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# carbone — French to English

How French *carbone* 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: carbone (31 678), carbones (805). By style: everyday 22 · parliamentary 1 862 · legal and administrative 8 788 · UN documents 21 811.

## carbon

Used about 27 139 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 1 823 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 330 · UN documents ≈ 16 964). Meaning: [carbon in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/carbon/).

- Quid de la taxe **carbone** ?
  What about the **carbon** tax?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1747314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1747314) [\#819082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/819082))

- Nous devons devenir une économie faible en **carbone**.
  We must become a low-**carbon** economy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1316456)

- pas plus de 0,7 % de **carbone**,
  not more than 0,7 % of **carbon**,
  ([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 2693880)

- DIOXYDE DE **CARBONE** SOLIDE (NEIGE CARBONIQUE)
  **CARBON** DIOXIDE, SOLID (DRY ICE)
  ([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 6654992)

- Le charbon est principalement constitué de **carbone**.
  Coal consists mostly of **carbon**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#272237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/272237) [\#128875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128875))

## hydrocarbons

Used about 539 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 539).

- L &apos; Iran déclare que son territoire a été exposé au dépôt humide d &apos; environ 350 000 tonnes de suie, ainsi que d &apos; oxydes d &apos; azote et de soufre, de **carbones** organiques, de métaux lourds et d &apos; hydrocarbures aromatiques polycycliques produits par les incendies de puits de pétrole au Koweït.
  Iran states that its territory was exposed to wet deposition from approximately 350,000 tonnes of soot, as well as nitrogen and sulphur oxides, organic carbons, heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic **hydrocarbons** from the oil well fires in Kuwait.
  ([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 14236455)

- L &apos; Iran déclare encore, en se fondant sur une autre étude, que le territoire iranien a été exposé au dépôt humide d &apos; environ 350 000 tonnes de suie, ainsi que d &apos; oxydes d &apos; azote et de soufre, de **carbones** organiques, de métaux lourds et d &apos; hydrocarbures aromatiques polycycliques ( &lt; &lt; HAP &gt; &gt; ) produits par les incendies de puits de pétrole au Koweït.
  Iran also states, based on another study, that Iranian territory was exposed to wet deposition from approximately 350,000 tons of soot, as well as nitrogen and sulphur oxides, organic carbons, heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic **hydrocarbons** ( &quot; PAH &quot; ) from the oil well fires in Kuwait.
  ([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 12559654)

## More sentences

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

- Pour croître, les plantes exigent du dioxyde de **carbone**.
  Plants require CO2 to grow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2458789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2458789) [\#3645888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3645888))

- Les ministres de l'Environnement ont ensuite repris la proposition du Parlement et nous nous penchons maintenant sur une ligne stricte pour la réduction des émissions industrielles de **carbone**.
  The Ministers of the Environment then adopted Parliament' s proposal and now our job is to demand that industry adopts just as strict a line on nitrogen emissions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2029254)

- Les hydrates de **carbone** (solubles) de chicorée ont été extraits partiellement.
  The (soluble) chicory carbohydrates have been partly extracted.
  ([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 4342714)

## Grammar

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