Any French speakers in the lounge?

[dan sh]

WTF! Not again! might work.

"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

[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.

[Millerpr]

The word you are looking for is "sauter" = to jump The circuit breaker tripped = "le déjoncteur a sauté"

[BarrRobot]

Try here[^] particularly section 441.

[FDemers]

A circuit breaker is a coupe-circuit (masculine: (the) le coupe-circuit, (a) un coupe-circuit, (my) mon coupe-circuit... In context, to trip is déclencher (verb) déclenchement (noun) My circuit breaker is tripping off, mon coupe-circuit se déclenche. In French, you cannot abbreviate "coupe" the way you could "breaker" in English. Hope this helps

[Mikael Andres]

But what else than overvoltage or overintensity could trigger a circuit breaker to trip off? I think "disjoncter" is the perfect word. At least it is the one I would use, and any french people would understand it perfectly.

[ScubaJohn]

The usual verb in French, in this case, is 'sauter'. For example 'les plombs ont sauté' (the fuses tripped/blew)

[Menuki]

Mikael Andres wrote:

I think "disjoncter" is the perfect word. At least it is the one I would use, and any french people would understand it perfectly.

In french, we would say :

Le disjoncteur s'est déclenché.

or

Le circuit a disjoncté.

We can hear :

Le disjoncteur a disjoncté.

too but in french, we don't like to repeat the same sound twice. It's unpleasant to the ear... but it is perfectly syntaxically correct.

[Pierre Luc Foley]

Déclancher is the good technical word for it. Altough people will use Ouvrir (Open) and Fermer (Close) in normal conversation for circuit breakers as they would do for a light switch. Hth

[Munchies_Matt]

Ouais, c'est vrai. :)