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# contre — French to English

How French *contre* 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: contre (870 116), contres (127). By style: everyday 1 008 · literary 104 · biblical 1 095 · parliamentary 56 664 · legal and administrative 37 107 · UN documents 774 265.

## against

Used about 424 495 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 535 · literary ≈ 65 · biblical ≈ 844 · parliamentary ≈ 31 368 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 616 · UN documents ≈ 379 067).

- Est-elle **contre** toi ?
  Is she **against** you?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13436464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13436464) [\#12717950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12717950))

- Résister seul **contre** deux?
  Could I stand **against** the two?
  ([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 3316)

- Ils ouvrent la bouche **contre** nous, Tous ceux qui sont nos ennemis.
  “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide **against** us.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:46)

- Nous avons donc voté **contre** la recommandation.
  We therefore voted **against**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 857534)

- A, par le passé, orchestré la violence **contre** les dissidents.
  History of directing violence **against** dissidents.
  ([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 2363895)

## protection

Used about 75 083 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 012 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 484 · UN documents ≈ 72 587). Meaning: [protection in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protection/).

- Nous y disposons d' un système de protection **contre** les incendies qui n' utilise aucune de ces substances dangereuses.
  We have a fire **protection** system of this kind there which manages without any of these dangerous substances.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2043239)

- Services de protection **contres** les matières toxiques
  Toxic substances **protection** services
  ([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 1497234)

- j) Déclaration sur la protection de toutes les personnes **contres** les disparitions forcées
  (j) Declaration on the **Protection** of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
  ([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 1197106)

- Dispositifs avant de protection anti-encastrement et leur montage; protection **contre** l'encastrement à l'avant
  Front underrun protective devices (FUPDs) and their installation; front underrun **protection** (FUP)
  ([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 3583188)

- Cette loi établit une protection spécifique **contres** les risques pendant la grossesse ;
  It also improves the regime for the granting of leave and unpaid leave for family reasons and establishes specific **protection** for risks during pregnancy;
  ([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 10641657)

## measures

Used about 16 026 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 024 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 937 · UN documents ≈ 8 065).

- Nous devons également mener une action **contre** ce phénomène.
  In this area too we must take **measures**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1634310)

- Les mesures de lutte **contre** la maladie prévues à l'article 74, paragraphe 1, sont:
  The disease control **measures** provided for in Article 74(1) shall be:
  ([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 3964522)

- 127. Outre l &apos; intervention urgente, le Gouvernement australien finance une série de programmes et de mesures qui aident directement ou indirectement à prévenir les sévices **contres** les enfants.
  127. In addition to the Emergency Response, the Australian Government funds a range of programs and **measures** that directly or indirectly assist in the prevention of child abuse.
  ([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 24303180)

- Une équipe du ministère de l'agriculture est venue en Europe la semaine dernière pour se faire une idée des mesures de lutte **contres** les épidémies dans les pays membres.
  Following this invitation, a team from the US Department of Agriculture came to Europe last week, to give itself a picture of the **measures** for combatting epidemics in the Member States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1788072)

- La directive 2002/60/CE du Conseil \[3\] établit les mesures minimales de lutte **contre** la peste porcine africaine à appliquer dans l'Union.
  Council Directive 2002/60/EC \[3\] lays down minimum **measures** to be applied within the Union for the control of African swine fever.
  ([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 4191335)

## More sentences

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

- Vous devez agir **contre** lui.
  You need to sue him.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13328632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13328632) [\#13328592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13328592))

- Avez-vous reçu votre vaccin **contre** la grippe saisonnière ?
  Did you receive your flu shot this season?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · [\#9849630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9849630) [\#9869884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9869884))

- Ne sois pas en colère **contre** moi s'il te plaît.
  Please don't be angry at me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and CM · checked, community translation · [\#6944410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6944410) [\#6944443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6944443))

## Grammar

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