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# force — French to English

How French *force* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: force (151 648), forces (183 303). By style: everyday 303 · literary 92 · biblical 247 · parliamentary 14 081 · legal and administrative 12 501 · UN documents 307 727.

## force

Used about 259 931 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 98 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 7 187 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 985 · UN documents ≈ 243 617). Forms: force, forces. Meaning: [force in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/force/).

- Ils l'ont pris de **force**.
  They took it by **force**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1315318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1315318) [\#7093812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7093812))

- Céderons-nous à la **force**?
  Shall we yield to **force**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2229)

- Après cela, Sanchérib, roi d’Assyrie, envoya ses serviteurs à Jérusalem, pendant qu’il était devant Lakis avec toutes ses **forces**; il les envoya vers Ézéchias, roi de Juda, et vers tous ceux de Juda qui étaient à Jérusalem, pour leur dire:
  After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was attacking Lachish, and all his **forces** were with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 32:9)

- Une task-**force** a donc été créée au sein de la Commission.
  The Commission has therefore set up a task **force**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 395459)

- Task **force** «Partenariat oriental»
  Task **Force** on the Eastern Partnership
  ([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 2007645)

## strength

Used about 7 896 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 26 · biblical ≈ 110 · parliamentary ≈ 880 · legal and administrative ≈ 391 · UN documents ≈ 6 411). Meaning: [strength in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strength/).

- La **force** dans l'unité.
  In unity is **strength**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6041469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6041469) [\#492395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/492395))

- —Réparer nos **forces** en mangeant.»
  "Recruit our **strength** by eating."
  ([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 3774)

- Elle ceint de **force** ses reins, Et elle affermit ses bras.
  She arms her waist with **strength**, and makes her arms strong.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 31:17)

- Avons-nous la **force** et la détermination d'aboutir ou sommes-nous désorientés ?
  Do we have the **strength** and determination to complete the final lap, or shall we miss the entrance to the stadium because we have lost our bearings?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 124848)

- **force** de 19 kN ou plus,
  a **strength** of 19 kN or more,
  ([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 4973818)

## armed

Used about 3 352 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 147 · UN documents ≈ 3 205). Meaning: [armed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/armed/).

- (SV) Monsieur le Président, la carte de l'Europe a été modifiée par des **forces** armées et par la guerre.
  (SV) Mr President, the map of Europe has changed through **armed** attack and war.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1152118)

- L &apos; un des hommes a tiré deux coups de semonce et s &apos; est emparé de **force** de 1 fusil, de 10 chargeurs et de 300 balles se trouvant dans le véhicule.
  One of the **armed** men fired two warning shots and forcibly took 1 rifle, 10 magazines and 300 rounds of ammunition from the United Nations vehicle.
  ([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 28519507)

## More sentences

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

- La **force** de l'équipe est celle de son membre le plus faible.
  The team is only as strong as its weakest member.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4235720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4235720) [\#4236578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4236578))

- Personne ne te **force** à rester.
  Nobody's forcing you to stay.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LeFaune and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4464799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4464799) [\#4465427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4465427))

- Personne ne vous **force** la main.
  Nobody's forcing you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3728995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3728995) [\#7093783](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7093783))

## Grammar

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