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# plaintes — French to English

How French *plaintes* 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: plaintes (53 845). By style: everyday 38 · literary 2 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 1 559 · legal and administrative 1 223 · UN documents 51 017.

## complaints

Used about 42 879 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 332 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 121 · UN documents ≈ 40 388). Forms: complaint, complaints.

- Je n'ai pas de **plaintes**.
  I've got no **complaints**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2359666](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2359666) [\#7839990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7839990))

- --Le bureau est fermé, dit Gavroche, je ne reçois plus de **plaintes**.
  “The office is closed,” said Gavroche, “I do not receive any more **complaints**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20540)

- Pour qui les ah? Pour qui les hélas? Pour qui les disputes? Pour qui les **plaintes**? Pour qui les blessures sans raison? Pour qui les yeux rouges?
  Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has **complaints**? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 23:29)

- Ceci contribuera à réduire le nombre des **plaintes** irrecevables.
  This will help to reduce the number of inadmissible **complaints**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1157785)

- Importante, relative, pas de **plaintes**
  Severe, some, no **complaints**
  ([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 4213274)

## received

Used about 1 088 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 25 · UN documents ≈ 1 063).

- Vu le grand nombre de **plaintes** reçues, la Commission a provisoirement conclu qu’un examen individuel compliquerait indûment sa tâche et l’empêcherait d’achever son enquête en temps utile.
  Given the high number of the claims **received**, the Commission has provisionally concluded that individual examinations would be unduly burdensome and would prevent completion of the investigation in good time.
  ([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 2935911)

- 35. M. de Gouttes voudrait savoir quelles mesures ont été prises pour renforcer le mandat du Médiateur et combien de **plaintes** pour discrimination raciale lui ont été adressées.
  He asked what measures had been taken to strengthen the mandate of the Ombudsman. How many cases of racial discrimination had been **received** by the Ombudsman?
  ([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 27764129)

## More sentences

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

- Je suis excédé par vos **plaintes** incessantes.
  I'm fed up with your constant complaining.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#17008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17008) [\#549369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/549369))

- Beaucoup de personnes s’en sont **plaintes**.
  Many people have complained about that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6244415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6244415) [\#12448238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12448238))

- Puis j’assiégerai Ariel; Il y aura des **plaintes** et des gémissements; Et la ville sera pour moi comme un Ariel.
  then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 29:2)

## Grammar

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