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# corruption — French to English

How French *corruption* 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: corruption (60 102), corruptione (2), corruptions (15). By style: everyday 22 · literary 2 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 3 014 · legal and administrative 1 440 · UN documents 55 627.

## corruption

Used about 53 306 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 843 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 410 · UN documents ≈ 49 027). Meaning: [corruption in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/corruption/).

- La **corruption** était un problème.
  **Corruption** was a problem.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4494289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494289) [\#6210383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6210383))

- Il y a **corruption** sous les tyrans illustres, mais la peste morale est plus hideuse encore sous les tyrans infâmes.
  There is **corruption** under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22929)

- Car tu ne livreras pas mon âme au séjour des morts, Tu ne permettras pas que ton bien-aimé voie la **corruption**.
  For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see **corruption**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 16:10)

- Les faits prouvent qu'il y a eu **corruption**.
  The facts prove that **corruption** has taken place.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1460097)

- **corruption** active et passive;
  active and passive **corruption**;
  ([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 5082064)

## against

Used about 943 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 943).

- Convention des Nations Unies contre la **corruptione** e Résolution 58/4, annexe.
  Crime and the Protocols thereto and of the United Nations Convention **against**
  ([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 13764895)

## More sentences

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

- Il y a des gens qui détestent la **corruption** parce qu'ils n'ont pas eu leur part.
  Some people hate graft because they didn't get their share.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#8299015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8299015) [\#11150161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11150161))

- Il est connu pour sa moralité. Il n'a jamais été impliqué dans un acte de **corruption**.
  He is known for his decency. He has never been involved in a corrupt act.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2372720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2372720) [\#8966246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8966246))

- Il méprisait la **corruption**.
  He disdained bribery.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#300916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300916) [\#132847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132847))

## 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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