become — English to French

How English become is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: become in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: become (125 371), becomes (17 803). By style: everyday 807 · literary 79 · biblical 266 · parliamentary 19 405 · legal and administrative 9 867 · UN documents 112 750.

devient

Used about 27 789 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 261 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 3 841 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 336 · UN documents ≈ 22 315).

• Boiling water becomes steam.

  L’eau bouillante devient de la vapeur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Talwit · checked, community translation · #11669988 #7452373

• Man there becomes a dragon.

  L'homme y devient dragon.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15625

• Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?

  Israël est-il un esclave acheté, ou né dans la maison? Pourquoi donc devient-il une proie?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 2:14

• The more you feed it, the more insolent it becomes’.

  Plus on le nourrit, plus il devient insolent.»

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 778694

• The group becomes a notional reporting agent.

  Le groupe devient un agent déclarant fictif.

  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 3229489

devenir

Used about 26 639 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 210 · literary ≈ 25 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 2 426 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 645 · UN documents ≈ 22 315). Forms: devenir, devenu.

• What will become of us?

  Qu'allons-nous devenir ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ooneykcall and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #10706270 #976122

• What was to become of Marius?

  Qu'allait devenir Marius?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13923

• So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

  Suis-je devenu votre ennemi en vous disant la vérité?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:16

• It needs to become part of the European agenda.

  Elle doit devenir partie intégrante du programme européen.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1360171

• A member's seat has become vacant following the end of the term of office of Ms Mercedes BRESSO.

  Un siège de membre est devenu vacant à la suite de la fin du mandat de Mme Mercedes BRESSO,

  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 3155221

plus

Used about 14 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 2 830 · legal and administrative ≈ 719 · UN documents ≈ 10 570).

• The breathing becomes more and more hard.

  Respirer est de plus en plus dur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sciberc and Lulantis · checked, community translation · #3464872 #3465005

• Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:—

  Plus tard, quand on distingue le vacarme déchirant et lugubre de la mousqueterie et des feux de peloton, le boutiquier dit:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23161

• Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.

  Donnez des ailes à Moab, Et qu’il parte au vol! Ses villes seront réduites en désert, Elles n’auront plus d’habitants.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 48:9

• Pre-emptive wars lacking any legitimacy must become a thing of the past!

  Car il ne doit plus jamais y avoir de guerre préventive sans légitimité !

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 447074

• The more detailed the application number is given, the more important this information becomes.

  Plus le numéro de demande fourni est détaillé, plus ces données sont importantes.

  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 3391674

More sentences

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

• The competition has become fierce.

  La concurrence est devenue féroce.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #19270 #970266

• They've become used to the cold.

  Elles se sont accoutumées au froid.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Amastan · checked, community translation · #8589791 #2902355

• Do you often become dizzy if you get up from bed quickly?

  Avez-vous souvent des vertiges lorsque vous vous levez rapidement du lit ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9851488 #9965621

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