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# disaster — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: disaster (63 319), disasters (35 884). By style: everyday 60 · literary 2 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 6 805 · legal and administrative 2 164 · UN documents 90 153.

## catastrophe

Used about 81 548 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 5 742 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 600 · UN documents ≈ 74 188). Forms: catastrophe, catastrophes.

- It was an utter **disaster**.
  Ce fut une **catastrophe** absolue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5041912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5041912) [\#12005474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12005474))

- It was a **disaster** in every way.
  C'est une **catastrophe** sur toute la ligne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2032432)

- Responding to **disasters** within the Union
  Réaction aux **catastrophes** dans l'Union
  ([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 2837534)

- II. Natural and environmental **disasters**
  II. **Catastrophes** naturelles et écologiques
  ([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 6268831)

- You're racing toward **disaster**.
  Tu cours à la **catastrophe**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and RCendre · checked, community translation · [\#11953795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11953795) [\#11944723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11944723))

## naturelles

Used about 249 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 248).

- Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural **disasters** which befell the capital.
  Les documents relatifs à cette période sont particulièrement rares, peut-être à cause d'une longue série de désastres **naturelles** qui ont frappé la capitale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#65024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/65024) [\#413383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413383))

- Section 8 — Aid to make good the damage caused by certain natural **disasters**
  Section 8 — Aides destinées à remédier aux dommages causés par certaines calamités **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 3335740)

- Aid to make good the damage caused by natural **disasters** and exceptional occurrences
  Aides destinées à remédier aux dommages causés par des calamités **naturelles** ou des événements extraordinaires
  ([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 4107733)

- The Italian authorities did not quantify the direct material damage caused by the natural **disasters**.
  Les autorités italiennes n’ont pas quantifié les dommages matériels directs causés par les calamités **naturelles** susmentionnées.
  ([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 548117)

- The Italian legislation identifies areas affected by natural **disasters** of three kinds:
  Les divers actes juridiques italiens sur lesquels les mesures se fondent répertorient les zones touchées selon trois types de calamités **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 3797531)

## More sentences

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

- This plan, while looking great on paper, turned out to be a **disaster**.
  Ce plan, qui avait l'air bien sur le papier, se révéla être un désastre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by corvard and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#3470578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3470578) [\#3471100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3471100))

- It's an ecological **disaster**.
  C'est un désastre écologique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1731525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1731525) [\#1732601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1732601))

- The slightest mistake may lead to a fatal **disaster**.
  La plus petite erreur peut mener à un accident fatal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#29128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/29128) [\#1330323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1330323))

## 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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