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# threat — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: threat (69 733), threats (47 400). By style: everyday 66 · literary 1 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 6 779 · legal and administrative 4 273 · UN documents 106 010.

## menace

Used about 83 022 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 5 367 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 605 · UN documents ≈ 73 986). Forms: menace, menaces.

- Tom's a **threat**.
  Tom est une **menace**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#3111676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3111676) [\#9602797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9602797))

- This boyish **threat** quite overcame her; she clasped Jean in a passionate and tender embrace.
  Elle fut bouleversée par cette **menace** puérile et étreignit Jean en le caressant avec une tendresse passionnée.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1908)

- Now, Lord, look at their **threats**, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
  Et maintenant, Seigneur, vois leurs **menaces**, et donne à tes serviteurs d’annoncer ta parole avec une pleine assurance,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 4:29)

- There is no room for a **threat** to stability.
  Aucune **menace** pour la stabilité n'a sa place.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 952272)

- in order to prevent **threats**,
  pour la prévention de **menaces**.
  ([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 1370393)

## sécurité

Used about 2 439 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 141 · legal and administrative ≈ 89 · UN documents ≈ 2 209).

- The EU is coming increasingly to regard refugees and asylum-seekers as a **threat** to national security.
  Aujourd'hui, l'UE considère de plus en plus les réfugiés et les demandeurs d'asile comme un risque pour sa **sécurité**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977163)

- Ability to assess needs of casualties and **threats** to own safety.
  Aptitude à évaluer les besoins des victimes et les risques pour sa propre **sécurité**.
  ([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 5129374)

- Expected accomplishment 2.2: reduced **threat** of mines in the temporary security zone and its adjacent areas
  : diminution des dangers des mines dans la zone temporaire de **sécurité** et les zones adjacentes
  ([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 13099765)

- Ladies and gentlemen, **threats** to security and world peace are not posed simply by armed conflicts and groups that are prepared to fight to achieve their goals.
  Mesdames et Messieurs, la **sécurité** et la paix dans le monde ne sont pas menacées uniquement par les conflits armés et par les mouvements qui recourent à la lutte.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 547444)

- suspend an approval on reasonable grounds in the case of potential safety **threat**; or
  suspendre un agrément sur des motifs valables dans le cas d'un risque potentiel en matière de **sécurité**, ou
  ([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 3429109)

## contre

Used about 115 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 71 · legal and administrative ≈ 45).

- At the same time, the struggle against impunity is under **threat**.
  En même temps, on met en danger la lutte **contre** l'impunité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 16785)

- Capacity to deal with a pandemic influenza and tackle particular health **threats** (Annex — points 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.8)
  Capacité de lutte **contre** une pandémie de grippe et contre des risques sanitaires spécifiques (annexe — points 2.1 à 2.4 et 2.8)
  ([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 1113974)

## More sentences

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

- Sane people are more of a **threat** to mentally ill people than vice versa.
  Les personnes en bonne santé mentale sont plus dangereuses pour les malades mentaux que l'inverse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#10923883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10923883) [\#10925406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10925406))

- I'm a jack of all trades, a real triple **threat**. They'll try to stop me, but I'll be rising up the ranks in no time.
  Je suis un homme-à-tout-faire, un vrai danger public. Ils tenteront de m'arrêter mais je me hisserai au sommet en un rien de temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slyfin and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4606219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4606219) [\#4609387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4609387))

- If a nation's existence isn't under **threat**, war is a crime.
  Si l’existence même d’une nation n’est pas menacée, la guerre est un crime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13995683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13995683) [\#13995670](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13995670))

## 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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