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# protect — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: protect (117 671), protects (6 416). By style: everyday 218 · literary 7 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 8 751 · legal and administrative 5 336 · UN documents 109 773.

## protège

Used about 104 310 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 187 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 113 · UN documents ≈ 92 621). Forms: protection, protège, protéger.

- May it **protect** you.
  Que cela te **protège** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12523887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12523887) [\#3190068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3190068))

- “I can never love a man who cannot **protect** me.”
  «Je ne pourrai aimer qu'un homme qui pourra me **protéger**.»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1581)

- As birds hovering, so the LORD of Armies will **protect** Jerusalem. He will **protect** and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”
  Comme des oiseaux déploient les ailes sur leur couvée, Ainsi l’Éternel des armées étendra sa **protection** sur Jérusalem; Il protégera et délivrera, Il épargnera et sauvera.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 31:5)

- The European Union **protects** its citizens.
  par écrit. - L'Union européenne **protège** ses citoyens!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1396153)

- to **protect** public security;
  **protéger** la sécurité publique;
  ([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 1430584)

## droit

Used about 5 991 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 5 717). Forms: droit, droits.

- Of course, copyright already **protects** software codes.
  Bien entendu, des **droits** d'auteur protègent déjà les codes de logiciels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 494698)

- 62. Article 1 of the Constitution **protects** the right to life, among others, by providing that no one shall be deprived of his life.
  La Constitution consacre le **droit** à la vie. Elle prévoit en son article premier que nul ne peut être privé, entre autres droits, de la vie.
  ([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 27847791)

- The law exists, and it also **protects** those who break it in the most shameless way, by which I mean terrorists.
  Le **droit** existe, y compris en faveur de ceux qui le violent de la façon la plus éhontée, à savoir les terroristes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 758263)

- Paragraph 2 of article 14 **protects** the presumption of innocence of everyone charged with a criminal offence.
  579. Selon le paragraphe 2 de l &apos; article 14, toute personne accusée d &apos; une infraction pénale a **droit** à la garantie de la présomption d &apos; innocence.
  ([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 6892224)

- At present, extradition is, without any doubt, a fairly long procedure, but one which **protects** individual rights.
  L'extradition est aujourd'hui, sans aucun doute, une procédure assez longue, mais protectrice des **droits** individuels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 267073)

## contre

Used about 1 426 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 278 · UN documents ≈ 1 143).

- Broccoli seedlings **protect** against cancer.
  Les plantules de brocoli protègent **contre** le cancer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BilalBouy and BilalBouy · checked, community translation · [\#9754502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9754502) [\#9754500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9754500))

- Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and **protect** the poor, suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France.
  Résolvez les deux problèmes, encouragez le riche et protégez le pauvre, supprimez la misère, mettez un terme à l'exploitation injuste du faible par le fort, mettez un frein à la jalousie inique de celui qui est en route **contre** celui qui est arrivé, ajustez mathématiquement et fraternellement le salaire au travail, mêlez l'enseignement gratuit et obligatoire à la croissance de l'enfance et faites de la science la base de la virilité, développez les intelligences tout en occupant les bras, soyez à la fois un peuple puissant et une famille d'hommes heureux, démocratisez la propriété, non en l'abolissant, mais en l'universalisant, de façon que tout citoyen sans exception soit propriétaire, chose plus facile qu'on ne croit, en deux mots sachez produire la richesse et sachez la répartir; et vous aurez tout ensemble la grandeur matérielle et la grandeur morale; et vous serez dignes de vous appeler la France.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18308)

- The mountain also **protects** the area from the mistral, the sometimes violent wind that predominates in the Rhône valley.
  Ce relief a également un effet protecteur **contre** le mistral, vent dominant parfois violent dans la vallée du Rhône.
  ([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 3313110)

- 99. The Land Acquisition Act **protects** Myanmar citizens from forced eviction or confiscation of land.
  99. La loi relative à l &apos; acquisition de biens fonciers protégeait les citoyens du Myanmar **contre** les expulsions forcées ou la confiscation de biens.
  ([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 23992596)

- Taking action to prevent and **protect** against unnecessary injuries if properly carried out, will have a positive effect on resources;
  L’adoption de mesures de prévention et de protection **contre** les blessures évitables exercera un effet positif sur les ressources.
  ([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 2046170)

## More sentences

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

- The cats will **protect** us from the phantoms.
  Les chats nous protégeront des fantômes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12122228](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12122228) [\#13431977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13431977))

- I will **protect** you from danger.
  Je te protègerai du danger.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and superbolo · checked, community translation · [\#252900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252900) [\#136303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136303))

- I promise I'll **protect** you.
  Je te promets que je te protègerai.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7199867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7199867) [\#1816436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1816436))

## 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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