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# touchés — French to English

How French *touchés* 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: touchés (37 858). By style: everyday 7 · parliamentary 1 491 · legal and administrative 704 · UN documents 35 656.

## affected

Used about 26 281 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 645 · UN documents ≈ 24 513).

- L'histoire nous a beaucoup **touchés**.
  The story **affected** us deeply.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#43304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43304) [\#4922628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4922628))

- Des millions de gens sont **touchés**.
  Many millions of people are **affected**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 354445)

- Nombre d'hectares (**touchés**)
  Number of hectares (**affected**)
  ([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 4180118)

- Secteurs les plus **touchés** dans les pays en développement
  Sectors most **affected** in developing countries
  ([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 21209845)

- La plupart des gens ne seront pas **touchés**.
  Most people won't be **affected**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4529696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4529696) [\#11234628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11234628))

## countries

Used about 2 322 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 93 · UN documents ≈ 2 229).

- D’autres pays d’Afrique subsaharienne et d’ailleurs sont **touchés** de la même façon.
  Other **countries** in sub-Saharan Africa and indeed elsewhere in the world are similarly afflicted.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 715587)

- désertification dans les pays gravement **touchés** par
  Those **Countries** Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
  ([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 5123266)

- Car l'ouragan Mitch a provoqué des dégâts qu'aucun des pays **touchés** - et d'ailleurs, peu de pays, sans doute - ne pourra réparer par ses propres moyens.
  The fact is that the hurricane caused damage that none of the **countries** concerned, and probably very few countries anyway, could repair by their own efforts alone.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1917966)

- La Convention n &apos; aborde ni la responsabilité des pays qui ont posé ces mines, ni la question des compensations qu &apos; il conviendrait de verser aux pays **touchés**.
  The Convention dealt with neither the responsibilities of the **countries** that planted those mines, nor the issue of compensation for the implantation countries.
  ([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 16598277)

- Deuxièmement, la communauté internationale souffre d'un manque de coordination de ses efforts au niveau mondial et plus particulièrement dans les pays **touchés**.
  Secondly, the international community needs to improve the coordination of its efforts both at the global level and particularly within the afflicted **countries**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 108336)

## particularly

Used about 2 260 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 31 · UN documents ≈ 2 229). Meaning: [particularly in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/particularly/).

- L'agriculture, la politique de cohésion et les fonds de préadhésion sont des domaines particulièrement **touchés** par les irrégularités et la fraude.
  Agriculture, cohesion policy and pre-accession funds are areas where rates of irregularity and fraud are **particularly** pronounced.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1538049)

- Application de la Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification dans les pays gravement **touchés** par la sécheresse
  Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, **Particularly** in Africa
  ([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 21755042)

- e) Application de la Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification dans les pays gravement **touchés** par la sécheresse et/ou la désertification, en particulier en Afrique
  (e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, **Particularly** in Africa
  ([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 28425646)

- e) Application de la Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification dans les pays gravement **touchés** par la sécheresse et/ou la désertification, en particulier en Afrique.
  (e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, **particularly** in Africa.
  ([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 5590047)

## hit

Used about 1 656 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 155 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 · UN documents ≈ 1 486). Meaning: [hit in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hit/).

- - Plusieurs États membres de l’Union européenne ont récemment été **touchés** par de graves inondations.
  Several European Union Member States have recently been **hit** by severe flooding.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795716)

- L'environnement naturel est soumis à une pression croissante et les pays en développement sont particulièrement **touchés** par les effets du changement climatique.
  The natural environment is under increasing pressure and the developing countries are **hit** particularly hard by the effects of climate change.
  ([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 3145394)

- i) Le nombre d &apos; objectifs **touchés** est alors plus important;
  The number of targets **hit** by mines increases;
  ([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 15079215)

- Ce sont apparemment surtout les pays du Sud de l'Europe qui seront les plus durement **touchés** par le changement climatique.
  It will apparently be the countries of Southern Europe, above all, that are hardest **hit** by climate change.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1378273)

- Trois travailleurs ont été **touchés**, un à la jambe et à l &apos; épaule, un autre à la tête et le dernier à la jambe.
  Three workers were **hit** by bullets, one to the leg and shoulder, one to the head and another to the leg.
  ([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 27399669)

## More sentences

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

- Pleurent-ils parce qu'ils sont **touchés** ou tristes ?
  Are they crying because they are touched or sad?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11326050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11326050) [\#11326060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11326060))

- Leur amitié nous a profondément **touchés**.
  Their friendship moved us deeply.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and CM · checked, community translation · [\#317669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/317669) [\#426151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/426151))

- Nous sommes **touchés**.
  We're touched.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2203464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2203464) [\#4777332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4777332))

## 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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