propose — English to French

How English propose is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: propose in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: propose (27 108), proposes (15 586). By style: everyday 31 · literary 2 · parliamentary 9 045 · legal and administrative 3 034 · UN documents 30 582.

propose

Used about 30 831 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 6 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 718 · UN documents ≈ 21 981). Forms: propose, proposer.

• Man proposes, God disposes.

  L'homme propose, Dieu dispose.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orge and TRANG · checked, community translation · #270367 #4032

• The Commission proposes EUR 13 million.

  La Commission propose 13 millions d'euros.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 424498

• DRAX proposes the following:

  Drax propose ce qui suit:

  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 560005

• Objective I propose new text

  1 Objectif Je propose un nouveau texte.

  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 26894896

• Man proposes, but God disposes.

  L'homme propose, Dieu dispose.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CarpeLanam and TRANG · checked, community translation · #7031132 #4032

More sentences

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

• I'm going to propose to Mary.

  Je vais demander à Mary de m'épouser.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5851214 #5803772

• Did he propose to you?

  T'a-t-il demandé en mariage ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #460864 #130672

• How do you propose we do that?

  Comment proposez-vous que nous le fassions ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3592210 #3601295

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