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# accidents — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: accidents (27 140). By style: everyday 58 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 446 · legal and administrative 2 062 · UN documents 22 573.

## accidents

Used about 21 897 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · parliamentary ≈ 2 293 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 675 · UN documents ≈ 17 870). Forms: accident, accidents.

- Il est fasciné par les **accidents**.
  He's fascinated by **accidents**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hustledynamo and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12203087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12203087) [\#12202854](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12202854))

- Il y a des **accidents** partout.
  There are **accidents** everywhere.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1110867)

- H Statistiques sur les **accidents**
  H Statistics on **accidents**
  ([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 1223631)

- % du nombre total d &apos; **accidents**
  % of the total **accidents**
  ([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 26063703)

- Les **accidents** mortels sont fréquents.
  Fatal **accidents** are common.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Schierbeck · checked, community translation · [\#5648464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5648464) [\#5648521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5648521))

## traffic

Used about 941 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 941). Meaning: [traffic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/traffic/).

- Les **accidents** de la route restent un grave problème de santé publique et de développement.
  Road **traffic** injuries continue to be an important public health and development issue.
  ([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 17998993)

- Il examine la question des traumatismes dus aux **accidents** de la circulation et les défis posés par la prévention des **accidents** de la route et de leurs conséquences.
  It discusses road **traffic** injuries and the challenges relating to the prevention of road crashes and their impacts.
  ([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 10011465)

## More sentences

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

- Quelquefois, il regardait avec égarement une espèce d'étroit plateau formé à quelque dix pieds plus bas par des **accidents** de sculpture, et il demandait au ciel dans le fond de son âme en détresse de pouvoir finir sa vie sur cet espace de deux pieds carrés, dût-elle durer cent années.
  Now and then he glanced wildly at a sort of narrow shelf formed, ten feet lower down, by projections of the sculpture, and he prayed heaven, from the depths of his distressed soul, that he might be allowed to finish his life, were it to last two centuries, on that space two feet square.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 9012)

- Voilà une excellente idée: promouvoir la mobilité tout en prenant des mesures pour prévenir les **accidents** et la pollution de l'environnement.
  That is a fantastic idea - promoting mobility while taking measures to avoid disasters and environmental pollution.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 967096)

- Ceux-ci sont considérés comme faisant partie des **accidents** les plus graves, et il convient d’y remédier.
  They are perceived as one of the most dangerous incidents possible, and must be dealt with.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 587724)

## Grammar

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