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# dégradants — French to English

How French *dégradants* 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: dégradants (32 998). By style: parliamentary 96 · legal and administrative 295 · UN documents 32 607.

## degrading

Used about 31 633 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 90 · legal and administrative ≈ 295 · UN documents ≈ 31 248).

- Il est paraît-il question de traitements **dégradants** et inhumains, voire de torture.
  Reports tell of **degrading** and inhuman treatment, even torture.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 644431)

- Ces vêtements ne doivent être ni **dégradants**, ni humiliants.
  Such clothing shall not be **degrading** or humiliating.
  ([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 4226882)

- 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 24152536)

- 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)

- à la torture ou à des traitements ou des peines inhumains ou **dégradants**.
  torture or 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 617238)

## inhuman

Used about 2 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2). Meaning: [inhuman in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/inhuman/).

- En effet, comme nous venons de l'entendre, cet instrument a vocation à servir les droits de l'homme, l'état de droit et la protection de la démocratie, et nous encourageons des droits spécifiques tels que la lutte pour les droits des femmes et des enfants et les combats contre la peine capitale, la torture et les traitements cruels, inhumains et **dégradants**.
  This is because, as we have just heard, this instrument is intended to serve human rights, the rule of law and the protection of democracy, and we are promoting specific rights such as the fight for women's and children's rights, and the struggles against capital punishment, torture and cruel, **inhuman**, humiliating treatment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1485484)

## More sentences

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

- Je vous signale également que des Russes, et notamment des soldats de l'armée russe, sont eux aussi soumis à des traitements **dégradants** dans cette région.
  I would also mention that Russian people too, including soldiers of the Russian army, are treated dishonourably there.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 869887)

- Selon moi, la population africaine devrait connaître les desseins funestes et **dégradants** de l'UE.
  I think African people should know about the EU's shabby and dishonourable plans.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1028977)

- Convention contre la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou **dégradants**, art. 20, 21 et 22 (1991)
  arts. 20, 21 and 22 (1991) OP-ICESCR
  ([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 27516270)

## Grammar

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