Any French speakers in the lounge?

[H Brydon]

Coder For Hire wrote:

"My circuit breaker is tripping off" That means it exceeded its voltage max and failed.

Actually circuit breakers don't look at voltage - they are designed to trip with an excess of current.

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[Jacques Sineriz]

I would use colloquially:

Mon disjoncteur a sauté! Elephant!

or a little more technically:

Mon disjoncteur s'est déclenché...

[Munchies_Matt]

Disconnect is the English term you need to think of, in French, disjonct. Quick tip, think of the more polished, professional sounding word in English when translating into French. So donate vs give, aid vs help. The translation will be closer.

[Munchies_Matt]

Dejoncteur is the trip switch, so....

[Ahmed Tahar]

In French : trip = voyage In the context of your sentence : is tripping off = saute (Mon disjoncteur saute…)

[fredhimself]

we say in french 'disjoncteur' means electrical switch or the state you are when you brake neural circuit in your brain or getting crazy 'je disjoncte'

[Menuki]

I aggree. I think "déclencher" is the good word for a circuit breaker. "Disjoncter" could do the work too but it is related too overvoltage or over-intensity.

[fredhimself]

Nowadays more and more french persons are using trip for trip ... just because the equivalent word is missing in french. Especialy if you are trying to translate something like the Jack's Kerouac road trip or 'las vegas parano' trip with jim carrey. trip sounds like going in a way of adventure and 'sortie' is more quiet... You may not be able to translate that word into a single french one, you need several french words to mean 'trip' like : "partir à l'aventure". That way you more close to J kerouac or jim Carrey trip, but in the quiet case "sortie" is fine. ;)

[dan sh]

WTF! Not again! might work.

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[jbceccaldi]

Sauter You are not translating "(to) trip" but "(to) trip off" Verbs made of two separate words are not a feature of the French language. Goggle does not handle this very well. English: my circuit breaker has tripped off. French: mon coupe circuit a sauté. (jumped !) English: my circuit breaker is tripping off. French: mon coupe circuit saute for ganja related tripping we use "trip" in French

[Member 11498268]

Disconnected is "debranche" (that e at the end is e acute)

[Member 11498268]

To trip, as in fall over, is trebucher (like the catapult), but I would use debrancher, which is to disconnect or unplug.

[Member 8530377]

Mon disjoncteur est déclencher

My circuit breaker is tripping

déclencher has the meaning of "trip" or "trigger"

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[steelcrusher]

In Québec we would say something like: "Le breaker a sauté" also "Le disjoncteur a sauté" is good. Hope it helps.

[AdamPL]

Voyage is a good translation for trip. Voyager would be the verb. But it's not the right context. Sauter as previously mention sound like a nice fit. (heard it a lot) Surcharger would also fit, though I heard it less often when talking about breaker.

[AdamPL]

I don't hear those in Canada. Except for Road trip.

[AdamPL]

This!

[Gilles Plante]

Hi there from the Province of Québec. Trip translates to voyage. Now for your last sentence: Mon disjoncteur se déclenche... il ne va pas en croisière aux Caraïbes. Bonne journée :)

Gilles Plante

[User 9514247]

So weird: In google search, I write "translate My circuit breaker is tripping off in french" And I get: "Mon disjoncteur se déclenche" Which for me, being french, looks perfect. In fact, I think that "to trip off" could be translated in 'Disjoncter'. In French, you should not say "Mon disjoncteur disjoncte", this is not beautiful... So, google's right. Hoping that my 2 cents helps... Christian

[KC CahabaGBA]

How about using the word Trigger which in French is Gâchette. To trip a switch would be to also trigger it.