Voler

[Crack1]

ll a volé de l'argent d'une banque. [ He has stolen money from a bank.]

Il a volé une banque. [ He robbed a bank.]

Il est criminel. [ He is a criminal.]
Are my French sentences fine?
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Le temps voler [ Time flies.]
Voler de l'argent à qqn. To steal money from someone

I know voler means to fly also.

[Neil Coffey]

Usually "from" is translated by à (as in your last example in fact) in the sense of "taking away from", rather than de.

I would have said either dévaliser or cambrioler for your second sentence (and reserved voler for referring to robbing a person or thing), but I see examples on the Internet of e.g. voler une banque (which to me gives me an image of somebody physically stealing the building), so maybe this usage is common/acceptable enough after all-- don't know what others think...?

For "time flies", the usual expression is le temps s'envole.

[Frank]

Hi Neil,

Voler une banque could give the image of a robery, however the most intuitive interpretation would be a bank fraud.

For "time flies", the usual expression is le temps s'envole.

or Le temps file, which seems far more common according to Google.

[Neil Coffey]

Hi Frank,

Thanks, yes now you say it, the fraud interpretation is probably why there are so many hits on Google!

Interesting about le temps file as well-- I hadn't realised this was more common. The power of Google...! :-)