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# malgré — French to English

How French *malgré* 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: malgré (69 155). By style: everyday 138 · literary 18 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 8 409 · legal and administrative 2 773 · UN documents 57 783.

## despite

Used about 50 555 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 256 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 906 · UN documents ≈ 43 337). Meaning: [despite in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/despite/).

- Vous êtes venus **malgré** mon interdiction.
  You came **despite** my ban.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and lohnesinpr · checked, community translation · [\#4097981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4097981) [\#5352342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5352342))

- 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)

- **Malgré** ces appels, les menaces américaines se concrétisent.
  **Despite** our appeals the Americans have carried out their threats.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1965563)

- Ventes et production en baisse **malgré** des commandes à la hausse
  Decreasing sales and production **despite** increasing orders
  ([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 3672665)

- Ces réformes devaient se poursuivre **malgré** l &apos; incertitude du climat économique international.
  Those reforms had to be continued **despite** the uncertain international economic environment.
  ([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 19806156)

## spite

Used about 5 682 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 701 · legal and administrative ≈ 116 · UN documents ≈ 4 815). Meaning: [spite in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/spite/).

- Je riais **malgré** moi.
  I laughed in **spite** of myself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CM · checked, community translation · [\#246230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246230) [\#329809](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/329809))

- —Mais voilà une ingénieuse hypothèse! m'écriai-je un peu **malgré** moi.
  "Upon my word, this is a very clever hypothesis," I exclaimed, in **spite** rather of myself.
  ([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 527)

- Si, **malgré** cela, vous ne m’écoutez point et si vous me résistez,
  “‘If you in **spite** of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 26:27)

- **Malgré** cette réserve, nous avons voté pour la résolution.
  In **spite** of this, however, we have decided to vote in favour of the resolution.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977145)

- Cette comparaison a confirmé que la marge de dumping déterminée pour les exportations vers l'Union était raisonnable **malgré** les très faibles volumes des ventes.
  This further confirmed that the dumping margin determined for exports to the Union was reasonable in **spite** of the very low volumes of sales.
  ([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 4939949)

## More sentences

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

- **Malgré** toutes mes objections, elle a quitté la maison.
  Even after all of my objections, she left home.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#388573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/388573) [\#393251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/393251))

- Ils vinrent **malgré** la pluie.
  They came even though it was raining.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Akenaseryan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3733837](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3733837) [\#5689173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5689173))

- **Malgré** son opulence, il est malheureux.
  For all his wealth, he is unhappy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#18521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18521) [\#431506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/431506))

## Grammar

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