Sentence examples of "mauvaise" in French with translation "wrong"

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Vous avez la mauvaise personne. You’ve got the wrong person.
Tu as la mauvaise personne. You’ve got the wrong person.
Tu as serré la mauvaise personne. You’ve got the wrong person.
Tu vas dans la mauvaise direction. You're going the wrong way.
Suis-je sur la mauvaise route ? Am I on the wrong road?
Vous avez serré la mauvaise personne. You’ve got the wrong person.
La réponse à cette question est mauvaise. The answer to this question is wrong.
Le pays est sur la mauvaise pente. The country is headed on the wrong track.
Je suis descendu du train à la mauvaise gare. I got off at the wrong station.
La conséquence d'une mauvaise traduction peut parfois être catastrophique. The consequence of a wrong translation can sometimes be catastrophic.
J'ai peur que nous avancions dans la mauvaise direction. I am afraid we are advancing in the wrong direction.
On pense que la police a arrêté la mauvaise femme. The police are believed to have arrested the wrong woman.
Nous mangeons trop de mauvaise et pas assez de bonne nourriture. We eat too much of the wrong food and not enough of the right food.
La logique est une méthode systématique pour arriver à la mauvaise conclusion en toute confiance. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
J'ai pénétré dans le musée par la mauvaise porte. J'aurais dû faire plus attention. I entered the museum through the wrong gate. I should have been more careful.
Si je ne m'abuse, je pense que nous avons pris une mauvaise route là-bas. If I'm not mistaken, I think we took a wrong turn back there.
Ses vains efforts pour la séduire montrèrent qu'il sonnait à la mauvaise adresse ; elle était la mère de deux bambins. His vain efforts to seduce her showed he was barking up the wrong tree; she was a mother of two tots.
Tom pris le mauvais train. Tom took the wrong train.
C'était un mauvais numéro. It was a wrong number.
Tom pris le mauvais bus. Tom took the wrong bus.
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