became — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: became (29 155), becames (3). By style: everyday 628 · literary 69 · biblical 262 · parliamentary 1 619 · legal and administrative 1 879 · UN documents 24 701.

devenu

Used about 9 489 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 392 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 438 · legal and administrative ≈ 900 · UN documents ≈ 7 749). Forms: devenu, devenue.

• Ziri became a poet.

  Ziri est devenu poète.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #10209938 #11764102

• The Jondrette’s dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy.

  L'oeil de la Jondrette, de morne, était devenu joyeux, de joyeux il devint sombre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16573

• Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

  De plus, il est vrai qu’elle est ma sœur, fille de mon père; seulement, elle n’est pas fille de ma mère; et elle est devenue ma femme.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 20:12

• When I became a Commissioner at the end of 1999, I had to implement this new period.

  Quand je suis devenu commissaire européen, fin 1999, j’ai dû mettre en œuvre cette nouvelle période.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 510657

• FBS thereby became the owner of BFG.

  BFG est ainsi devenue une filiale de FBS.

  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 3476531

More sentences

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

• Tom became very ill.

  Tom devint très malade.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Thomz · checked, community translation · #5757412 #5761571

• I became aware of someone looking at me.

  Je me suis rendu compte qu'on m'observait.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · #254991 #352347

• Against all expectations, we became good friends.

  Contre toute attente, nous devînmes amis.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1681199 #1681477

Grammar

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