seeks — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: seeks (23 068). By style: everyday 20 · literary 7 · biblical 35 · parliamentary 2 105 · legal and administrative 715 · UN documents 20 186.

demande

Used about 8 534 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 119 · UN documents ≈ 8 411).

• 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

• Where either Party seeks a review of this Agreement, it shall submit a reasoned request to the other Party.

  Lorsqu'une partie désire une révision du présent accord, elle soumet à l'autre partie une demande motivée.

  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 275075

cherche

Used about 2 347 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 482 · legal and administrative ≈ 149 · UN documents ≈ 1 682).

• He who seeks will find.

  Celui qui cherche trouvera.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amazigh_Bedar and Amazigh_Bedar · checked, community translation · #7034907 #7034908

• The I in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and gnaws.

  Le moi sans yeux hurle, cherche, tâtonne et ronge.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15616

• 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

• It seeks to approximate laws with common minimum penalties.

  Elle cherche à rapprocher les législations avec des sanctions communes minimales.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 288769

• 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

vise

Used about 2 271 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 194 · UN documents ≈ 1 682).

• Our position on this matter only seeks to prevent bureaucracy.

  Notre position dans ce dossier ne vise qu'à prévenir la bureaucratie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1286612

• it does not directly relate to the text which it seeks to amend;

  si son contenu n'a aucun rapport direct avec le texte qu'il vise à modifier;

  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 624748

• 20. The policy adopted by the Secretary-General also seeks to pay down debt to Member States when payments of arrears are received.

  Le principe posé par le Secrétaire général vise aussi à utiliser les arriérés de contributions pour rembourser les États Membres.

  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 6793680

• The proposal seeks simply to simplify the consolidation of current legislation.

  La proposition vise simplement à simplifier la consolidation de la législation actuelle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 949645

• its nature and its level is proportional to the handicaps it seeks to alleviate,

  sa nature et son niveau soient proportionnels aux handicaps qu’elle vise à pallier,

  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 3515537

More sentences

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

• Who seeks shall find the wise said.

  « Ceux qui cherchent trouvent » a dit le sage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Aghanim · checked, community translation · #11235103 #11234831

• No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  Aucun homme ne choisit le mal parce que c'est le mal; il le confond seulement avec le bonheur, le bien qu'il recherche.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #413861 #1107548

• I am just a traveller who seeks the purity of the soul.

  Je ne suis qu'un voyageur qui recherche la pureté de l'âme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kage and Scott · checked, community translation · #383895 #389655

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