keep — English to French

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

What it means: keep in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: keep (49 610), keeps (2 788). By style: everyday 1 709 · literary 41 · biblical 365 · parliamentary 8 302 · legal and administrative 6 453 · UN documents 35 528.

garder

Used about 5 025 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 320 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 101 · parliamentary ≈ 692 · legal and administrative ≈ 202 · UN documents ≈ 3 701). Forms: garde, garder.

• I want to keep one.

  Je veux en garder un.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2011415 #2435780

• “Will you keep my child for me?”

  --Voulez-vous me garder mon enfant?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3385

• ‘The LORD bless you, and keep you.

  Que l’Éternel te bénisse, et qu’il te garde!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 6:24

• We should keep this perspective in mind.

  Nous devrions garder cette perspective à l'esprit.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 147460

• The Secretariat shall keep a record of such requests.

  Le Secrétariat garde trace écrite de ces demandes.

  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 4589451

tient

Used about 4 408 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 142 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 412 · UN documents ≈ 2 591).

• He always keeps his word.

  Il tient toujours parole.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Aiji · checked, community translation · #289227 #133452

• “She keeps the inn.”

  Elle tient l'auberge.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8482

• Any agreements will only count for something if Turkey keeps its word.

  Tous les accords sont valables si la Turquie tient sa parole.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1742737

• the depositary shall keep its record up-to-date.

  le dépositaire tient son registre à jour.

  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 2311657

• ACI keeps its membership regularly informed of ICAO activities.

  Le Conseil tient ses membres régulièrement informés des activités de l ' OACI.

  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 10648355

More sentences

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

• Don't make promises you can't keep.

  Ne faites pas une promesse que vous ne pouvez pas tenir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mamat · checked, community translation · #1477100 #128306

• You keep out of this.

  Reste en dehors de ça.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #240558 #139595

• I'll keep the fish alive.

  Je maintiendrai le poisson en vie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #9489119 #3361849

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