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# problems — English to French

How English *problems* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: problems (180 494). By style: everyday 407 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 27 210 · legal and administrative 4 087 · UN documents 148 786.

## problèmes

Used about 139 633 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 373 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 24 943 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 725 · UN documents ≈ 111 589).

- I've got **problems**.
  J'ai des **problèmes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#11563261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11563261) [\#2371267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2371267))

- All the **problems** that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic visions, reverie and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two principal **problems**.
  Tous les **problèmes** que les socialistes se proposaient, les visions cosmogoniques, la rêverie et le mysticisme écartés, peuvent être ramenés à deux problèmes principaux:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18273)

- Transport **problems** provide an easy excuse.
  Les **problèmes** de transport offrent un alibi facile.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 474541)

- **Problems** related to reconciliation
  **Problèmes** liés aux rapprochements
  ([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 4276367)

- A. **Problems** of visibility
  A. **Problèmes** de visibilité
  ([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 5997745)

## difficultés

Used about 4 744 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 134 · legal and administrative ≈ 511 · UN documents ≈ 3 100).

- I should just like to stress some of the practical **problems** which may give rise to debate, since this is the Council' s position.
  Je voudrais simplement - puisque c'est la position du Conseil - souligner quelques **difficultés** pratiques qui peuvent donner lieu à débat.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 106368)

- financial difficulties: **problems** paying rent/mortgage,
  **difficultés** financières: difficultés pour payer le loyer ou rembourser le prêt hypothécaire,
  ([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 1518017)

- One police station for every 100,000 persons is disproportionate and gives rise to difficult and complex management **problems** caused mainly by infrastructure and logistics.
  Les **difficultés** qui découlent de cet état de choses tiennent pour l &apos; essentiel aux infrastructures et à la logistique.
  ([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 3683629)

- Christian communities, despite the introduction of the Law on Foundations, are having serious **problems** with regaining confiscated property.
  Les communautés chrétiennes, malgré l'adoption de la loi sur les fondations, éprouvent de grandes **difficultés** à récupérer les biens confisqués.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1339255)

- Serious structural **problems** will be deemed to exist when the sector concerned is declining \[14\].
  Ces graves **difficultés** seront réputées exister lorsque le secteur en question est en déclin \[14\].
  ([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 5614292)

## More sentences

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

- I don't see any **problems**.
  Je ne vois aucun problème.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#10951057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10951057) [\#2527759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2527759))

- I have a lot of **problems** with being productive at night.
  J'ai beaucoup de mal à être productif en soirée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by acell and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#9136536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9136536) [\#8350835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8350835))

- No mechanical **problems** were found.
  Aucun problème mécanique ne fut trouvé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2663181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2663181) [\#7841718](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7841718))

## Grammar

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