command — English to French

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

What it means: command in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: command (22 249), commands (1 140). By style: everyday 56 · literary 8 · biblical 158 · parliamentary 416 · legal and administrative 4 155 · UN documents 18 596.

commande

Used about 8 992 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 87 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 857 · UN documents ≈ 6 005). Forms: commande, commandement.

• Who's in command of this unit?

  Qui commande cette unité ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2483374 #9576576

• Enjolras issued this command:

  Enjolras jeta ce commandement:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26053

• You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

  Vous êtes mes amis, si vous faites ce que je vous commande.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 15:14

• History commands us and we have commitments to do this.

  L'histoire nous le commande, nos engagements nous y obligent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 290892

• Regional Operations Command-Sittwe

  Commandement régional des opérations (ROC) - Sittwe

  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 1175003

ordres

Used about 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 13 · legal and administrative ≈ 130 · UN documents ≈ 775).

• Your wish is my command.

  Vos désirs sont des ordres.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #1526410 #11955043

• The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

  Le roi dit à la femme: Va dans ta maison. Je donnerai des ordres à ton sujet.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 14:8

• Your wish is my command!

  Vos désirs sont des ordres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887561

• give commands to the person at helm including checking the person’s required knowledge and skills

  donner des ordres à la personne à la barre, y compris vérifier les connaissances et les compétences requises de la personne;

  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 5130069

• Speed and torque commands shall be issued at a frequency of at least 5 Hz.

  Les ordres de régime et de couple doivent être émis à une fréquence d ' au moins 5 Hz.

  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 24678186

More sentences

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

• One must learn to obey to know how to command.

  Il faut apprendre à obéir pour savoir commander.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · #6581051 #6560033

• This is a command, not truly a descriptive sentence.

  Ceci est une instruction, pas réellement une phrase descriptive.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #11951617 #11949707

• They had a good command of French.

  Ils avaient une bonne maîtrise du français.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and U2FS · checked, community translation · #306011 #786614

Grammar

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