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# delays — English to French

How English *delays* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: delays (22 322). By style: everyday 2 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 666 · legal and administrative 1 037 · UN documents 19 615.

## retards

Used about 15 044 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 423 · legal and administrative ≈ 951 · UN documents ≈ 12 668). Forms: retard, retards.

- Many roads are flooded. As a result there are long **delays**.
  Beaucoup de routes sont inondées. Il en découle de nombreux **retards**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and superbolo · checked, community translation · [\#274926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274926) [\#329801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/329801))

- "But are you not subject to considerable **delays**?"
  —Mais, enfin, vous n'êtes pas sujet à éprouver des **retards** considérables?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 797)

- **Delays** will do nothing to resolve these issues.
  Un **retard** n’aidera en rien à résoudre ces questions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 511995)

- **Delays** in the follow up of pre-debts
  **Retards** dans le suivi des prédettes
  ([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 3808775)

- (b) **Delays** in the conduct of trials
  b) **Retards** dans le déroulement des procès
  ([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 4535349)

## More sentences

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

- After several **delays**, the plane finally left.
  Après plusieurs retardements, l'avion finit par décoller.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#24488](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24488) [\#136538](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136538))

- But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord **delays** his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
  Mais, si ce serviteur dit en lui-même: Mon maître tarde à venir; s’il se met à battre les serviteurs et les servantes, à manger, à boire et à s’enivrer,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 12:45)

- We think it will lead to increases in user tariffs and **delays** in the spreading and development of communications services.
  À notre avis, cela débouche sur l' augmentation des redevances des abonnés ainsi que sur le ralentissement de l' expansion et du développement des services de communication.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 53945)

## Grammar

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