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# défendre — French to English

How French *défendre* 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: défendre (26 784). By style: everyday 49 · literary 4 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 5 284 · legal and administrative 357 · UN documents 21 084.

## defend

Used about 11 042 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 303 · legal and administrative ≈ 231 · UN documents ≈ 7 467). Forms: defend, defending. Meaning: [defend in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/defend/).

- J'ai dû me **défendre**.
  I had to **defend** myself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2331773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2331773) [\#2431366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2431366))

- «Ce bandit a renoncé à se **défendre**.
  This bandit refused to **defend** himself.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7791)

- Par ces lettres, le roi donnait aux Juifs, en quelque ville qu’ils fussent, la permission de se rassembler et de **défendre** leur vie, de détruire, de tuer et de faire périr, avec leurs petits enfants et leurs femmes, tous ceux de chaque peuple et de chaque province qui prendraient les armes pour les attaquer, et de livrer leurs biens au pillage,
  In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to **defend** their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 8:11)

- Nous devons **défendre** avec vigueur les droits de l'homme.
  We must vigorously **defend** human rights.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1317890)

- de **défendre** les intérêts professionnels de tous les membres du personnel du CSUE;
  **defend** the professional interests of all employees of the SATCEN;
  ([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 4169724)

## interests

Used about 242 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 220 · legal and administrative ≈ 22).

- Le Parlement est la voix de la population de l'UE et doit **défendre** les intérêts de ses citoyens.
  Parliament is the voice of the people of the EU and must uphold the **interests** of its citizens.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1356152)

- Coopération avec les pays tiers afin de promouvoir et **défendre** les intérêts de l’Union ainsi que ceux qu’elle partage avec d’autres pays
  Cooperation with third countries to advance and promote Union and mutual **interests**
  ([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 3779269)

- Dans ce domaine, l'intérêt commun de l'Union européenne doit prendre le pas sur les efforts visant à **défendre** des intérêts particuliers par rapport à la Russie.
  In this matter, the common interest of the European Union must stand above efforts to look after private **interests** in relations with Russia.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1301535)

- Coopération avec les pays tiers afin de promouvoir et de **défendre** les intérêts de l’Union ainsi que ceux qu’elle partage avec d’autres pays
  Cooperation with third countries to advance and promote Union and mutual **interests**
  ([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 4773869)

## More sentences

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

- Nous devons toujours **défendre** nos droits.
  We must always stand up for our rights.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#23267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23267) [\#4957874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4957874))

- N'oubliez pas que dans la plupart des phases finales, le roi passe d'une pièce à **défendre** à une pièce d'attaque.
  Remember that in most endgames, the king changes from a piece to be defended to an attacking piece.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10291471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10291471) [\#10291477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10291477))

- Je sais comment me **défendre**.
  I know how to take care of myself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2375950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2375950) [\#11802547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11802547))

## Grammar

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