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# wastes — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: wastes (20 862). By style: everyday 6 · literary 1 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 111 · legal and administrative 1 926 · UN documents 18 814.

## déchets

Used about 19 239 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 67 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 926 · UN documents ≈ 17 246).

- What are we to do with our **wastes**?
  Que faire de nos **déchets**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1744824)

- **wastes** from cooling columns
  **déchets** provenant des colonnes de refroidissement
  ([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 2152064)

- IV. Management of radioactive **wastes**
  IV. Gestion des **déchets** radioactifs
  ([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 8082864)

- I also share Mrs Jackson's views on the hierarchy of **wastes**.
  Je partage également l'opinion de Mme Jackson sur la hiérarchie des **déchets**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1743563)

- municipal **wastes** not otherwise specified
  **déchets** municipaux non spécifiés ailleurs
  ([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 1001260)

## dangereux

Used about 392 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 392).

- Hazardous **Wastes** and Their Disposal
  **dangereux** et de leur élimination
  ([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 12858854)

## More sentences

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

- Though he is young, he never **wastes** time.
  Bien qu'il soit jeune, il ne perd jamais de temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#299092](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/299092) [\#1168712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1168712))

- Tom **wastes** a lot of money.
  Tom gaspille beaucoup d'argent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mervert1 · checked, community translation · [\#7842618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7842618) [\#13884855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13884855))

- He is not a man who **wastes** his time.
  Il n'est pas homme à perdre son temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by 100nosewiggles and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7822341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7822341) [\#12232879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12232879))

## 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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