Elamur Translateseeking — English to French
How English seeking is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.
The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: seeking (43 105). By style: everyday 24 · literary 22 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 3 752 · legal and administrative 1 548 · UN documents 37 733.
cherche
Used about 866 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 786).
I am seeking the light.
Je cherche la lumière.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #13364977 #11111758It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a person who is seeking to recall a name:—
Bien en prit à Jondrette, car en ce moment-là même M. Leblanc se retournait vers lui, et lui disait de cet air de quelqu'un qui cherche le nom:
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16367“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
Le royaume des cieux est encore semblable à un marchand qui cherche de belles perles.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 13:45On the other hand, Italy recalls that Alitalia has for more than ten years been fruitlessly seeking to obtain a new slot to London-Heathrow.
A l'inverse, l'Italie rappelle qu'Alitalia cherche depuis 10 ans à obtenir un nouveau slot à Londres-Heathrow.
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 781751Consequently, the Division has been actively seeking extrabudgetary funds to attend meetings on a case-by-case basis.
Par conséquent, la Division cherche activement des fonds extrabudgétaires pour financer sa participation à des réunions au cas par cas.
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 15372907
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
They are seeking a solution.
Ils sont en train de chercher une solution.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nata23 and nata23 · checked, community translation · #1108275 #1108276He was seeking re-election.
Il cherchait à se faire réélire.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and Aiji · checked, community translation · #802977 #11527081You're just seeking to embellish all this!
Tu cherches juste à enjoliver tout ça !
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #943688 #943673
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