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# forte — French to English

How French *forte* 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: forte (50 217), fortes (10 521). By style: everyday 261 · literary 25 · biblical 146 · parliamentary 7 619 · legal and administrative 5 273 · UN documents 47 414.

## strong

Used about 12 097 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 3 413 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 153 · UN documents ≈ 7 408). Meaning: [strong in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strong/).

- Vous étiez si **fortes**.
  You were so **strong**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2548455](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2548455) [\#5597132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5597132))

- Il est des choses plus **fortes** que l'homme le plus fort.
  There are things which are too **strong** for the strongest man.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12156)

- A main **forte** et à bras étendu, Car sa miséricorde dure à toujours!
  with a **strong** hand, and with an outstretched arm, for his loving kindness endures forever;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 136:12)

- C'est d'institutions **fortes** que nous avons besoin.
  We need **strong** institutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1335449)

- Indice de neutralisation (acidité **forte**)
  Neutralisation (**strong** acid) number
  ([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 5422979)

## high

Used about 11 170 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 238 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 044 · UN documents ≈ 9 878). Meaning: [high in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/high/).

- La **forte** humidité me fait transpirer.
  The **high** humidity is making me sweat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#10960187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10960187) [\#10960250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10960250))

- Un jour où retentiront la trompette et les cris de guerre Contre les villes **fortes** et les tours élevées.
  a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities and against the **high** battlements.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEP 1:16)

- Cette arme, **forte**, spectaculaire, fait peur.
  We are afraid of this **high**-profile and powerful weapon.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1681459)

- Essai du disque de frein sous **fortes** contraintes
  Brake disc **high** load test
  ([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 5579348)

- Essai du tambour sous **fortes** contraintes
  Brake drum **high** load test
  ([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 24694029)

## heavy

Used about 4 403 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 73 · parliamentary ≈ 159 · legal and administrative ≈ 714 · UN documents ≈ 3 457). Meaning: [heavy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/heavy/).

- Une **forte** gelée est attendue.
  A **heavy** frost is expected.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4929353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4929353) [\#7793392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7793392))

- L'Irlande a demandé de l'aide au Fonds à la suite des **fortes** précipitations qui ont causé de graves inondations en novembre 2009.
  Ireland applied for assistance from the fund following **heavy** rain leading to severe flooding in November 2009.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1436853)

- **Fortes** précipitations (pluie, grêle, neige/glace)
  **Heavy** precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
  ([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 5247868)

- L &apos; emploi de **fortes** quantités d &apos; engrais pour la culture du tabac appauvrit également les sols.
  The **heavy** fertilizing of land in order to grow tobacco leads to soil degradation.
  ([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 15353865)

- Nous avons eu de **fortes** pluies la nuit dernière.
  We had **heavy** rain last night.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Flavio and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10910261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10910261) [\#519103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/519103))

## More sentences

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

- Nous sommes en **forte** concurrence avec cette entreprise.
  We are in a fierce competition with that company.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by manuchko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#23284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23284) [\#2869816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2869816))

- Une nation n'a pas à être cruelle pour être **forte**.
  A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5287384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5287384) [\#5289068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5289068))

- Les ventes de la société augmentèrent grâce à une **forte** demande à l'exportation, mais les profits ne suivirent pas en raison d'une compétition féroce.
  Sales at the company zoomed thanks to brisk export demand, but profit did not keep up because of intense competition.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#280331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280331) [\#129619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129619))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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