need — English to French

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

What it means: need in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: need (471 138), needs (259 395). By style: everyday 5 818 · literary 49 · biblical 66 · parliamentary 96 965 · legal and administrative 34 323 · UN documents 593 312.

besoin

Used about 283 058 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 060 · literary ≈ 32 · biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 37 372 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 871 · UN documents ≈ 228 672). Forms: besoin, besoins.

• Tom needs a cab.

  Tom a besoin d'un taxi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and mervert1 · checked, community translation · #2870357 #3431438

• “You have no need to tell me that.

  Vous n'avez pas besoin de me le dire.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11295

• They said, “The Lord needs it.”

  Ils répondirent: Le Seigneur en a besoin.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 19:34

• That is something that Europe needs.

  Voilà ce dont l'Europe a besoin.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1581540

• If no, please justify the need for Union support

  Dans la négative, justifiez le besoin de soutien de l'Union.

  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 3586281

doit

Used about 56 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 303 · parliamentary ≈ 15 151 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 933 · UN documents ≈ 37 082).

• The gate needs to be closed.

  Le portail doit être fermé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4665730 #5939124

• This is where the Commission needs to act as promptly as possible.

  C'est en cela que la Commission doit agir le plus rapidement possible.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 872936

• The definition of the European electronic toll service needs to address that concern.

  La définition du service européen de télépéage doit répondre à ce souci.

  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 425886

• The Council is in dire need of reform.

  Le Conseil doit absolument être réformé.

  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 10165505

• This question needs to be asked.

  Cette question doit être posée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and BobbyLee · checked, community translation · #9623014 #9401446

faut

Used about 19 755 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 970 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 060 · legal and administrative ≈ 358 · UN documents ≈ 12 361).

• I need one of those.

  M'en faut une.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and menaud · checked, community translation · #8834257 #13827202

• “Sir,” said he, “I am in need of fifteen hundred francs.”

  --Monsieur, dit-il, il me faut quinze cents francs.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9104

• In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

  C’est là ce qui fait votre joie, quoique maintenant, puisqu’il le faut, vous soyez attristés pour un peu de temps par diverses épreuves,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 1:6

• We need action of a quite different kind for that.

  Il faut pour cela d'autres actes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2027813

• In addition, the current minimum level of information provision to members and beneficiaries needs to be increased.

  Par ailleurs, il faut accroître le niveau minimum d'information fourni aux affiliés et aux bénéficiaires.

  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 3906818

More sentences

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

• We need to get rid of her.

  Nous devons nous débarrasser d'elle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3911511 #12255252

• We need to remember who helped us.

  Nous devons nous souvenir de qui nous a aidés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adrien_FR · checked, community translation · #9620469 #11595174

• You don't need to apologise.

  Vous n'êtes pas obligée de présenter des excuses.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #11075893 #2288748

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