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# surmonter — French to English

How French *surmonter* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: surmontaient (1), surmontait (9), surmonte (113), surmontent (186), surmonter (25 261), surmontez (8), surmontons (18), surmonté (735), surmontée (276), surmontées (751), surmontés (808). By style: everyday 60 · literary 7 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 2 405 · legal and administrative 510 · UN documents 25 181.

## overcome

Used about 16 687 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 515 · legal and administrative ≈ 242 · UN documents ≈ 14 896). Meaning: [overcome in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/overcome/).

- Ils peuvent **surmonter** leur peur.
  They can **overcome** their fear.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and dipdowel · checked, community translation · [\#2581635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2581635) [\#805034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805034))

- Ne te laisse pas vaincre par le mal, mais **surmonte** le mal par le bien.
  Don’t be **overcome** by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 12:21)

- Le problème a été **surmonté**.
  The problem has been **overcome**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 12235)

- Comment ces difficultés ont-elles été **surmontées**?
  How were those difficulties **overcome**?
  ([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 1120921)

- II. DE SERIEUX OBSTACLES A **SURMONTER**
  II. SERIOUS OBSTACLES TO BE **OVERCOME**
  ([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 4002135)

## crisis

Used about 892 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 100 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 · UN documents ≈ 780). Meaning: [crisis in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/crisis/).

- Comment pouvons-nous **surmonter** cette crise ?
  How can we get past this **crisis**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4943337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4943337) [\#7793962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7793962))

- Il admet que l'UE n'est pas parvenu à **surmonter** une crise de confiance.
  He allows that the EU has not succeeded in overcoming a **crisis** of confidence.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 955646)

- Selon les informations fournies, en 2007, le marché de la volaille s’est normalisé après avoir **surmonté** les fortes turbulences occasionnées, en 2006, par la crise de la grippe aviaire.
  According to the information provided, the poultry market normalised in 2007 after a period of serious turbulence caused by the bird flu **crisis** in 2006.
  ([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 1976479)

- Beaucoup de pays avaient rapidement **surmonté** les effets initiaux de la crise, mais une grande vulnérabilité persistait.
  Many countries had recovered quickly from the initial effects of the **crisis**, but great vulnerability remained.
  ([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 25145157)

- Le second sommet ASEM, qui s'est tenu à Londres en 1998 a **surmonté** la crise avec succès.
  The second ASEM meeting, which took place in London in 1998, successfully overcame the **crisis**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 93405)

## difficulties

Used about 804 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 67 · legal and administrative ≈ 25 · UN documents ≈ 709).

- Il m'a aidé à **surmonter** les difficultés.
  He helped me to get over the **difficulties**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CS · checked, community translation · [\#297249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297249) [\#132172](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132172))

- Nous pourrons alors **surmonter** une grande partie des difficultés.
  Then we shall be able to remove many of the **difficulties**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1878990)

- Dans cette situation, plusieurs États membres ont demandé à la Commission de prendre des mesures urgentes pour **surmonter** ces difficultés.
  Several Member States have asked the Commission to take urgent measures to combat these **difficulties**.
  ([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 482143)

- Deux défis majeurs doivent donc être **surmontés** pour l &apos; efficacité du combat contre ces trois phobies.
  Two major **difficulties** must be surmounted if efforts to combat these three phobias are to prove effective.
  ([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 12226382)

- Tom a **surmonté** tous les obstacles et toutes les difficultés.
  Tom overcame all obstacles and **difficulties**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6780721](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6780721) [\#3221276](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3221276))

## obstacles

Used about 650 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 638).

- Les pionniers ont **surmonté** une série d'obstacles.
  The pioneers overcame a set of **obstacles**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2480959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2480959) [\#458168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/458168))

- Je suis sûr que nous pourrons **surmonter** ces obstacles à l'avenir.
  I am sure we can get over those **obstacles** in future.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1825340)

- Les obstacles au progrès doivent être **surmontés**.
  **Obstacles** limiting progress must be addressed.
  ([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 18339284)

- Les pionniers ont **surmonté** un ensemble d'obstacles.
  The pioneers overcame a set of **obstacles**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2480959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2480959) [\#7804149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7804149))

- **Surmonter** les obstacles politiques à la poursuite des pirates présumés
  Overcoming the political **obstacles** to the prosecution of suspected pirates
  ([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 25049552)

## More sentences

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

- J'arriverai à **surmonter** cela d'une manière ou d'une autre.
  I'll get over it one way or another.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gib and Johannes\_S · checked, community translation · [\#9788164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9788164) [\#9788433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9788433))

- Elle ne put **surmonter** la mort de son mari.
  She could not get over her husband's death.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and kerbear407 · checked, community translation · [\#1844229](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1844229) [\#3432581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3432581))

- Je ne pense pas qu'on puisse jamais **surmonter** la mort d'un enfant.
  I don't suppose you ever really get over the death of a child.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Goofy and CK · checked, community translation · [\#270043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270043) [\#480412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/480412))

## 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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