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By style: everyday 14 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 140 · legal and administrative 230 · UN documents 30 354. ## degrading Used about 28 457 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 28 457). - **cruels**, inhumains ou dégradants or **Degrading** Treatment or Punishment ([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 12433255) - **cruels**, inhumains ou dégradants or **degrading** treatment or punishment ([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 4823357) - ou traitements **cruels**, inhumains ou dégradants Inhuman or **Degrading** Treatment or Punishment ([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 2433120) - ou traitements **cruels**, inhumains ou dégradants 10 - 15 6 or **degrading** treatment or punishment 10 - 15 5 ([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 29152039) - autres peines ou traitements **cruels**, inhumains ou dégradants Inhuman or **Degrading** Treatment or Punishment ([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 3925084) ## inhuman Used about 635 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 632). Meaning: [inhuman in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/inhuman/). - Il existe suffisamment de preuves de traitements **cruels** des chats et des chiens élevés pour leur fourrure. There is plenty of evidence of the **inhuman** treatment of cats and dogs bred for fur. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 940922) - Questions de fond: Droit à la liberté et à la sécurité; torture et traitements **cruels** et inhumains; droit à la vie. Substantive issues: Right to liberty and security; torture and cruel and **inhuman** treatment, right to life ([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 27624171) ## torture Used about 632 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 632). Meaning: [torture in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/torture/). - Violation de la convention contre la torture et peines ou autres traitements **cruels** inhumains ou dégradants, articles 288 et 295 du Code pénal. Violation of the Convention against **Torture** and articles 288 and 295 of the Criminal Code ([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 24144550) ## cruel Used about 327 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 82 · legal and administrative ≈ 230). Meaning: [cruel in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cruel/). - Les enfants peuvent être **cruels**. Children can be **cruel**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#7575304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7575304) [\#7575521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7575521)) - Ils portent l’arc et le javelot; Ils sont **cruels**, sans miséricorde; Leur voix mugit comme la mer; Ils sont montés sur des chevaux, Prêts à combattre comme un seul homme, Contre toi, fille de Babylone! They take up bow and spear. They are **cruel**, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 50:42) - On y recourt à la torture et à d’autres traitements **cruels**, inhumains ou dégradants. Torture and other **cruel**, inhuman or degrading treatment is used. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 805619) - Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements **cruels**, inhumains ou dégradants Convention Against Torture and other **Cruel**, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ([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 689659) - Comment pouvez-vous être si **cruels** ? How can you be so **cruel**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2275626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2275626) [\#2281388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2281388)) ## convention Used about 3 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3). Meaning: [convention in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/convention/). - Aux termes de la conférence de Montevideo, nous sommes tenus selon la législation internationale de reconnaître ces régimes **cruels** en tant qu'États indépendants et souverains. Under the Montevideo **Convention**, we are compelled by international law to recognise these brutal regimes as sovereign independent states. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2008718) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les mensonges les plus **cruels** sont souvent dits en silence. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#906639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/906639) [\#906673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/906673)) - insensibles, déloyaux, calomniateurs, intempérants, **cruels**, ennemis des gens de bien, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 3:3) - Je sais qu’il s’introduira parmi vous, après mon départ, des loups **cruels** qui n’épargneront pas le troupeau, For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 20:29) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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