expand — English to French

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

What it means: expand in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: expand (27 212), expands (1 201). By style: everyday 17 · literary 1 · parliamentary 917 · legal and administrative 778 · UN documents 26 700.

élargir

Used about 7 231 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 162 · legal and administrative ≈ 114 · UN documents ≈ 6 953). Forms: élargir, élargit.

• The ray of reason must expand again.

  Le rayon de la raison doit à nouveau s'élargir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #4257301 #4257302

• We are looking for new players to expand the base.

  Nous cherchons de nouveaux joueurs pour élargir la base.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1432661

• The EPBD expands the scope of Member States' LTRSs.

  La DPEB élargit le champ d'application des SRLT des États membres.

  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 4851932

• Nevertheless, it was able to expand its activities.

  Il a cependant pu élargir son champ d’action.

  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 5773521

• Is it necessary to expand human knowledge with space exploration?

  Est-il nécessaire d'élargir la connaissance de l'Homme à travers l'exploration de l'espace ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by doswans and TRANG · checked, community translation · #330617 #3963

développer

Used about 2 400 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 86 · legal and administrative ≈ 87 · UN documents ≈ 2 225).

• Could you please expand the topic?

  Pourriez-vous développer le sujet ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2883417 #8587002

• The real economy of our countries needs new impetus to expand.

  L'économie réelle de nos pays nécessite de nouvelles impulsions afin de se développer.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1994493

• expand existing heat or cold generation capacity.

  développer les capacités de production de chaleur ou de froid existantes.

  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 4570572

• (c) Continue its efforts to expand pre-school education;

  c) De poursuivre ses efforts pour développer l ' enseignement préscolaire;

  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 7922321

• People want more money to expand educational institutions.

  Les gens veulent plus d'argent pour développer les institutions éducatives.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and SUZIE · checked, community translation · #19107 #9190

étendre

Used about 1 926 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 96 · legal and administrative ≈ 157 · UN documents ≈ 1 669).

• The company has decided to expand its business to Germany.

  L'entreprise a décidé d'étendre son activité en Allemagne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3391013 #3392366

• We support anything that improves and expands the internal market.

  Nous soutenons tout ce qui peut améliorer et étendre le marché intérieur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1488958

• Expand and improve transport infrastructures

  Étendre et améliorer les infrastructures de transports

  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 834973

• To that end, it is proposed to expand the supply of housing with State participation.

  Il est prévu d ' étendre l ' offre de logements grâce à la participation de l ' État.

  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 29616154

• The fire, which has been raging for over a week in eastern California, continues to expand.

  L'incendie, qui sévit depuis plus d'une semaine dans l'est de la Californie, continue de s'étendre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and RaspaKrusto · checked, community translation · #6693783 #2706972

More sentences

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

• The company shelved plans to expand into Asia.

  L'entreprise a abandonné ses projets d'expansion en Asie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3206146 #11906920

• Humanity will expand to the stars.

  L'humanité se propagera vers les étoiles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11668582 #11838196

• It'd definitely be worth it to expand on your idea.

  Ton idée vaut sûrement le coup d'être explorée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by xellugis and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1241181 #939232

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