The English word dissent in French

It seems the English noun and verb dissent has different words in French.

I would like to know from our native French speakers about the way they translate the following sentences.

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People dissent from government stance on refugees.

Political dissent is not tolerated in many third world countries.

Voices of dissent is/are accepted in democratic governments.

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Permalink Reply by Vedas on November 4, 2015 at 9:48pm

Hello,

it could be translated as follows

People dissent from government stance refugees

La population conteste/ s'écarte de/ la position du gouvernement en ce qui concerne les réfugiés

Political dissent is not tolerated in many third world countries.

On ne tolère pas la différence d'opinion/ la contestation/ dans de nombreux pays du tiers monde

Voices of dissent is/are accepted in democratic governments

On accepte la contestation/ le désacord/ les divergences d'opinion/ dans les régimes démocratiques.

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on November 5, 2015 at 9:52am

Thanks Vedas

It was an excellent reply.

So the English word dissent could be interpreted in different ways in French.

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Permalink Reply by Sandra on November 12, 2015 at 9:18am

Dissent had the same root than its literal translation "dissidance/dissidant" in french.

The problem is that "dissidance" is a very rarely used noun and its adjective form "dissidant" also, and the verb form doesn't exit . That's why you have to go around when you translate as Vedas did, it's clearer and sound much better than :