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# hard — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: hard (28 649), hards (2). By style: everyday 1 547 · literary 22 · biblical 44 · parliamentary 5 897 · legal and administrative 2 155 · UN documents 18 986.

## dur

Used about 3 140 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 612 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 826 · legal and administrative ≈ 494 · UN documents ≈ 1 187). Forms: dur, dure.

- It won't be **hard**.
  Ce ne sera pas **dur**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2272054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2272054) [\#5619315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5619315))

- "Too **hard** for the pickaxe."
  —C'est trop **dur** pour le pic, m'écriai-je.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3636)

- The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed **hard** labor on us.
  Les Égyptiens nous maltraitèrent et nous opprimèrent, et ils nous soumirent à une **dure** servitude.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 26:6)

- This is not really a question of creating a **hard** core.
  Il ne s'agit pas tellement de créer un noyau **dur**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 69644)

- a slot for a **hard** disk.
  emplacement pour disque **dur**.
  ([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 2871345)

## difficile

Used about 2 751 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 451 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 061 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 · UN documents ≈ 1 187).

- That's **hard** to do.
  C'est **difficile** à faire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5377302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5377302) [\#5576612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5576612))

- “Is it very **hard** to get a place as medical man on board a Transatlantic liner?”
  --Est-ce très **difficile** à obtenir, les places de médecin sur un transatlantique?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2120)

- Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How **hard** it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!
  Jésus, voyant qu’il était devenu tout triste, dit: Qu’il est **difficile** à ceux qui ont des richesses d’entrer dans le royaume de Dieu!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:24)

- A better example of EU incompetence would be **hard** to find.
  Il serait **difficile** de trouver un meilleur exemple de l’incompétence de l’UE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 810357)

- Germany has on the contrary indicated that it was **hard** to quantify the value that stable load had for the network.
  Au contraire, l'Allemagne a souligné combien il est **difficile** de quantifier la valeur d'une consommation électrique stable pour le réseau.
  ([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 4785604)

## caoutchouc

Used about 808 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 808).

- Articles of **hard** rubber
  Ouvrages en **caoutchouc** durci
  ([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 375191)

- Of **hard** rubber or plastics
  en **caoutchouc** durci ou en matières plastiques
  ([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 344383)

- Tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanised rubber other than **hard** rubber
  Tubes et tuyaux en **caoutchouc** vulcanisé non durci
  ([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 3406288)

- Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of vulcanised rubber other than **hard** rubber
  Vêtements et accessoires de l’habillement en **caoutchouc** vulcanisé non durci
  ([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 2994949)

- Hygienic or pharmaceutical articles (including teats), of vulcanised rubber other than **hard** rubber
  Articles d'hygiène ou de pharmacie (y compris les tétines) en **caoutchouc** vulcanisé non durci
  ([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 4081851)

## More sentences

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

- Yamada tried **hard** to keep his anger against his boss in check.
  Yamada s'efforça de contenir sa colère envers son patron.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#245116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/245116) [\#9009684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9009684))

- Yesterday it rained **hard**.
  Il a plu à verse hier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by whitefishglobal and sbamsbamsbam · checked, community translation · [\#4823475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4823475) [\#4101223](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4101223))

- Don't work too **hard**.
  Ne te tue pas à la tâche !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#280194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280194) [\#4344462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4344462))

## 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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