Sentence examples of "besoins" in French

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Translations: all615 need594 want12 necessity2 urge1 other translations6
À ton âge, tu devrais subvenir à tes besoins. At your age you ought to support yourself.
Il a travaillé dur pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille. He worked hard to provide for his family.
Tu es maintenant assez vieux pour subvenir à tes propres besoins. You are now old enough to support yourself.
Il faut beaucoup d'électricité pour satisfaire les besoins énergétiques d'un pays. It takes a lot of electricity to power a country.
On ne doit pas s'arrêter sur la bande d'arrêt d'urgence pour faire ses besoins. You must not stop on the hard shoulder to go to the toilet.
Imagine, pour les besoins de la discussion, une tribu où l'inceste entre une mère et son fils serait toléré. Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced.
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