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# perte — French to English

How French *perte* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: perte (43 537), pertes (55 010). By style: everyday 181 · literary 7 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 4 301 · legal and administrative 20 992 · UN documents 73 038.

## loss

Used about 79 079 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 97 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 002 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 149 · UN documents ≈ 57 822). Forms: loss, losses. Meaning: [loss in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/loss/).

- Il vend à **perte**.
  He's selling at a **loss**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#13731113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13731113) [\#13731093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13731093))

- Ceci commença la **perte** de la bataille.
  This began the **loss** of the battle.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7153)

- Mais ces choses qui étaient pour moi des gains, je les ai regardées comme une **perte**, à cause de Christ.
  However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a **loss** for Christ.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 3:7)

- Il y a **perte** de souveraineté.
  There is a **loss** of sovereignty.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1654984)

- la **perte** de revenus encourue;
  the **loss** of revenue incurred;
  ([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 1013869)

## More sentences

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

- C'est une **perte** totale de temps.
  That's an utter waste of time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3281682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3281682) [\#465058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/465058))

- L'espéranto est une **perte** de temps.
  Esperanto is a waste of time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6892246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6892246) [\#6892325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6892325))

- Ça a été une **perte** de temps.
  It was a waste of time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2169236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2169236) [\#4557552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4557552))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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