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# dépit — French to English

How French *dépit* 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: dépit (35 047), dépits (2). By style: everyday 41 · literary 8 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 829 · legal and administrative 1 385 · UN documents 30 785.

## despite

Used about 25 548 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 886 · legal and administrative ≈ 866 · UN documents ≈ 22 781). Meaning: [despite in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/despite/).

- Il vint, en **dépit** de la lourde chute de neige.
  He came, **despite** the heavy snowfall.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and LittleBoy · checked, community translation · [\#868554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/868554) [\#865909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/865909))

- Fix regarda attentivement le gentleman, et, quoi qu'il en eût, malgré ses préventions, en **dépit** du combat qui se livrait en lui, il baissa les yeux devant ce regard calme et franc.
  Fix gazed attentively at Mr. Fogg, and, **despite** his suspicions and of the struggle which was going on within him, he lowered his eyes before that calm and frank look.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2594)

- En **dépit** des allégations du Livre vert, ces services sont devenus plus chers.
  **Despite** what the Green Paper claims, they have become more expensive.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 548812)

- En **dépit** des annonces faites début 2016, aucune mesure concrète n'a été prise.
  **Despite** these announcements early 2016, they did not yet materialise.
  ([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 4055854)

- En **dépit** de progrès, il y a encore beaucoup à faire.
  **Despite** some progress, much more remains to be done.
  ([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 8910665)

## spite

Used about 3 159 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 589 · legal and administrative ≈ 87 · UN documents ≈ 2 463). Meaning: [spite in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/spite/).

- Il sortit en **dépit** de la tempête.
  In **spite** of the storm, he went out.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#325263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325263) [\#486616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486616))

- En **dépit** de mon irritation, je fus ému de ces paroles et de la violence que se faisait mon oncle pour tenir un pareil langage.
  In **spite** of my irritation I was moved with these words, as well as with the violence my uncle was doing to his own wishes in making so hazardous a proposal.
  ([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 1881)

- En **dépit** de tout, ce compromis présente toutefois des avantages.
  In **spite** of everything, however, this compromise has its advantages.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 891460)

- En **dépit** de la réalisation de bénéfices en 2010 et 2011, ING n’a pas distribué de dividendes à ses actionnaires.
  In **spite** of the fact that ING was profitable in 2010 and 2011, it did not pay out dividends to its shareholders.
  ([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 2825730)

- En **dépit** de ces efforts, la réconciliation, pour être significative, doit encore progresser à tous les niveaux.
  41. In **spite** of these efforts, meaningful reconciliation at any level has yet to progress.
  ([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 26721712)

## More sentences

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

- En **dépit** de ses richesses il était malheureux.
  For all his wealth, he was still unhappy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CM · checked, community translation · [\#295516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295516) [\#4269503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4269503))

- Je l'ai fait en **dépit** de ma volonté.
  I did it against my will.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#258257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/258257) [\#4233930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4233930))

- Elle l'a pris en **dépit** de tout son argent.
  She took him for all his money.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#887463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887463) [\#1351625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1351625))

## Grammar

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