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# fighting — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fighting (23 399), fightings (2). By style: everyday 147 · literary 7 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 3 235 · legal and administrative 1 079 · UN documents 18 924.

## combat

Used about 8 282 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 202 · legal and administrative ≈ 180 · UN documents ≈ 7 885). Forms: combat, combats.

- Fleeing is part of **fighting**.
  La fuite fait partie du **combat**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and rmateo · checked, community translation · [\#12296555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12296555) [\#5899834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5899834))

- When it talks about **fighting** by bulls, it is clearly talking about bullfights.
  Lorsqu'il fait référence aux **combats** de taureaux, il parle clairement de tauromachie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 863322)

- Manufacture of military **fighting** vehicles
  Construction de véhicules militaires de **combat**
  ([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 5665899)

- Pasi 203 armoured infantry **fighting** vehicle
  Véhicule blindé de **combat** d &apos; infanterie Pasi 202
  ([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 21641269)

- The **fighting** lasted about three months.
  Les **combats** durèrent environ trois mois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#807370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/807370) [\#1368899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1368899))

## lutte

Used about 4 588 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 809 · legal and administrative ≈ 225 · UN documents ≈ 3 548).

- The wizard is **fighting** against a dragon.
  Le sorcier **lutte** contre un dragon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13953106](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953106) [\#13953108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953108))

- **Fighting** terrorism is an extremely difficult business.
  La **lutte** contre le terrorisme est une chose extrêmement difficile.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 573550)

- Cooperation in **fighting** IUU fishing
  Coopération en matière de **lutte** contre la pêche INN
  ([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 174448)

- D Certificate of attendance at a fire-**fighting** course
  D Une attestation de participation à un cours de **lutte** contre les incendies
  ([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 20901754)

- She is **fighting** for the liberation of the oppressed natives.
  Elle **lutte** pour la libération des indigènes opprimés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#2963502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2963502) [\#2963049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2963049))

## incendie

Used about 1 238 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 67 · legal and administrative ≈ 382 · UN documents ≈ 789).

- Logically, the derogation for fire-**fighting** foams has been deleted, as unlimited quantities of these can be released into the environment.
  En toute logique, la dérogation concernant les mousses anti-**incendie** a été supprimée étant donné que des quantités illimitées de ces mousses peuvent être répandues dans l'environnement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 869382)

- Fire **fighting** and fire prevention services
  Services de lutte contre l'**incendie** et de prévention des incendies
  ([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 3409263)

- authorities and fire-**fighting** services
  de contrôle et des bateaux des services d &apos; **incendie**
  ([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 6739948)

- This item does not control vehicles specially designed for the purposes of fire-**fighting**.
  ce point ne vise pas les véhicules spécialement conçus pour la lutte contre l'**incendie**.
  ([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 2920646)

- - Fire **fighting** foams (estimated quantity held in stock: 122 tonnes)
  - Mousses anti-**incendie** (quantité estimative détenue en stock : 122 tonnes)
  ([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 26905100)

## More sentences

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

- The siblings are **fighting** tooth and nail over the estate their father left them in his will.
  Les frères et sœurs s'arrachent les yeux à propos du domaine que leur père leur a légué dans son testament.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#585978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/585978) [\#817771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/817771))

- **Fighting** won't settle anything.
  Se battre ne résoudra rien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#239044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239044) [\#8797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8797))

- There are more and more people that are **fighting** against pollution.
  Il y a toujours plus de gens qui luttent contre la pollution de l'environnement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Inventorfrog and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6972177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6972177) [\#6922607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6922607))

## 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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