gave — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: gave (31 274), gaves (1). By style: everyday 1 371 · literary 61 · biblical 484 · parliamentary 3 320 · legal and administrative 1 430 · UN documents 24 609.

donné

Used about 4 633 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 771 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 262 · parliamentary ≈ 830 · legal and administrative ≈ 238 · UN documents ≈ 2 511). Forms: donna, donné.

• He gave a speech.

  Il a donné un discours.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2764262 #7352878

• He gave the waiter six sous.

  Il donna six sous au garçon.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15382

• Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

  Et Laban donna pour servante à Léa, sa fille, Zilpa, sa servante.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 29:24

• You even gave the name 'écu' to the future European currency.

  Vous avez même donné le nom d'écu à la future monnaie européenne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 487632

• gave negative results, and]

  ont donné des résultats négatifs, et]

  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 2095557

More sentences

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

• The customers gave him fleeting glances, then returned to their conversations.

  Les clients ont jeté de brefs regards sur lui, puis ont repris leurs conversations.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cafe and lbdx · checked, community translation · #1443528 #10580433

• I gave him no choice.

  Je ne lui ai pas laissé le choix.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3916495 #11188436

• Tom gave his dog a hug.

  Tom fit un câlin à son chien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and GB3 · checked, community translation · #6579358 #6580308

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