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# obstacles — French to English

How French *obstacles* 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: obstacles (68 414). By style: everyday 16 · literary 2 · parliamentary 3 674 · legal and administrative 2 592 · UN documents 62 130.

## obstacles

Used about 30 802 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 526 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 080 · UN documents ≈ 27 182).

- Il fait face à de nombreux **obstacles**.
  He faces many **obstacles**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#3455404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3455404) [\#834737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/834737))

- Les **obstacles**, il ne se les dissimulait pas.
  He did not conceal from himself the fact that **obstacles** existed.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28898)

- Je voudrais énumérer certains de ces **obstacles**.
  I would like to list some of those **obstacles**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1627513)

- Les **obstacles** présumés au commerce étaient les suivants:
  The alleged **obstacles** to trade were the following:
  ([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 1401404)

- **Obstacles** aux livraisons surveillées
  **Obstacles** to controlled delivery
  ([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 17438682)

## barriers

Used about 21 329 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 995 · legal and administrative ≈ 918 · UN documents ≈ 19 416).

- Surmonter les principaux **obstacles** est un moyen d’y parvenir.
  One way of doing this is to tackle the main **barriers**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 514018)

- **Obstacles** à l’utilisation des TIC et de l’internet
  **Barriers** to the use of ICT and the Internet
  ([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 2147235)

- C. **Obstacles** à l &apos; accès à la justice 24 − 32 11
  C. **Barriers** to access to justice 24 - 32 10
  ([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 18516213)

- Nous devons donc éviter de créer des **obstacles** au sein des établissements financiers.
  This is why we must avoid introducing **barriers** in financial institutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1556325)

- Un bon nombre des ces **obstacles** sont encore d'actualité.
  Many of those **barriers** are still relevant.
  ([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 2557066)

## removing

Used about 54 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 54).

- Réduction ou suppression des **obstacles** à la résolvabilité
  Addressing or **removing** impediments to resolvability
  ([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 5355484)

## More sentences

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

- Le courage physique et l'amour du combat, par exemple, ne sont pas d'une grande aide - et peuvent même constituer des **obstacles** - à un homme civilisé.
  Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3719540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3719540) [\#3745279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3745279))

- Les **obstacles** près des portes peuvent gêner les gens en cas d'urgence.
  Obstructions near doors can impede people in an emergency.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and zumley · checked, community translation · [\#5667892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5667892) [\#8657204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657204))

- Quoi que vous désiriez dans la vie, les objectifs, l'ambition et les activités des autres constituent des **obstacles** essentiels le long de votre chemin.
  No matter what you desire of life, other people's aims, ambitions and activities constitute vital obstructions along your pathway.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and weihaiping · checked, community translation · [\#1482482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1482482) [\#1482888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1482888))

## Grammar

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