Usage examples of "le contraire" in French with translation to English

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Le contraire de incommode est commode. The opposite of "inconvenient" is "convenient".
Mon point de vue est le contraire du vôtre. My point of view is contrary to yours.
Je ne peux pas dire le contraire. I can't say the opposite.
L'homme a plusieurs souhaits qu'il ne souhaite pas vraiment réaliser, et ce serait une erreur de supposer le contraire. Il veut qu'ils demeurent des souhaits ; ils n'ont de valeur que dans son imagination ; leur réalisation serait pour lui une amère déception. Il en est ainsi avec le désir de la vie éternelle. S'il était réalisé, l'Homme deviendrait complètement dégoûté de vivre éternellement, et désirerait la mort. Man has many wishes that he does not really wish to fulfil, and it would be a misunderstanding to suppose the contrary. He wants them to remain wishes, they have value only in his imagination; their fulfilment would be a bitter disappointment to him. Such a desire is the desire for eternal life. If it were fulfilled, man would become thoroughly sick of living eternally, and yearn for death.
"Rapide" c'est le contraire de "lent." "Fast" is the opposite of "slow."
Il est honnête et travailleur, mais son frère est tout le contraire. He is honest and hardworking, but his brother is quite otherwise.
Il a fait le contraire. He did the opposite.
Et pourtant, le contraire aussi est toujours vrai. And yet, the contrary is always true as well.
Je pensais que Takeo réussirait l'examen et que Kunio le raterait, mais le résultat était tout le contraire. I thought that Takeo would pass the exam and Kunio would fail, but the result was the other way around.
Quand j'étais adolescent, j'avais plein de cheveux sur la tête et aucun sur la poitrine. Maintenant, c'est juste le contraire. When I was a teenager I had lots of hair on my head and none on my chest. Now it's just the opposite.
Il a fait le contraire de ce que je lui ai demandé de faire. He did the reverse of what I asked.
Mon opinion est le contraire de la tienne. My opinion is contrary to yours.
Mourir n'est pas le contraire de vivre : on passe sa vie à vivre et on ne passe pas sa mort à mourir. Dying is not the opposite of living: we spend our life living while we don't spend our death dying.
Il fit le contraire. He did the opposite.
Ce qu'ils t'ont dit est exactement le contraire de ce qu'ils m'ont dit hier. What they said to you is exactly the opposite of what they told me yesterday.
Ceci ne signifie pas que nous devrions ignorer des sources de tension. En effet, cela suggère le contraire : nous devons confronter ces tensions. That does not mean we should ignore sources of tension. Indeed, it suggests the opposite: we must face these tensions squarely.
Dans des endroits du monde plus agréables, les gens veulent vivre plus longtemps. C'est le contraire dans les endroits moins agréables. In more pleasant places in the world, people want to live longer. It is the converse in less pleasant places.
C'est plutôt le contraire It is quite the opposite
"As-tu fini ?" "Au contraire, je n'ai même pas encore commencé." "Have you finished?" "On the contrary, I have not even begun yet."
Il a fait très froid la nuit dernière, donc nous ne sommes pas sortis mais au contraire nous nous sommes cloitrés chez nous. It was very cold last night, so we didn't go outside, but stayed indoors.
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