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# drogue — French to English

How French *drogue* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: drogue (42 492), drogues (70 230). By style: everyday 143 · literary 3 · parliamentary 3 886 · legal and administrative 1 173 · UN documents 107 517.

## drugs

Used about 103 497 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 141 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 684 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 112 · UN documents ≈ 98 557). Forms: drug, drugs.

- Je ne me **drogue** pas.
  I'm not on **drugs**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Maxence and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2549312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549312) [\#7686640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7686640))

- --Ça a donc besoin de beaucoup de **drogues**?
  “Does it require many **drugs**?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4090)

- M. Belder a mentionné les exportations de **drogue**.
  Mr Belder mentioned the export of **drugs**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 237293)

- le dépistage des **drogues**.
  Screening for **drugs** of abuse.
  ([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 2545180)

- Aperçu de la situation mondiale en matière de **drogues**
  Overview of the world **drug** situation
  ([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 21870384)

## trafficking

Used about 2 240 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 240).

- De toute évidence, les catastrophes et les trafiquants de **drogues** ignorent les frontières.
  Obviously, disasters and narcotics **trafficking** respect no boundaries.
  ([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 790096)

- Les routes de la **drogue** traversent le plus souvent les zones de guerre, les régions en déshérence et les États où sévit la corruption.
  **Trafficking** routes most often traversed war zones, failing regions and States where corruption was rife.
  ([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 16628276)

## illicit

Used about 1 132 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 12 · UN documents ≈ 1 120).

- Il est destiné à détecter les substances illicites telles que les explosifs et les **drogues** au moyen de la spectrométrie de mobilité à piège ionique (Ion trap mobility spectrometer — ITMS).
  It is designed for the detection of **illicit** substances, such as explosives and narcotics, by using Ion Trap Mobility Spectrometer (ITMS) technology.
  ([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 2104714)

- Le secteur illicite de la **drogue** domine l &apos; économie de l &apos; Afghanistan.
  25. The **illicit** narcotics industry dominates Afghanistan &apos; s economy.
  ([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 12919113)

## abuse

Used about 1 120 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 120). Meaning: [abuse in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/abuse/).

- 77. L &apos; image que la société donne des femmes a souvent conduit à occulter les problèmes de **drogue** auxquels elles peuvent être confrontées.
  77. Social attitudes to women have often led to women &apos; s substance **abuse**-related problems being concealed.
  ([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 2329907)

## crime

Used about 40 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 40). Meaning: [crime in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/crime/).

- La présidence irlandaise s'est surtout efforcée de lutter contre le trafic de **drogue** et la criminalité.
  The Irish presidency has made strenuous efforts in the fight against the traffic in narcotics and against **crime**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1665228)

## More sentences

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

- C'est un revendeur de **drogue** qui a un casier judiciaire.
  He's a pusher with a criminal record.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#12402231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12402231) [\#12402238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12402238))

- Je sais que beaucoup de membres du parti travailliste britannique ont fumé de la **drogue** par le passé, et certains continuent encore.
  I know that many British Labour Members have in the past smoked dope and some of them still do.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1889096)

- La baisse du prix de l’héroïne laisserait penser que l’offre de cette **drogue** est en croissance.
  The price of heroin going down would suggest that the supply of heroin is increasing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 558783)

## Grammar

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