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# risk — English to French

How English *risk* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: risk (219 367), risks (66 291). By style: everyday 262 · literary 10 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 17 538 · legal and administrative 72 163 · UN documents 195 684.

## risques

Used about 235 766 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 229 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 14 250 · legal and administrative ≈ 68 405 · UN documents ≈ 152 878). Forms: risque, risques.

- Don't run **risks**.
  Ne cours pas de **risques**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by al\_ex\_an\_der and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#20715](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20715) [\#9357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9357))

- At our own **risk** and peril, let us violate this injunction.
  À nos **risques** et périls, nous enfreignons cette défense.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7403)

- We must avoid unknown **risks**.
  Nous devons éviter les **risques** inconnus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 136176)

- Non-life underwriting **risk**
  **Risque** de souscription en non-vie
  ([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 3765662)

- Common approach to **risk** management/analysis;
  Approche commune de la gestion/analyse des **risques**;
  ([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 10671463)

## More sentences

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

- Policemen work at the **risk** of their own lives.
  Les policiers travaillent au péril de leur vie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#238398](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238398) [\#8872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8872))

- Don't try to whiten them with chemicals, because you **risk** damaging them.
  N'essaie pas de les blanchir avec des produits chimiques, car tu risquerais de les endommager.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13813000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13813000) [\#12694784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12694784))

- We can't **risk** it.
  Nous ne pouvons pas risquer cela.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#1954802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1954802) [\#1987424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1987424))

## 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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