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Meaning: [disaster in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/disaster/). - Ce fut une **catastrophe** absolue. It was an utter **disaster**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5041912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5041912) [\#12005474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12005474)) - Objet : **Catastrophes** maritimes survenues récemment Subject: Recent maritime **disasters** ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409380) - Point 3.2. **Catastrophes** et réactions Agenda 3.2 **Disasters** and Response ([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 867930) - sur la réduction des risques de **catastrophe** on **Disaster** Risk Reduction ([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 30039166) - Tu cours à la **catastrophe**. You're racing toward **disaster**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RCendre and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11953795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11953795) [\#11944723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11944723)) ## catastrophe Used about 4 261 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 543 · legal and administrative ≈ 51 · UN documents ≈ 3 647). Meaning: [catastrophe in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/catastrophe/). - C'est une **catastrophe**. This is a **catastrophe**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2547047](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2547047) [\#5318831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5318831)) - Nous avons dit la **catastrophe** du chemin d'Ohain. We have described the **catastrophe** of the road of Ohain. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7689) - Toutefois, nous ne sommes pas loin d'une **catastrophe**. However, a **catastrophe** is not far away. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1326135) - Risque de **catastrophe** en non-vie Non-life **catastrophe** risk ([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 3766250) - Nous ne pouvons pas rester insensibles face à cette **catastrophe** humanitaire. We cannot remain unaffected by this humanitarian **catastrophe**. ([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 21597264) ## natural Used about 912 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 912). Meaning: [natural in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/natural/). - Le risque national − **catastrophes** naturelles et risques liés aux secteurs public et privé; Country - **natural** hazards and public and private sector risk; ([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 24594857) ## risk Used about 912 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 912). Meaning: [risk in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/risk/). - Caribbean **Catastrophe** Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) Caribbean Catastrophe **Risk** Insurance Facility (CCRIF) ([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 26192476) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il partit en **catastrophe**. He went away in a hurry. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#295216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295216) [\#7425366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7425366)) - La fête d'anniversaire de Yanni a été une **catastrophe**. Yanni's birthday went horribly wrong. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9839027](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9839027) [\#12184824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12184824)) - Il est parti en **catastrophe**. He went away in a hurry. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#295216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295216) [\#7425348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7425348)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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