play — English to French

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

What it means: play in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: play (73 843), plays (11 493). By style: everyday 1 590 · literary 33 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 11 016 · legal and administrative 2 180 · UN documents 70 487.

joue

Used about 49 886 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 275 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 5 164 · legal and administrative ≈ 840 · UN documents ≈ 42 586). Forms: joue, jouent, jouer.

• He plays the piano.

  Il joue du piano.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #2665952 #2860203

• “Play!” said Jean Valjean.

  --Joue, dit Jean Valjean.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9420

• There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

  Là se promènent les navires, Et ce léviathan que tu as formé pour se jouer dans les flots.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 104:26

• Is he going to play the lottery or what?

  Il va jouer au loto ou quoi?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1458320

• Digital content plays an important role in that evolution.

  Le contenu numérique joue un rôle important dans cette évolution.

  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 4869786

rôle

Used about 14 082 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 902 · legal and administrative ≈ 636 · UN documents ≈ 9 545).

• Mr President, two factors play a role in this proposal.

  Monsieur le Président, deux éléments jouent un rôle dans cette proposition.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 166613

• These projects will play a crucial role in finding new solutions.

  Ces projets joueront un rôle crucial dans la recherche de nouvelles solutions.

  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 535163

• 60. Women play a critical role in the family.

  Les femmes jouent un rôle prépondérant dans la famille.

  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 7050926

• It is not only sport that has a potential role to play here, however;

  Pourtant, le sport n’est pas le seul à avoir un rôle potentiel à jouer dans ce cadre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 785172

• European and national social partners should play a central role.

  Les partenaires sociaux européens et nationaux devraient jouer un rôle de premier plan.

  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 571932

important

Used about 734 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 734).

• In this regard, regional and subregional cooperation plays an important role in sharing expertise and promoting space and geographic information system applications for disaster risk reduction and management.

  In this regard, regional and subregional cooperation plays an important role in sharing expertise and promoting space and geographic information system applications for disaster risk reduction and management.

  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 28246842

More sentences

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

• Since when do you play chess?

  Depuis quand jouez-vous aux échecs ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10314597 #10314602

• Don't play with matches.

  Ne jouez pas avec les allumettes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Maxence · checked, community translation · #2270517 #7700487

• You play the piano, don't you?

  Tu joues du piano, n'est-ce pas ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sicerabibax · checked, community translation · #3330887 #4818589

Grammar

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