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# stop — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: stop (31 933), stops (2 315). By style: everyday 2 051 · literary 20 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 6 609 · legal and administrative 2 940 · UN documents 22 602.

## arrête

Used about 10 747 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 346 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 102 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 225 · UN documents ≈ 7 063). Forms: arrêt, arrête, arrêter, arrêts.

- Do you want to **stop**?
  Veux-tu t'**arrêter** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1839456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1839456) [\#1849404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1849404))

- Hans **stops** me by a gesture.
  Hans m'**arrête** d'un signe.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2949)

- Then I said, “Lord GOD, **stop**, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
  Je dis: Seigneur Éternel, **arrête** donc! Comment Jacob subsistera-t-il? Car il est si faible!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 7:5)

- Nevertheless, we must **stop** trying to hide...
  Il faut quand même qu'on **arrête** de se cacher...
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 44735)

- land and **stop** within the FATO.
  d’atterrir et de s’**arrêter** dans la FATO.
  ([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 2709304)

## More sentences

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

- We **stop** loving ourselves when no one loves us.
  On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#868762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/868762) [\#868752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/868752))

- Why didn't Tom **stop**?
  Pourquoi Tom ne s'est-il pas arrêté ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#2273953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2273953) [\#11047273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11047273))

- Let's **stop** and have a break.
  Arrêtons-nous et faisons une pause.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Romira · checked, community translation · [\#10764099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10764099) [\#181729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181729))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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