Usage examples of "malheur" in French with translation to English

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Translations: all25 misfortune7 woe3 other translations15
Les chats noirs portent malheur. Black cats are bad luck.
À toute chose malheur est bon. Every cloud has a silver lining.
À quelque chose malheur est bon Every cloud has a silver lining
La guerre apporte toujours le malheur. War necessarily causes unhappiness.
Malheur à moi! Qu'as-tu fait? O me, what hast thou done?
Pour comble de malheur, il tomba malade. To make things even worse, he got sick.
Pour comble de malheur, il commença à pleuvoir. To make matters worse, it began to rain.
Quatre est un nombre porte malheur au Japon. Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
Certaines personnes pensent que les chats noirs portent malheur. Some people believe that black cats bring bad luck.
Le malheur des uns fait le bonheur des autres One man's meat is another man's poison
C'est dans le malheur qu'on reconnaît ses amis. Everybody loves a winner.
Son malheur changea en félicité dès lors qu'elle entendit sa voix. Her unhappiness turned to bliss when she heard his voice.
Ce qui fait le bonheur des uns fait le malheur des autres. One man's medicine is another man's poison.
Je me demande pourquoi certaines personnes pensent que les chats noirs portent malheur. I wonder why some people think black cats are unlucky.
Il croit en la superstition disant que 13 est un nombre qui porte malheur. He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.
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