Sentence examples of "frapper" in French with translation "strike"

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J'ai failli ne pas pouvoir me retenir de le frapper. I barely restrained the impulse to strike him.
L'éclair frappa la tour. Lightning struck the tower.
La foudre frappa la tour. Lightning struck the tower.
Les typhons frappent le Japon chaque année. Typhoons strike Japan every year.
Nul ne sait, ce qui le frappera demain. No one knows what will strike one tomorrow.
Sa maison a été frappée par la foudre. His house was struck by lightning.
Il m'a frappé au visage avec son poing. He struck me in the face with his fist.
Hier, la maison a été frappée par la foudre. The house was struck by lightning yesterday.
Le charme frappe la vue, le mérite conquiert l'âme. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Dieu frappe de la main gauche, et caresse de la droite God strikes with the left hand, and strokes with the right
Il eut des mots avec son ami et le frappa alors. He had words with his friend and then struck him.
Le charme frappe la vue, mais le mérite triomphe de l'âme. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Je suis à l'hôpital. J'ai été frappé par la foudre. I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.
Je fus tout à coup frappé de ce que la fille essayait de cacher quelque chose. It struck me that the girl was trying to hide something.
L’iaidō est une forme d'escrime qui frappe un attaquant d'un seul coup d'épée, rapidement dégainée de son fourreau, que l'on soit assis ou en déambulation. Iaido, it is a form of swordsmanship that strikes down an attacking opponent with one blow of the sword quickly drawn out of its sheath, whether one is sitting or walking.
Le parallèle avec l'anglais est encore plus frappant quand nous prenons conscience que le latin a continué à être usité durant encore plusieurs centaines d'années en tant que la première "langue internationale" au monde. The parallel with English becomes even more striking when we realize that Latin continued to be used for many hundreds of years more as the world's first "international language."
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