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# prohibition — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: prohibition (52 602), prohibitions (10 160). By style: everyday 2 · literary 2 · parliamentary 718 · legal and administrative 6 146 · UN documents 55 894.

## interdiction

Used about 49 523 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 605 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 250 · UN documents ≈ 43 667). Forms: interdiction, interdictions.

- **Prohibition** isn't taken seriously by anyone.
  L'**interdiction** n'est prise au sérieux par personne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6861470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6861470) [\#6856754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6856754))

- **Prohibitions** and restrictions will not help.
  Les **interdictions** et les restrictions ne serviront à rien.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 736505)

- **Prohibition** of insider dealing
  **Interdiction** des opérations d'initié
  ([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 2191669)

- **Prohibition** of propaganda for war
  **Interdiction** de la propagande de guerre
  ([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 18688290)

- It is not enough to post a **prohibition** notice beside the water.
  Il ne suffit pas de placer un panneau d'**interdiction** dans l'eau.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1667188)

## convention

Used about 2 911 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 911).

- PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON **PROHIBITIONS** 27 May 2002
  PARTIES TO THE **CONVENTION** ON PROHIBITIONS 27 May 2002
  ([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 8955007)

- Convention on the **Prohibition** of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.
  **Convention** on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.
  ([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 6515880)

- Convention on the **Prohibition** of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, concluded at Oslo on 18 September 1997
  **Convention** on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, concluded at Oslo on 18 September 1997
  ([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 5284894)

- Convention on the **Prohibition** of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Des- truction, opened for signature at Paris on 13 January 1993
  **Convention** on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Des- truction, opened for signature at Paris on 13 January 1993
  ([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 3081404)

- **Prohibitions** on reprisals contained in various humanitarian law instruments, drawn from article 60 (5) of the Vienna Convention, should certainly be given effect.
  Les dispositions interdisant les représailles contenues dans divers instruments de droit humanitaire, visées au paragraphe 5 de l &apos; article 60 de la **Convention** de Vienne doivent sans nul doute être appliquées.
  ([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 7793271)

## restrictions

Used about 1 164 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 164).

- Twelfth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on **Prohibitions** or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May
  Twelfth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Prohibitions or **Restrictions** on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May
  ([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 22339300)

- ITEM 75 - CONVENTION ON **PROHIBITIONS** OR RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS WHICH MAY BE DEEMED TO BE EXCESSIVELY INJURIOUS OR TO HAVE INDISCRIMINATE EFFECTS - 46-Power draft resolution
  ITEM 75 - CONVENTION ON PROHIBITIONS OR **RESTRICTIONS** ON THE USE OF CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS WHICH MAY BE DEEMED TO BE EXCESSIVELY INJURIOUS OR TO HAVE INDISCRIMINATE EFFECTS - 46-Power draft resolution
  ([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 3840122)

## More sentences

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

- **Prohibition** is hereby officially prohibited.
  La prohibition est dorénavant officiellement prohibée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by niceguydave and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1490773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1490773) [\#1492693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1492693))

- “That gypsy girl you know, who comes every day to dance on the church square, in spite of the official’s **prohibition**!
  --Cette bohémienne que vous savez bien, qui vient tous les jours baller sur le parvis malgré la défense de l'official!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4330)

- God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the false; a **prohibition** to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert understand this?
  Dieu, toujours intérieur à l'homme, et réfractaire, lui la vraie conscience, à la fausse, défense à l'étincelle de s'éteindre, ordre au rayon de se souvenir du soleil, injonction à l'âme de reconnaître le véritable absolu quand il se confronte avec l'absolu fictif, l'humanité imperdable, le coeur humain inamissible, ce phénomène splendide, le plus beau peut-être de nos prodiges intérieurs, Javert le comprenait-il?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28673)

## Grammar

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