seek — English to French

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

What it means: seek in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: seek (68 182), seeks (23 068). By style: everyday 71 · literary 15 · biblical 236 · parliamentary 6 459 · legal and administrative 3 599 · UN documents 80 870.

demande

Used about 18 115 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 12 · legal and administrative ≈ 412 · UN documents ≈ 17 690).

• Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

  Ne demande pas que ce qui arrive arrive comme tu veux. Mais veuille que les choses arrivent comme elles arrivent, et tu seras heureux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #8068507 #8068632

• But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

  Il leur répondit: Une génération méchante et adultère demande un miracle; il ne lui sera donné d’autre miracle que celui du prophète Jonas.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:39

• The United Kingdom seeks approval for a period of 10 years.

  Le Royaume-Uni demande l'autorisation du régime pour une période de dix ans.

  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 790651

• He seeks compensation in the amount of USD 228,374.

  Il demande une indemnité de USD 228 374.

  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 14242120

• An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them and departed.

  Une génération méchante et adultère demande un miracle; il ne lui sera donné d’autre miracle que celui de Jonas. Puis il les quitta, et s’en alla.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 16:4

cherche

Used about 10 495 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 89 · parliamentary ≈ 1 346 · legal and administrative ≈ 600 · UN documents ≈ 8 424). Forms: cherche, chercher.

• Seek and you shall find.

  Cherche et tu trouveras.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Shishir · checked, community translation · #11482895 #717444

• Gringoire began to seek fresh expedients.

  Gringoire se mit à chercher de nouvelles solutions.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6639

• But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

  Je ne cherche point ma gloire; il en est un qui la cherche et qui juge.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 8:50

• We should seek alternatives.

  Nous devons chercher des alternatives.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 108660

• service supplier means a person that supplies or seeks to supply a service;

  fournisseur de services désigne une personne qui fournit, ou cherche à fournir, un service;

  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 249470

More sentences

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

• Seek, and you will find.

  Cherchez, et vous trouverez.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #276705 #12632588

• There are those, who, in distress, seek the help of other people's prayers, but have no mind to pray for themselves.

  Il y a ceux qui, dans une situation désespérée, cherchent assistance dans les prières des autres, mais ne pensent pas à prier pour eux-mêmes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay_paul and Scott · checked, community translation · #391921 #391923

• Let's play hide and seek.

  Jouons à cache-cache !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2007528 #4906296

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