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# attaquer — French to English

How French *attaquer* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: attaquaient (159), attaquait (171), attaque (19 102), attaquent (1 622), attaquer (28 583), attaques (32 186), attaquez (27), attaquons (169), attaqué (5 075), attaquée (1 309), attaquées (727), attaqués (1 571). By style: everyday 237 · literary 30 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 7 008 · legal and administrative 2 507 · UN documents 80 867.

## attack

Used about 45 051 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 184 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 278 · legal and administrative ≈ 748 · UN documents ≈ 40 814). Forms: attack, attacked, attacks. Meaning: [attack in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/attack/).

- Ne m'**attaque** pas !
  Don't **attack** me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4401092](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4401092) [\#4403898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4403898))

- Et puis on **attaque** la religion.
  And then, religion is **attacked**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11627)

- Et vous, ne vous arrêtez pas, poursuivez vos ennemis, et **attaquez**-les par derrière; ne les laissez pas entrer dans leurs villes, car l’Éternel, votre Dieu, les a livrés entre vos mains.
  but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and **attack** them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 10:19)

- La culture arabe est **attaquée**.
  The Arab culture is under **attack**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1230816)

- La deuxième **attaque** s'est produite le 3 mars 2014.
  The second **attack** occurred on 3 March 2014.
  ([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 4147413)

## address

Used about 7 394 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 226 · legal and administrative ≈ 162 · UN documents ≈ 7 005). Meaning: [address in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/address/).

- On doit s'**attaquer** à ces problèmes.
  We need to **address** those issues.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9458343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9458343) [\#12240037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12240037))

- Nous devons aussi nous **attaquer** aux causes.
  We must also **address** the causes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 954301)

- Il est important que les États membres s'**attaquent** à ces deux risques sanitaires.
  It is important that Member States **address** both of these health hazards.
  ([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 2861366)

- Il faut donc s &apos; **attaquer** au problème de l &apos; abandon scolaire.
  There is, therefore, the need to **address** the drop-out 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 27940631)

- Nous devons nous **attaquer** à ce problème, c'est vital.
  It is vitally important we **address** this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1573804)

## contested

Used about 1 224 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 15 · legal and administrative ≈ 600 · UN documents ≈ 609).

- Permettez-moi toutefois de faire remarquer qu'en ne tenant pas compte des intérêts des actionnaires, les décisions prises par la direction de ces entreprises peuvent être **attaquées** en justice par n'importe quel actionnaire.
  However, I may point out that if they do not take shareholders' interests into account, management decisions may be **contested** by any shareholder before the courts.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 211208)

- spécifier la décision **attaquée**;
  specify the decision **contested**;
  ([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 3237590)

- Le 29 juin 2004, le Ministère de la protection sociale a confirmé la décision **attaquée**.
  On 29 June 2004, the Ministry of Social Protection upheld the **contested** decision.
  ([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 25919115)

- APPRÉCIATION DE LA MESURE **ATTAQUÉE**
  ASSESSMENT OF THE **CONTESTED** MEASURE
  ([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 4160018)

- L &apos; étranger dispose d &apos; un délai de quinze jours ou d &apos; un mois à partir de la notification de la décision **attaquée** pour introduire un recours.
  A foreign national has 15 days or one month from the date of notification of the **contested** decision to bring an appeal.
  ([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 20442822)

## More sentences

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

- J'apprécie le nouveau. Il ne craint pas de s'**attaquer** à des tâches difficiles.
  I like the new guy. He's not afraid to take on challenging work.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#242322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/242322) [\#7838982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7838982))

- Pour commencer, nous devons **attaquer** le problème.
  To begin with, we must tackle the problem.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#32762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32762) [\#488745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/488745))

- Le président est trop lâche pour s'**attaquer** à ce problème.
  The president is too craven to tackle this problem.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and rul · checked, community translation · [\#11509694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11509694) [\#11509696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11509696))

## Grammar

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