The terms provided appear to be French legal and linguistic items. Here’s a concise, context-focused breakdown to help you understand each:
- perpétuité
- Core meaning: perpetuality or life imprisonment depending on context. In everyday French, it most commonly translates as “perpetuity” in finance or “for life” in legal/criminal contexts. When used in a legal sense in France, it can refer to a life sentence, with specific rules governing its application.
- incompressible
- Meaning in French jurisprudence: a type of life sentence where the prison term cannot be reduced or converted through standard sentence-modification mechanisms for a very long period, often described as the strict or “real” life imprisonment. In France, this is known as “perpétuité incompressible” or “perpétuité réelle.” The concept typically includes a mandatory, extended period of absence of sentence reductions, sometimes with a possibility of future release evaluation after a long minimum period.
- combien
- de
- temps
If you’re looking to translate or understand these as a sequence, they form a French phrase asking: “how much time” or “how long.” In a typical translation:
- “combien de temps” = “how long” or “how much time.”
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