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# violent — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: violent (23 332), violents (43). By style: everyday 64 · literary 24 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 1 375 · legal and administrative 617 · UN documents 21 285.

## violent

Used about 19 707 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 61 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 146 · legal and administrative ≈ 463 · UN documents ≈ 18 010). Forms: violence, violent, violente, violents.

- Tom wasn't **violent**.
  Tom n'était pas **violent**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Jio15 · checked, community translation · [\#2244732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2244732) [\#2532037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2532037))

- A **violent** gesture finished the sentence.
  Un geste **violent** acheva sa pensée.
  ([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 139)

- not a drinker, not **violent**, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  Il faut qu’il ne soit ni adonné au vin, ni **violent**, mais indulgent, pacifique, désintéressé.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 3:3)

- Let us honour his memory and his non-**violent** protest in this House.
  Respectons ici sa mémoire et son action non **violente**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 619117)

- **Violent** (high speed) winds.
  Vents **violents** (grande vitesse).
  ([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 3052228)

## More sentences

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

- We have to be prepared to cope with **violent** storms.
  Nous devons nous préparer à faire face à de violentes tempêtes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#238498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238498) [\#3452268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3452268))

- John had a **violent** quarrel with his wife.
  John s'est violemment disputé avec sa femme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#52606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52606) [\#11813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11813))

- When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a **violent** attempt to mistreat and stone them,
  Et comme les païens et les Juifs, de concert avec leurs chefs, se mettaient en mouvement pour les outrager et les lapider,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 14:5)

## 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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