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# charge — French to English

How French *charge* 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: charge (142 974), charges (42 395). By style: everyday 87 · literary 15 · biblical 49 · parliamentary 6 745 · legal and administrative 32 958 · UN documents 145 515.

## charges

Used about 31 326 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 562 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 433 · UN documents ≈ 27 284). Forms: charge, charges.

- Nous sommes en **charge**.
  We're in **charge**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2240591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240591) [\#4801659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4801659))

- Tout à coup le tambour battit la **charge**.
  All at once, the drum beat the **charge**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26983)

- Nous proposons des moyens de financement en vue d'alléger les **charges** financières des entreprises, pas les **charges** sociales.
  We propose financing resources to alleviate corporate financial overheads, not loan **charges**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1850518)

- les étuis combustibles pour **charges**;
  Combustible cases for **charges**;
  ([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 4227946)

- Landing fees an ground handling **charges**: liquidation phase 140
  Landing fees and ground handling **charges**: liquidation phase 142
  ([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 8167)

## load

Used about 16 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 141 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 180 · UN documents ≈ 10 610). Meaning: [load in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/load/).

- Nous devons réduire la **charge**.
  We have to lighten the **load**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2259761](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2259761) [\#7524707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7524707))

- L'échelle, lancée en arrière, resta un moment droite et debout et parut hésiter, puis oscilla, puis tout à coup, décrivant un effrayant arc de cercle de quatre-vingts pieds de rayon, s'abattit sur le pavé avec sa **charge** de bandits plus rapidement qu'un pont-levis dont les chaînes se cassent.
  The ladder, launched backwards, remained erect and standing for an instant, and seemed to hesitate, then wavered, then suddenly, describing a frightful arc of a circle eighty feet in radius, crashed upon the pavement with its **load** of ruffians, more rapidly than a drawbridge when its chains break.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7241)

- Qu’ils jugent le peuple en tout temps; qu’ils portent devant toi toutes les affaires importantes, et qu’ils prononcent eux-mêmes sur les petites causes. Allège ta **charge**, et qu’ils la portent avec toi.
  Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the **load** with you.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 18:22)

- Il faut réduire la **charge** polluante due aux transports.
  The pollution **load** from transport has to be lowered.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1043402)

- Pertes maximales dues à la **charge** (W) \[3\]
  Maximum **load** losses (in W) \[3\]
  ([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 3325757)

## burden

Used about 13 350 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 2 178 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 060 · UN documents ≈ 9 095). Meaning: [burden in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/burden/).

- Je ne veux plus être aucune **charge** pour mes parents.
  I don't want to be any more **burden** to my parents.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#325671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325671) [\#135606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135606))

- David lui dit: Si tu viens avec moi, tu me seras à **charge**.
  David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a **burden** to me;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 15:33)

- Songez par exemple à la modification de la **charge** de la preuve.
  The change in the **burden** of proof is just one example of this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 56113)

- Analyse de la **charge** et du bénéfice au niveau national, par exemple au moyen de la prise en compte:
  Analysis of the **burden** and benefit at the national level through for example a consideration of:
  ([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 937463)

- Qui doit participer au partage de la **charge** ?
  Who should participate in **burden**-sharing?
  ([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 4662372)

## More sentences

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

- L'académie kabyle prépare une plateforme qui prendra en **charge** tout le programme scolaire kabyle et ce de la maternelle à l'universitaire.
  The Kabyle academy is preparing a platform that will take care of the entire Kabyle school program from kindergarten to university.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#11248794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11248794) [\#11248779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11248779))

- Je m’en **charge**.
  I've got this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#8309495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8309495) [\#12048238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12048238))

- Le bourreau est en **charge** de faire le sale boulot.
  The executioner is responsible for doing the dirty work.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7311422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7311422) [\#8571750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8571750))

## 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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