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# forces — French to English

How French *forces* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: forces (183 303). By style: everyday 102 · literary 13 · biblical 24 · parliamentary 6 100 · legal and administrative 5 509 · UN documents 171 555.

## forces

Used about 154 908 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 194 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 132 · UN documents ≈ 146 537).

- Des **forces** armées ont assiégé la ville.
  Armed **forces** besieged the city.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2601257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2601257) [\#8750849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8750849))

- Du bon emploi des **forces** résulte la puissance publique.
  From the proper employment of **forces** results public power.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18280)

- 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)

- Ce sont les **forces** de l'OTAN qui ont protégé le reste de l'Europe de ce cauchemar.
  It was NATO **forces** that protected the rest of Europe from this nightmare.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1358256)

- Essai de fatigue avec les **forces** de pédalage
  Fatigue test with pedalling **forces**
  ([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 4076109)

## strength

Used about 7 302 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 127 · UN documents ≈ 7 148). Meaning: [strength in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strength/).

- Elle cria de toutes ses **forces**.
  She shouted with all her **strength**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13094430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13094430) [\#13094602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13094602))

- —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)

- La faim consume ses **forces**, La misère est à ses côtés.
  His **strength** will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 18:12)

- Ces **forces** sont encore grandes au Zimbabwe, encore non violentes et orientées vers la paix et des solutions démocratiques.
  That **strength** is still great in Zimbabwe, still non-violent and still oriented towards peace and democratic solutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 637120)

- Les personnes détenues dans ces centres sont nourries gratuitement et suffisamment pour pouvoir demeurer en bonne santé et garder leurs **forces**.
  Persons detained in these centres receive, free of charge, food of nutritional value adequate for health and **strength**.
  ([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 22015153)

## armed

Used about 127 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 127). 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)

## security

Used about 127 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 127). Meaning: [security in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/security/).

- Nous leur avons immédiatement demandé de quitter les lieux, et avons appelé à cet effet les **forces** de sécurité.
  We challenged them and asked them to leave; we got the **security** people to ask them to leave.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1647756)

## More sentences

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

- Si nous unissons nos **forces**, nous atteindrons notre but.
  If we combine our efforts, we'll achieve our goal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FaridTrad and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11733013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11733013) [\#10270717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10270717))

- Il est au bout de ses **forces**.
  He's on his last legs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1401237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1401237) [\#1401801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1401801))

- Il essaya de toutes ses **forces** d'ouvrir la porte en la poussant.
  He tried with all his might to push the door open.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#304765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/304765) [\#1180136](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1180136))

## Grammar

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