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# fire — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fire (41 274), fires (4 754). By style: everyday 692 · literary 85 · biblical 461 · parliamentary 2 703 · legal and administrative 5 968 · UN documents 36 119.

## incendies

Used about 20 432 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 180 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 464 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 984 · UN documents ≈ 15 802). Forms: incendie, incendies.

- I fight forest **fires**.
  Je lutte contre les **incendies** de forêt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12157029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12157029) [\#12157113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12157113))

- Whatever may be thought of this triple explanation, political, physical, and poetical, of the burning of the law courts in 1618, the unfortunate fact of the **fire** is certain.
  Quoi qu'on pense de cette triple explication politique, physique, poétique, de l'**incendie** du Palais de Justice en 1618, le fait malheureusement certain, c'est l'incendie.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 61)

- Forest **fires** in Portugal
  **Incendies** de forêts au Portugal
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887446)

- .2 Capacity of **fire** pumps
  .2 Débit des pompes d’**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 5161128)

- Number of forest **fires**;
  Nombre d &apos; **incendies** de forêt;
  ([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 10432106)

## feu

Used about 8 547 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 370 · literary ≈ 76 · biblical ≈ 433 · parliamentary ≈ 591 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 057 · UN documents ≈ 6 020). Forms: feu, feux.

- The house caught **fire**.
  La maison a pris **feu**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#49405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49405) [\#3642070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3642070))

- “’Tis a big **fire**.”
  --C'est un gros **feu**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4264)

- The meat and the skin he burned with **fire** outside the camp.
  Mais il brûla au **feu** hors du camp la chair et la peau.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 9:11)

- So we are playing with **fire**.
  Nous jouons donc avec le **feu**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 120034)

- Natural **fires** inside the Member State
  **Feux** naturels dans l’État membre
  ([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 392999)

## forêt

Used about 1 764 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 197 · legal and administrative ≈ 62 · UN documents ≈ 1 505).

- Mr President, no-one could have been surprised by the news that the forests are on **fire** in the Brazilian Amazon.
  Monsieur le Président, personne ne sera surpris d'apprendre que la **forêt** brûle dans l'Amazonie brésilienne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1765999)

- activities for forest monitoring and information systems, and to prevent forest **fires**.
  activités en faveur de systèmes de surveillance des forêts et d'information sur celles-ci, ainsi que de la prévention des feux de **forêt**.
  ([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 4488304)

- Related work was being done at JRC on forest **fires**.
  Des travaux connexes concernant les feux de **forêt** étaient réalisés au CCR.
  ([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 13695718)

- The EU countries should develop structures for helping each other in the event of forest **fires** and other natural disasters.
  . - Les pays de l’UE devraient mettre en place des structures d’entraide en cas de feux de **forêt** et d’autres catastrophes naturelles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 783916)

- Outside the European region, however, there is a gap in activities in forest areas affected by pollution, except **fires**.
  Cependant, en dehors de l &apos; Europe, on relève une insuffisance des activités dans les régions forestières touchées par la pollution, sauf en ce qui concerne les feux de **forêt**.
  ([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 3982347)

## More sentences

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

- Sami set Layla's body on **fire**.
  Sami a incendié le corps de Layla.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#6378535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6378535) [\#6378552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6378552))

- The house was on **fire**.
  La maison était en flammes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Christiane · checked, community translation · [\#2547062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2547062) [\#744372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/744372))

- I have bought a new **fire** extinguisher.
  J'ai acheté un nouvel extincteur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#2872535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2872535) [\#2872536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2872536))

## 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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