played — English to French

How English played is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: played (32 804). By style: everyday 326 · literary 14 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 2 844 · legal and administrative 672 · UN documents 28 922.

joué

Used about 18 335 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 163 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 481 · legal and administrative ≈ 420 · UN documents ≈ 16 269). Forms: joue, joué.

• Yesterday I played with Tony.

  J'ai joué hier avec Tony.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hinto4 and Quazel · checked, community translation · #4719103 #977371

• He had played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel.

  Il avait joué le vaudeville à Saint-Mihiel.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15677

• and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

  disent: Nous vous avons joué de la flûte, et vous n’avez pas dansé; nous avons chanté des complaintes, et vous ne vous êtes pas lamentés.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:17

• Mr Piebalgs played a very important role here.

  M. Piebalgs a joué un rôle très important à cet égard.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1028723

• Saleh played a key role in facilitating the Houthi military expansion.

  Saleh a joué un rôle essentiel dans l'expansion militaire des Houthistes, qu'il a facilitée.

  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 4163481

rôle

Used about 5 514 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 652 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 · UN documents ≈ 4 820).

• But then, nothing, or almost nothing, is said about the role played by the Member States.

  Mais ensuite, rien n'est dit, ou presque, du rôle des États membres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 953324

• However, this company played an increasing role on the Community EMD market as well.

  Toutefois, cette société jouait également un rôle de plus en plus important sur le marché communautaire des EMD.

  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 1282121

• Gen. Kabarebe and Gen. Nziza have also played an instrumental role in sustaining the political activities of M23.

  James Kabarebe et Jacques Nziza jouent un rôle fondamental au regard des activités politiques du M23.

  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 26792471

• Nor should we forget the part played by the national parliaments and governments.

  N'oublions pas non plus le rôle des parlements et des gouvernements nationaux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2004617

• Moreover, there would also be a parallel decline in sales volumes, bearing in mind the central role played by captive banks in vehicle sales.

  Par ailleurs, une diminution parallèle des volumes vendus en aurait découlé, compte tenu du rôle central des banques captives pour les ventes automobiles.

  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 3875535

important

Used about 603 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 603).

• 20. The Special Rapporteur recognizes the important role played by the judiciary in the Republic of Korea in upholding the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

  20. The Special Rapporteur recognizes the important role played by the judiciary in the Republic of Korea in upholding the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

  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 23963990

jouait

Used about 56 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 48 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 3).

• He played with his cat.

  Il jouait avec sa chatte.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · #544938 #523650

• Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well.

  Quoique très vieille, elle jouait encore de la harpe, et fort bien.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10709

• But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, the LORD’s hand came on him.

  Maintenant, amenez-moi un joueur de harpe. Et comme le joueur de harpe jouait, la main de l’Éternel fut sur Élisée.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 3:15

• Ziri played all day.

  Ziri jouait toute la journée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #10216036 #11682272

• This splendid costume, on which the light played, seemed glazed with flame on every fold.

  Ce splendide costume, où se jouait la lumière, semblait glacé de flamme à tous ses plis.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7319

More sentences

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

• The band played several marches.

  La fanfare joua plusieurs marches.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #21254 #583266

• I didn't know that you played the oboe.

  J'ignorais que vous jouiez du hautbois.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7516162 #5964187

• We often played chess.

  Nous jouons souvent aux échecs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · #5251733 #425150

Grammar

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