clarify — English to French

How English clarify is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: clarifies (1 778), clarify (24 198). By style: everyday 14 · parliamentary 2 818 · legal and administrative 2 407 · UN documents 20 737.

préciser

Used about 9 679 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 352 · legal and administrative ≈ 903 · UN documents ≈ 8 424). Forms: précise, préciser.

• I should like to ask the Commissioner to clarify his answer.

  Je voudrais demander au commissaire de préciser sa réponse.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 23774

• The Council considers it necessary to clarify certain provisions.

  Le Conseil estime qu'il est nécessaire de préciser certaines dispositions.

  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 3172122

• To clarify the current problematic issues.

  Préciser les questions posant actuellement problème;

  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 24597790

• Mr Rübig, could you clarify your question a little further?

  Monsieur Rübig, pourriez-vous préciser quelque peu votre question?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1778870

• The Commission clarifies that this was done on a purely random basis.

  La Commission précise que le choix a été effectué sur une base purement aléatoire.

  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 3308296

clarifier

Used about 4 939 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 321 · legal and administrative ≈ 802 · UN documents ≈ 2 808). Forms: clarifie, clarifier.

• Can you clarify that?

  Pouvez-vous clarifier cela ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3327427 #11603896

• First, it was important to clarify what we mean by infrastructure.

  D'une part, il était important de clarifier ce qu'est une infrastructure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 182789

• UNSCR 2094 (2013) clarifies the term “luxury goods”.

  La RCSNU 2094 (2013) clarifie le champ d'application du terme 愦灭;quot;articles de luxe愦灭;quot;.

  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 2785493

• Clarifies lines of management

  Clarifie les voies administratives

  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 24898923

• Let me clarify something.

  Laissez-moi clarifier quelque chose.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tom9358 and genes1s · checked, community translation · #12961028 #13353392

More sentences

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

• I just wanted to clarify that.

  Je voulais simplement m'en assurer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3169457 #1564131

• I would like to clarify a few things.

  Je voudrais mettre quelques choses au clair.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Olcyx · checked, community translation · #11188351 #12669889

• Clarify.

  Clarifiez.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by langue and pkill · checked, community translation · #10057951 #10499883

Grammar

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