define — English to French

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

What it means: define in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: define (27 609), defines (13 457). By style: everyday 27 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 905 · legal and administrative 4 914 · UN documents 33 219.

définit

Used about 26 249 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 088 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 737 · UN documents ≈ 20 416). Forms: définir, définit.

• Love is hard to define.

  L'amour est difficile à définir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sicerabibax · checked, community translation · #4809779 #4811799

• Who defines these specific issues?

  Qui définit ces «certains» aspects?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1854253

• define a corrective action plan;

  il définit un plan d'actions correctives;

  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 4605155

• 22. Article 1 of the Convention defines torture.

  22. L ' article premier de la Convention définit la torture.

  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 22280916

• Learn to define your goals.

  Apprenez à définir vos objectifs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7813839 #8418524

More sentences

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

• How do you define success?

  Comment définis-tu le succès ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Petrus · checked, community translation · #5741690 #5743765

• How do you define fidelity?

  Comment définissez-vous la fidélité ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2223649 #2226599

• How do you define normal?

  Comment définis-tu la normalité ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3730898 #3979787

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