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# vulnerable — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: vulnerable (82 274), vulnerables (84). By style: everyday 16 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 743 · legal and administrative 2 132 · UN documents 77 466.

## vulnérable

Used about 78 206 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 400 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 555 · UN documents ≈ 74 238). Forms: vulnerables, vulnérable, vulnérables.

- I feel **vulnerable**.
  Je me sens **vulnérable**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2245757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2245757) [\#4679170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4679170))

- They strike it cleverly in its **vulnerable** spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.
  Ils la frappaient savamment là où elle était **vulnérable**, au défaut de sa cuirasse, à son manque de logique; ils attaquaient cette révolution dans sa royauté.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18240)

- They also help very **vulnerable** consumers.
  Elles aident aussi les consommateurs très **vulnérables**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1090815)

- **vulnerable** road users, vision and visibility;
  aux usagers **vulnérables** de la route, à la vision et à la visibilité;
  ([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 5032911)

- Personas **vulnerables** a la pobreza
  Personas **vulnerables** a la pobreza
  ([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 25721983)

## particulièrement

Used about 940 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 133 · UN documents ≈ 807).

- The poppy requires special adjustment of individual parts of machinery since the poppy seed is extremely **vulnerable** to mechanical damage.
  Le pavot nécessite, en effet, un réglage spécial de certaines parties des machines utilisées, car sa graine craint **particulièrement** les chocs mécaniques.
  ([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 3186014)

- Unaccompanied and separated children, especially girls, are particularly **vulnerable** to trafficking.
  Les enfants non accompagnés et séparés de leur famille, en particulier les filles, sont **particulièrement** exposés à la traite.
  ([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 13022424)

- The limited ability of those regions to diversify, owing to their natural characteristics, makes the banana sector particularly **vulnerable**.
  La faible capacité de diversification de ces régions, conséquence de leurs caractéristiques naturelles, fait de la banane un secteur productif **particulièrement** sensible.
  ([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 2866018)

## groupes

Used about 57 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 57).

- And a third example: **vulnerable** groups in society.
  Je citerai comme troisième exemple les **groupes** à risque, c'est-à-dire les jeunes qui n'ont pas accès au marché de l'emploi.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1659691)

## More sentences

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

- Mr Smith is **vulnerable** to this kind of criticism.
  Monsieur Smith est sensible à ce genre de critique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Snout · checked, community translation · [\#51547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51547) [\#531830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/531830))

- Tom is **vulnerable** to blackmail.
  Tom est sujet au chantage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12748533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12748533) [\#12748853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12748853))

- We are never as **vulnerable** as when we love.
  Nous ne sommes jamais autant susceptibles que lorsque nous aimons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1743475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1743475) [\#1213464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1213464))

## 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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