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# weapons — English to French

How English *weapons* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: weapons (185 570). By style: everyday 77 · literary 4 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 3 595 · legal and administrative 4 135 · UN documents 177 733.

## armes

Used about 169 466 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 2 921 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 532 · UN documents ≈ 162 922).

- Where are the **weapons**?
  Où sont les **armes** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2273931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2273931) [\#5576654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5576654))

- Marius had no longer any **weapons**; he had flung away his discharged pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of powder in the tap-room, near the door.
  Marius n'avait plus d'**armes**, il avait jeté ses pistolets déchargés, mais il avait aperçu le baril de poudre dans la salle basse près de la porte.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24617)

- How the mighty have fallen, and the **weapons** of war have perished!”
  Comment des héros sont-ils tombés? Comment leurs **armes** se sont-elles perdues!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 1:27)

- Atomic **weapons** are still here.
  Les **armes** atomiques sont toujours là.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1862315)

- Machinery and equipment + **Weapons** systems;
  Machines et équipements + systèmes d'**armes**
  ([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 4546063)

## non

Used about 4 047 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 345 · UN documents ≈ 3 703).

- Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, motorised, whether or not fitted with **weapons**, and parts of such vehicles
  Chars et automobiles blindées de combat, armés ou **non**; leurs parties
  ([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 37566)

- The 1995 REVIEW AND EXTENSION CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE TREATY ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR **WEAPONS** (NPT) will take place at Headquarters from 17 April to 12 May 1995.
  The 1995 REVIEW AND EXTENSION CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE TREATY ON THE **NON**-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS (NPT) will take place at Headquarters from 17 April to 12 May 1995.
  ([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 2107633)

## nucléaires

Used about 3 703 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 703).

- The world must create a safe, orderly system to field civilian nuclear plants without adding to the danger of **weapons** proliferation.
  Le monde doit créer un système ordonné et sans danger autorisant la mise en place d &apos; installations **nucléaires** à usage civil sans accroître les dangers de prolifération des armements.
  ([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 11794019)

## chimiques

Used about 75 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 75).

- Chemical **weapons** were sunk here after World War II in the late 1940s.
  Ces armements **chimiques** ont été coulés ici après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale à la fin des années 40.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1280588)

## guerre

Used about 4 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2).

- A neutral country is a country that doesn't sell **weapons** to a warring country, unless you pay cash.
  Un pays neutre, c'est un pays qui ne vend pas d'arme à un pays en **guerre**, sauf si on paie comptant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#491209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/491209) [\#491204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/491204))

- Wisdom is better than **weapons** of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
  La sagesse vaut mieux que les instruments de **guerre**; mais un seul pécheur détruit beaucoup de bien.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 9:18)

- “You are my battle ax and **weapons** of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.
  Tu as été pour moi un marteau, un instrument de **guerre**. J’ai brisé par toi des nations, Par toi j’ai détruit des royaumes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 51:20)

## More sentences

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

- I have no **weapons**.
  Je ne dispose d'aucune arme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3727404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3727404) [\#7839030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7839030))

- **Weapons** free my friend. **Weapons** free.
  Feu à volonté, mon ami. Feu à volonté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13867684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13867684) [\#13867685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13867685))

- I have no **weapons**.
  Je n'ai pas d'arme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3727404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3727404) [\#2421321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2421321))

## Grammar

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