operate — English to French

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

What it means: operate in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: operate (34 681), operates (11 815). By style: everyday 32 · parliamentary 3 716 · legal and administrative 9 419 · UN documents 33 329.

fonctionner

Used about 10 313 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 355 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 355 · UN documents ≈ 6 596). Forms: fonctionne, fonctionnement, fonctionner.

• This machine is hard to operate.

  Cette machine est difficile à faire fonctionner.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MrJuice and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11357244 #11365441

• That is the way the EU process operates.

  C'est comme ça que fonctionne le processus de l'UE.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 469722

• b. Able to operate at negative pressure;

  b. possibilité de fonctionner en pression négative;

  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 4091384

• If a special device is used, this must operate automatically.

  Si un dispositif spécial est utilisé, il doit fonctionner automatiquement.

  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 24798319

• The lawn mower needs gas to operate.

  La tondeuse à gazon a besoin d'essence pour fonctionner.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and rene1596 · checked, community translation · #681056 #1190537

opère

Used about 3 317 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 348 · legal and administrative ≈ 883 · UN documents ≈ 2 083).

• He usually operates behind tightly closed doors.

  Il opère souvent en sous-main.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by charlotte13 and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #2032570 #14045061

• It operates with complete independence.

  Il opère de manière complètement indépendante.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1410638

• According to the expert, Sernam operates mainly in the following segments:

  Selon l’expert, Sernam opère principalement dans:

  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 805862

• The JISC operates in a transparent manner to the extent possible.

  20. Le Comité opère autant que possible dans la transparence.

  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 15787350

• A veritable synchronized ballet of nanomolecular engineering operates in our cells, challenging human understanding.

  Un véritable ballet synchronisé d'ingénierie nanomoléculaire opère dans nos cellules, défiant la compréhension humaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10568609 #10568612

More sentences

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

• Do you have a license to operate a motor boat?

  Avez-vous un permis pour conduire un bateau à moteur ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4384264 #11166439

• The appliance is wonderfully simple to operate.

  L'appareil est merveilleusement simple à utiliser.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fekundulo and lbdx · checked, community translation · #4472299 #8890565

• Pickpockets may operate in this area.

  Les voleurs à la tire peuvent opérer dans cette zone.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #878357 #881845

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