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# vulnerability — English to French

How English *vulnerability* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: vulnerabilities (5 993), vulnerability (28 203). By style: everyday 3 · parliamentary 316 · legal and administrative 618 · UN documents 33 259.

## vulnérabilité

Used about 24 700 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 226 · legal and administrative ≈ 567 · UN documents ≈ 23 905). Forms: vulnérabilité, vulnérabilités.

- Everyone has **vulnerabilities**.
  Tout le monde a des **vulnérabilités**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4269847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4269847) [\#8751219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8751219))

- Dependency on any single resource leads to market **vulnerability**.
  Être tributaire d’une seule ressource mène à la **vulnérabilité** du marché.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 697625)

- Assessment of the **vulnerability**.
  Évaluation de la **vulnérabilité**.
  ([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 3052158)

- C. Composite **vulnerability** index: a revised report
  C. Indice composite de **vulnérabilité** : rapport révisé
  ([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 4583217)

- Espionage exploits **vulnerabilities**.
  L’espionnage exploite les **vulnérabilités**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12767064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12767064) [\#13365252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13365252))

## risques

Used about 693 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 693).

- 1. Mapping of risks and **vulnerabilities**.
  1. Carte des **risques** et des faiblesses
  ([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 15306343)

- There was typical **vulnerability** to natural hazards, such as storms, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, fires, landslides and tsunamis.
  Ces pays étaient en général exposés aux **risques** naturels, tels que tempêtes, éruptions volcaniques, séismes, incendies, glissements de terrain et tsunamis.
  ([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 22873864)

## réduire

Used about 351 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 5 · UN documents ≈ 346).

- At the technical level, as part of the Information Society Technologies Programme, the Commission is promoting research and development to understand and reduce **vulnerabilities** and stimulate the dissemination of know-how.
  Au niveau technique, dans le cadre du programme Technologies de la société de l'information, la Commission promeut la recherche et le développement visant à comprendre et **réduire** les faiblesses et à encourager la diffusion du savoir-faire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 227877)

- (b) Integrated flood management approaches to reduce flood **vulnerability**;
  b) Stratégies intégrées de gestion des crues pour **réduire** les risques d &apos; inondation;
  ([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 10655582)

## adaptation

Used about 346 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 346).

- f) **Vulnerability** and adaptation assessment;
  f) Vulnerability and **adaptation** assessment;
  ([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 24830234)

## More sentences

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

- Large number of immigrants, with special emphasis on women, face multiple discrimination and **vulnerability** to social exclusion.
  (EN) Un grand nombre d'immigrants, en particulier des femmes, sont confrontés à de multiples discriminations et exposés à l'exclusion sociale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 865605)

- But this small-scale structure also creates **vulnerability** and disadvantages in a world moving towards globalization.
  Mais cette petite structure étonne et comporte des inconvénients dans notre monde de globalisation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1709254)

- It is not just children' s human dignity that must be defended, even though their natural **vulnerability** justifies our affording them major protection.
  La dignité de la personne humaine n' est pas réservée aux enfants, même si leur fragilité naturelle justifie de notre part une plus grande protection.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 33022)

## Grammar

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