properly — English to French

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

What it means: properly in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: properly (29 650). By style: everyday 99 · literary 7 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 5 224 · legal and administrative 3 480 · UN documents 20 836.

correctement

Used about 5 702 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · parliamentary ≈ 1 741 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 305 · UN documents ≈ 2 605).

• Are you brushing your teeth properly?

  Te brosses-tu correctement les dents ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · #40194 #1133022

• This law simply cannot be implemented properly.

  Cette loi ne peut tout simplement pas être appliquée correctement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1307340

• The oil record book has not been properly kept.

  Le registre des hydrocarbures n'a pas été tenu correctement.

  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 1738584

• Accordingly, backstopping must function properly.

  Il faut donc que les services d’appui aux opérations fonctionnent correctement.

  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 4727241

• The toilet doesn't flush properly.

  La chasse d'eau ne marche pas correctement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · #38948 #335726

convenablement

Used about 3 476 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 218 · legal and administrative ≈ 218 · UN documents ≈ 3 039).

• Out of a similar sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory.

  Du buffet pareil, convenablement habillé de napperons blancs et de fausses dentelles, l'évêque avait fait l'autel qui décorait son oratoire.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 327

• If this committee is to work properly it is vital that it gets the time to do the job correctly.

  Si l'on veut que cette commission puisse travailler convenablement il est vital qu'elle dispose du temps nécessaire pour mener à bien sa tâche.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1662092

• The strawberries must be packed in such a way as to protect the produce properly.

  Les fraises doivent être emballées de façon à être convenablement protégées.

  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 4923652

• 27. It was essential for peacekeeping operations to be properly financed.

  Il est capital que les opérations de maintien de la paix soient convenablement financées.

  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 4727263

• “Then it is not true,” resumed Coictier hotly, “that gout is an internal eruption; that a wound caused by artillery is to be cured by the application of a young mouse roasted; that young blood, properly injected, restores youth to aged veins; it is not true that two and two make four, and that emprostathonos follows opistathonos.”

  --Donc il n'est pas vrai, reprit Coictier avec chaleur, que la goutte soit une dartre en dedans, qu'on guérisse une plaie d'artillerie par l'application d'une souris rôtie, qu'un jeune sang convenablement infusé rende la jeunesse à de vieilles veines; il n'est pas vrai que deux et deux font quatre, et que l'emprosthotonos succède à l'opisthotonos!»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2443

More sentences

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

• His sons are not properly brought up.

  Ses fils ne sont pas bien élevés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and lbdx · checked, community translation · #287050 #11227166

• You've been properly led up the garden path.

  On vous a bien promenée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #16417 #2322060

• This window doesn't shut properly.

  Cette fenêtre ne ferme pas bien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · #10113410 #11448231

Grammar

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