return — English to French

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

What it means: return in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: return (97 405), returns (10 994). By style: everyday 320 · literary 73 · biblical 246 · parliamentary 6 192 · legal and administrative 13 277 · UN documents 88 291.

retour

Used about 38 806 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 677 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 043 · UN documents ≈ 34 029). Forms: retour, retours.

• What do you expect in return?

  Qu'attendez-vous en retour ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2006443 #12248205

• I will not speak of the sufferings we endured in our return.

  Je ne m'appesantirai pas sur les souffrances de notre retour.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1788

• So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.

  Et il s’en alla par un autre chemin, il ne prit pas à son retour le chemin par lequel il était venu à Béthel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 13:10

• I voted against the Returns Directive.

  J'ai voté contre la directive sur le retour.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1101055

• Pool of return specialists

  Réserve de spécialistes des questions de retour

  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 4039952

rendement

Used about 9 501 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 387 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 596 · UN documents ≈ 5 518).

• It is not just about economic returns.

  Il ne s’agit pas uniquement de rendement économique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 736679

• return on equity after tax.

  rendement des capitaux propres après impôt

  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 4206534

• It can also be assessed in terms of private and social returns.

  On peut aussi l ' évaluer par référence à son rendement économique individuel ou à son rendement social.

  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 4073124

• Much has been done to improve the environmental returns of European Union's aid programmes.

  Et des mesures importantes ont été prises pour améliorer le rendement des programmes d'assistance de l'Union en matière d'environnement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1648177

• benchmarking work on the rate of return

  des travaux comparatifs sur le taux de rendement.

  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 3484703

revenir

Used about 3 456 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 516 · legal and administrative ≈ 138 · UN documents ≈ 2 759).

• Do you think Tom can return?

  Penses-tu que Tom peut revenir ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · #6775526 #6167258

• “So you were telling me to return?”

  «Vous me disiez donc de revenir?»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6099

• before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  Avant que je m’en aille, pour ne plus revenir, Dans le pays des ténèbres et de l’ombre de la mort,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 10:21

• Allow me, though, to return to an unsavoury point.

  Mais permettez-moi de revenir sur un point désagréable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 740680

• Every brake control shall be designed such that it returns to the fully off position when released.

  Toutes les commandes de frein doivent être conçues de façon à revenir à leur position de départ quand elles sont desserrées.

  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 5549633

More sentences

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

• I will not return their money to them.

  Je ne leur rendrai pas leur argent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6934248 #8420904

• Jonas didn’t return.

  Jonas n'est pas revenu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · #11634762 #12477004

• Aimee will return home at three o'clock.

  Aimée va rentrer chez elle à trois heures.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jesse and Eldad · checked, community translation · #3581058 #3590075

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