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On m'a **forcé** à y aller. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#255839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/255839) [\#3281618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3281618)) - Coictier gave a **forced** laugh. Coictier riait d'un rire **forcé**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2455) - Our view is that prostitution is always **forced**. Nous sommes d'avis que la prostitution est toujours **forcée**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 411352) - ILO Convention 29 on **Forced** Labour; Convention no 29 de l’OIT sur le travail **forcé** ([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 3196888) - Hostile action/**forced** abandonment factor Acte d ' hostilité ou abandon **forcé** ([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 17964358) ## contraint Used about 4 879 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 391 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 · UN documents ≈ 4 441). - I am **forced** to do it. Je suis **contraint** à le faire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1157296](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1157296) [\#982156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/982156)) - So we were **forced** to keep quiet for several weeks, for fear of reprisals. Donc, par peur de représailles, on a été aussi **contraint**, pour plusieurs semaines, au silence. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1716496) - According to the Portuguese authorities the State was **forced** to renew the guarantee as an immediate disruption of BPP would clearly have compromised the solution currently under consideration. Selon elles, l’État était **contraint** de renouveler cette garantie, car la défaillance immédiate de BPP aurait manifestement compromis la solution à l’étude à ce moment. ([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 2260687) - He was **forced** to stay in this position for 30 minutes. Il avait été **contraint** de rester dans cette position pendant une demiheure. ([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 18457179) - She **forced** him to sit down. Elle l'a **contraint** à s'asseoir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887120) [\#1339617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339617)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom **forced** himself to speak. Tom se força à parler. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#3724315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3724315) [\#5304034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5304034)) - He was **forced** to resign as Prime Minister. Il a été obligé de démissionner en tant que premier ministre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#14025033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14025033) [\#5238462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5238462)) - She **forced** him to sit down. Elle le contraignit à s'asseoir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887120) [\#1339616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339616)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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