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# tolerance — English to French

How English *tolerance* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: tolerance (30 758), tolerances (5 725). By style: everyday 13 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 323 · legal and administrative 3 390 · UN documents 31 756.

## tolérance

Used about 34 530 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 203 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 213 · UN documents ≈ 30 102). Forms: tolérance, tolérances.

- I have a low **tolerance** for pain.
  J'ai une faible **tolérance** à la douleur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6663795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6663795) [\#12468681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12468681))

- Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the same **tolerance**, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will perhaps remember, the Thénardiers’ hostelry was situated.
  Des bateleurs venus de Paris avaient obtenu de Mr le maire la permission de dresser leurs baraques dans la grande rue du village, et une bande de marchands ambulants avait, sous la même **tolérance**, construit ses échoppes sur la place de l'église et jusque dans la ruelle du Boulanger, où était située, on s'en souvient peut-être, la gargote des Thénardier.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8010)

- Similarly, social **tolerance** needs to be developed.
  De même, la **tolérance** sociale doit être développée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 961098)

- **Tolerance** for marking eggs
  **Tolérance** concernant le marquage des œufs
  ([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 1243451)

- - **Tolerances**(by count or by weight?).
  **Tolérances** (selon comptage ou poids).
  ([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 11192409)

## chaque

Used about 35 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 35).

- Speed **tolerances** greater than those prescribed shall be accepted during phase changes provided that the **tolerances** are never exceeded for more than 0,5 s on any one occasion.
  Aux changements de mode, des écarts sur la vitesse dépassant les valeurs prescrites sont admis, à condition que la durée des écarts constatés ne dépasse jamais 0,5 seconde **chaque** fois.
  ([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 5442654)

## More sentences

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

- "You don't like alcohol?" "No, I like drinking, I just have terrible **tolerance**."
  « T’aimes pas l’alcool ? » « Si, j’aime bien l’alcool, mais je le tiens pas du tout. »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mactrey and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#4635473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4635473) [\#3810006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3810006))

- Drugs can cause both dependency and **tolerance**.
  Les médicaments peuvent provoquer à la fois de la dépendance et de l'accoutumance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by whitefishglobal and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4823636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4823636) [\#12452790](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12452790))

- At such a late hour, I appreciate that this is a reprehensible abuse of your **tolerance**, and for this I apologise again.
  À une heure aussi tardive, je comprends que cet abus soit répréhensible. Encore une fois, je vous prie de m'en excuser.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 295436)

## 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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