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# torture — French to English

How French *torture* 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: torture (145 539), tortures (7 604). By style: everyday 21 · literary 6 · parliamentary 1 543 · legal and administrative 804 · UN documents 150 769.

## torture

Used about 138 791 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 350 · legal and administrative ≈ 784 · UN documents ≈ 136 634). Meaning: [torture in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/torture/).

- Ce livre parle de la **torture**.
  This book is about **torture**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and reblica · checked, community translation · [\#4748878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4748878) [\#4676137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4676137))

- Enfant! **torture**-moi d'une main, mais caresse-moi de l'autre!
  Child! **torture** me with one hand, but caress me with the other!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5385)

- On signale également des cas de **torture**.
  There are also reports of **torture**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1780650)

- Victimes de **tortures** ou de violences
  Victims of **torture** and violence
  ([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 2850798)

- a) Article 180: Interdiction de la **torture**.
  (a) Clause 180: Prohibition of **torture**.
  ([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 13354359)

## cruel

Used about 1 571 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 571). Meaning: [cruel in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cruel/).

- la **torture** et autres peines
  and Other **Cruel**, Inhuman
  ([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 24124623)

## More sentences

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

- Ne te **torture** pas !
  Don't beat yourself up.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1860504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860504) [\#2040896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2040896))

- Mes pieds me sont une **torture**.
  My feet are killing me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2220500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2220500) [\#2222932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2222932))

- Pourquoi me **tortures**-tu avec cela ?
  Why are you tormenting me with that?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1723795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1723795) [\#1718852](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1718852))

## 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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