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# strong — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: strong (76 466). By style: everyday 418 · literary 21 · biblical 189 · parliamentary 10 023 · legal and administrative 3 000 · UN documents 62 815.

## fort

Used about 15 063 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 322 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 79 · parliamentary ≈ 4 176 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 313 · UN documents ≈ 9 161). Forms: fort, forte, fortes.

- A lion is **strong**.
  Le lion est **fort**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and fs · checked, community translation · [\#1392505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1392505) [\#611160](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/611160))

- There are things which are too **strong** for the strongest man.
  Il est des choses plus **fortes** que l'homme le plus fort.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12156)

- with a **strong** hand, and with an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness endures forever;
  A main **forte** et à bras étendu, Car sa miséricorde dure à toujours!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 136:12)

- Madam President, I say 'yes' to **strong** links between Europe and Algeria.
  Madame la Présidente, oui à des relations **fortes** entre l'Europe et l'Algérie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 371419)

- Neutralisation (**strong** acid) number
  Indice de neutralisation (acide **fort**)
  ([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 5439771)

## More sentences

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

- Taro has a **strong** sense of responsibility.
  Taro a un grand sens des responsabilités.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#275197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275197) [\#334190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334190))

- A man of **strong** will is not subject to corruption.
  Un homme de volonté ne peut être corrompu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yepthatscool and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#28211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28211) [\#390658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390658))

- Big people aren't always **strong**.
  Les gens qui sont grands ne sont pas toujours forts.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and RoiOfTheSuisse · checked, community translation · [\#464654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/464654) [\#1589563](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1589563))

## 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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