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# laws — English to French

How English *laws* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 6 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: laws (141 367). By style: everyday 74 · literary 8 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 4 495 · legal and administrative 9 245 · UN documents 127 526.

## lois

Used about 76 350 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 3 184 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 348 · UN documents ≈ 71 733).

- Our **laws** are very strict.
  Nos **lois** sont très strictes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#8953874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8953874) [\#8954937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8954937))

- The **laws** of September are open to sight.
  Les **lois** de septembre sont à claire-voie.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18183)

- Your **laws** remain to this day, for all things serve you.
  C’est d’après tes **lois** que tout subsiste aujourd’hui, Car toutes choses te sont assujetties.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:91)

- These are the **laws** of the global community.
  Ce sont les **lois** de la communauté internationale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 54695)

- Managing entities set up by special **laws**.
  Sociétés de gestion instituées par des **lois** spéciales.
  ([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 1418811)

## législations

Used about 5 821 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 468 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 696 · UN documents ≈ 2 657).

- The rest will be ironed out by national **laws**.
  Ce sont les **législations** nationales qui régleront les autres modalités.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1870133)

- In a trans-frontier case, this means that the different **laws** should be applied sequentially.
  Dans un contexte transfrontière, les différentes **législations** devraient donc s’appliquer successivement.
  ([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 1192496)

- Council directive on the approximation of the **laws** of the Member States relating to seamless steel gas cylinders
  Directive du Conseil concernant le rapprochement des **législations** des États membres relatives aux bouteilles à gaz en acier sans soudure
  ([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 6764480)

- It seeks to approximate **laws** with common minimum penalties.
  Elle cherche à rapprocher les **législations** avec des sanctions communes minimales.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 288769)

- The sole aim of this power is to take account of the differences which exist in certain national **laws**.
  Le seul objectif de cette faculté est la prise en compte des particularités qui existent dans certaines **législations** nationales.
  ([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 1765359)

## dispositions

Used about 5 506 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 193 · UN documents ≈ 5 314).

- Adopt appropriate by-**laws** for the implementation and development of reception policies and facilities.
  Adopter des **dispositions** d’application appropriées en vue de la mise en œuvre et du développement de politiques et de structures d’accueil.
  ([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 395267)

- The **laws** relating to these Commissions are also non-discriminatory.
  Les **dispositions** légales régissant ces commissions sont également non discriminatoires.
  ([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 13456654)

- 44. The Constitution and the **laws** on freedom of assembly and association have created an enabling environment in which these rights can be realized.
  Les **dispositions** de la Constitution et autres textes législatifs sur la liberté de réunion et d &apos; association ont crée des conditions favorables à la réalisation de ces droits.
  ([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 18595274)

## législatives

Used about 4 237 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 4 237).

- Compliance with **Laws** and Regulations
  Respect des dispositions **législatives** et réglementaires
  ([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 99646)

- the **laws**, regulations or administrative provisions of a third country governing natural or legal persons with which the AIFM has close links;
  les dispositions **législatives**, réglementaires ou administratives d’un pays tiers applicables à des personnes physiques ou morales avec lesquelles le gestionnaire a des liens étroits;
  ([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 2311456)

- Member States shall bring into force the **laws**, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 9 June 2018.
  Les États membres mettent en vigueur les dispositions **législatives**, réglementaires et administratives nécessaires pour se conformer à la présente directive au plus tard le 9 juin 2018.
  ([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 3901928)

- Member States shall bring into force the **laws**, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 18 June 2016.
  Les États membres mettent en vigueur les dispositions **législatives**, réglementaires et administratives nécessaires pour se conformer à la présente directive au plus tard le18 juin 2016.
  ([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 3218690)

- Member States shall bring into force the **laws**, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 18 April 2016.
  Les États membres mettent en vigueur les dispositions **législatives**, réglementaires et administratives nécessaires pour se conformer à la présente directive au plus tard le 18 avril 2016.
  ([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 3194400)

## réglementaires

Used about 2 657 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 657).

- The following **laws** and regulations were adopted:
  Les textes législatifs et **réglementaires** ci-après ont été adoptés :
  ([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 11921411)

## directive

Used about 94 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 94).

- In this particular case, we are proceeding with revision of the directive of 1990 and of the **laws** and regulations that were changed four times, in 1994, 1998, 2001 and 2003.
  Au cas particulier, nous effectuons la refonte de la **directive** de 1990 et des textes l'ayant modifié à quatre reprises en 1994,1998, 2001 et 2003.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1151331)

## More sentences

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

- We should always obey **laws**.
  On devrait toujours se soumettre à la loi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1075502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1075502) [\#1339849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339849))

- I think the police should enforce the **laws** that are on the books.
  Je pense que la police devrait appliquer le texte de la loi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1887729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1887729) [\#2142656](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2142656))

- It's not true that equality is a law of nature; nature makes nothing equal - her sovereign **laws** are subordination and dependence.
  Il est faux que l'égalité soit une loi de la nature. La nature n'a rien fait d'égal, sa loi souveraine est la subordination et la dépendance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eastasiastudent and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#734419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/734419) [\#671778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/671778))

## Grammar

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