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# catastrophes — French to English

How French *catastrophes* 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: catastrophes (59 528). By style: everyday 7 · literary 4 · parliamentary 3 020 · legal and administrative 1 044 · UN documents 55 453.

## disasters

Used about 56 980 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 2 831 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 001 · UN documents ≈ 53 142). Forms: disaster, disasters.

- J'aime regarder des films **catastrophes**.
  I like watching **disaster** movies.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and meirad · checked, community translation · [\#4873726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4873726) [\#11240094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11240094))

- 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)

- C. Tendances du financement lié aux **catastrophes** naturelles
  C. Funding trends related to natural **disasters**
  ([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 28831381)

- Une série de **catastrophes** a frappé la région.
  A string of **disasters** struck the region.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#244189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244189) [\#12803084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12803084))

## natural

Used about 1 155 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 155). 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)

## More sentences

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

- Ces quelques années de bonheur, brusquement terminées par la plus épouvantable des **catastrophes**, se ravivèrent dans son esprit. Tous leurs détails, si légers qu'ils fussent, lui revinrent à la mémoire avec une telle netteté, que la réalité n'eût peut-être pas été plus « réelle » !
  Those few years of happiness, abruptly ended by the most terrible catastrophes, were resurrected in his mind. All the details, no matter how slight they were, came back to memory with such clarity that reality perhaps could not have been more "real"!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by samir\_t and urro · checked, community translation · [\#12588512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12588512) [\#12588505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12588505))

- On y respire la fétidité énorme des **catastrophes** sociales.
  One there breathes the enormous fetidness of social catastrophes.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27364)

- Je reconnus immédiatement, dans cette galerie, la présence d'une notable quantité de ce fluide dangereux auquel les mineurs ont donné le nom de grisou, et dont l'explosion a si souvent causé d'épouvantables **catastrophes**.
  I immediately recognised in this gallery the presence of a considerable quantity of the dangerous gas called by miners firedamp, the explosion of which has often occasioned such dreadful catastrophes.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1773)

## 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/).

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