attempt — English to French

How English attempt is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: attempt in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: attempt (29 812), attempts (20 876). By style: everyday 74 · literary 15 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 6 629 · legal and administrative 925 · UN documents 43 044.

tentative

Used about 21 687 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · parliamentary ≈ 3 245 · legal and administrative ≈ 458 · UN documents ≈ 17 935). Forms: tentative, tentatives.

• All our attempts failed.

  Toutes nos tentatives ont échoué.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #262592 #4551267

• All previous attempts have been fruitless.

  Toutes les tentatives précédentes ont été vaines.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 905296

• Date of attempt of service:

  Date de la tentative de signification ou de notification:

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5299857

• “(d) Attempt to commit genocide;

  d) La tentative de génocide;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 1471464

• She was successful in the attempt.

  Elle a réussi sa tentative.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #311255 #4766148

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• Don't attempt to do this by yourself.

  N'essayez pas de le faire tout seul.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4664059 #11181696

• Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

  Nos doutes sont des traîtres. Ils nous privent de ce que nous pourrions souvent gagner de bon, parce que nous avons peur d'essayer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #6806209 #6806212

• I am going to attempt to sublet my apartment.

  Je vais tenter de sous-louer mon appartement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by letsgolanguages and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11535870 #13209869

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