is the absolute necessity to allow the permit and state-of-the-art **defences** to remain.
  Tout d’abord, la nécessité absolue de conserver la prise en compte des permis et de l’**état** des connaissances.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 534125)

## nos

Used about 154 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 154).

- To help achieve this objective of reducing the gap between rich and poor States, frontier **defences** must be lowered and export subsidies phased out.
  Pour faciliter une telle évolution, il convient de desserrer la protection de **nos** frontières et de supprimer les aides à l'exportation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2036315)

- We need to change our priorities completely, put a stop to harmonisation where it lowers our **defences** and give pride of place to security.
  Il faut complètement changer de priorité, arrêter les harmonisations qui abaissent **nos** protections et faire passer la sécurité au premier rang.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 560298)

## More sentences

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

- Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his summing up, had joined the counsel for the **defence**, and in a few minutes the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case.
  L'avocat avait tiré de là quelques épiphonèmes, malheureusement peu neufs, sur les erreurs judiciaires, etc., etc., le président dans son résumé s'était joint au défenseur, et le jury en quelques minutes avait mis hors de cause Champmathieu.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6413)

- In the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and **Defence** Policy we did the opposite: we voted first on the resolution and then on the Association Agreement.
  En commission des affaires étrangères, nous avons fait le contraire : nous avons d'abord voté pour la résolution et après pour l'accord d'association.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 372930)

- A country which has not yet managed to deal with this problem continues to be separated from Europe by a broad divide, because Europe stands in **defence** of fundamental values.
  Un pays qui n'est pas encore parvenu à faire face à ce problème reste forcément fort éloigné de l'Europe, parce que l'Europe défend les valeurs fondamentales.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1339525)

## Grammar

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