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# drug — English to French

How English *drug* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: drug (94 386), drugs (70 336). By style: everyday 238 · literary 4 · parliamentary 6 021 · legal and administrative 2 208 · UN documents 156 251.

## drogue

Used about 102 545 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 148 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 575 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 162 · UN documents ≈ 97 657). Forms: drogue, drogues.

- Say no to **drugs**.
  Dites non à la **drogue**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#827226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/827226) [\#827227](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/827227))

- “Oh! terrible **drugs**.”
  --Oh! des **drogues** terribles.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4091)

- We need to fight **drugs** effectively.
  Notre lutte contre la **drogue** doit être menée efficacement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 843910)

- Screening for **drugs** of abuse.
  le dépistage de l'usage et de l'abus de **drogues**.
  ([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 858576)

- United Nations Office on **Drugs** and Crime
  Office des Nations Unies contre la **drogue** et le crime
  ([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 11347711)

## stupéfiants

Used about 24 929 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · legal and administrative ≈ 442 · UN documents ≈ 24 414).

- **Drugs** are an international problem.
  Les **stupéfiants** sont un problème international.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13875989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13875989) [\#13867992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13867992))

- In fact, the first death from doping took place in 1896, when a cyclist took **drugs**.
  En effet, le premier décès dû au dopage remonte à 1896 et est le fait d'un cycliste ayant pris des **stupéfiants**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 87386)

- illicit trafficking in narcotic **drugs** and psychotropic substances;
  trafic de **stupéfiants** et de substances psychotropes;
  ([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 4730328)

- a. Commission on Narcotic **Drugs**.
  a. Commission des **stupéfiants**.
  ([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 5803684)

- He was convicted of **drug** trafficking.
  Il a été condamné pour trafic de **stupéfiants**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13959946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959946) [\#13959942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959942))

## médicaments

Used about 10 431 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 439 · legal and administrative ≈ 209 · UN documents ≈ 9 766).

- He's addicted to **drugs**.
  Il est accroché aux **médicaments**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1855197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1855197) [\#1858270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858270))

- Another solution would be for these countries to have licences that authorise them to produce generic **drugs**.
  Une autre solution serait que ces pays disposent de licences d'autorisation de production de **médicaments** génériques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 242868)

- Bulgarian **Drug** Agency/ИЗПЪЛНИТЕЛНА АГЕН愦灭лИЯ ПО ЛЕКАРСТВАТА
  Agence bulgare des **médicaments**/ИЗПЪЛНИТЕЛНА АГЕН愦灭лИЯ ПО ЛЕКАРСТВАТА
  ([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 278796)

- Before the 27th of December there was a severe shortage of medical **drugs**.
  Avant le 27 décembre, il y avait déjà une pénurie grave de **médicaments**.
  ([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 21369594)

- She's addicted to **drugs**.
  Elle est accrochée aux **médicaments**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1855198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1855198) [\#1858267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858267))

## contre

Used about 3 323 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · UN documents ≈ 3 255).

- I found a very good **drug** for nettle rash.
  J'ai trouvé un très bon médicament **contre** l'urticaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by goldenthree and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2062348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2062348) [\#10083728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10083728))

- Next weekend the question of joint action is to be discussed at the Dublin summit, which is to examine how we can work together to tackle **drug** dependence in Europe.
  Le week-end prochain, l'action commune sera discutée à Dublin. Nous y examinerons comment lutter ensemble **contre** la toxicomanie en Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1660487)

- Progress was also made on the National **Drug** Abuse Demand Reduction programme in the face of manpower constraints.
  Des progrès ont été aussi réalisés au titre du programme national de lutte **contre** la toxicomanie malgré une réduction de personnel.
  ([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 7179935)

- The experimental **drug** proved effective against the virus.
  Le médicament expérimental s'est avéré efficace **contre** le virus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8727053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8727053) [\#12185432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12185432))

- The health care teams have also included social workers and cultural mediators, who often provide care and combat non-adherence to **drug** treatment.
  Les équipes de soins de santé comprenaient également des travailleurs sociaux et des médiateurs culturels, qui fournissent souvent des soins et luttent **contre** le suivi irrégulier des traitements médicaux.
  ([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 16528217)

## lutte

Used about 274 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 251 · legal and administrative ≈ 23).

- Combating **drugs** is unequivocally the issue. The question is how we do it.
  La question est maintenant, et c'est une bonne chose, de savoir ce que nous entendons par «**lutte** antidrogue».
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1888976)

- Fully implement a national strategy for the fight against **drug** abuse.
  Mettre pleinement en œuvre une stratégie nationale de **lutte** contre la toxicomanie.
  ([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 1356895)

- - (PT) Each Member State has a crucial role in defining its policy on combating **drug** addiction.
  Chaque État membre a un rôle fondamental à jouer dans la définition de sa politique de **lutte** contre la toxicomanie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2038120)

- Instead, we should talk about the fight against those who traffic in human lives, and about the fight against **drug** traffickers.
  Parlons de **lutte** contre les trafiquants d'êtres humains, parlons de lutte contre les narcotrafiquants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1894445)

- Firstly, the followers of the Swedish model which, apart from treating **drug** addicts, emphasises the control of narcotics.
  Premièrement les partisans du modèle suédois qui, outre le traitement des toxicomanes, met l'accent sur la **lutte** contre les stupéfiants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2037422)

## More sentences

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

- The **drug** addict had to undergo rehabilitation.
  Le drogué dut suivre un programme de désintoxication.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1503581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1503581) [\#1510669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1510669))

- I was flabbergasted to hear that she died of a **drug** overdose. She always seemed like such a straight arrow to me.
  J'étais sidéré d'apprendre qu'elle est morte d'une overdose. Elle m'a toujours semblé être une personne si droite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#958671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/958671) [\#962512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/962512))

- The **drug** must go through clinical trials before being approved.
  Le médicament doit subir des essais cliniques avant autorisation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#950932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950932) [\#952716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/952716))

## 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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