seen — English to French

How English seen 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: seen (54 463). By style: everyday 1 407 · literary 136 · biblical 224 · parliamentary 9 710 · legal and administrative 1 875 · UN documents 41 111.

comme

Used about 15 254 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 618 · legal and administrative ≈ 781 · UN documents ≈ 12 847).

• “I admit,” replied Mahiette, “that it is only in Paris that such Flemings can be seen.”

  --J'avoue, répondit Mahiette, qu'il n'y a que Paris pour voir des Flamands comme ceux-là.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3046

• The LORD will be seen over them. His arrow will flash like lightning. The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

  L’Éternel au-dessus d’eux apparaîtra, Et sa flèche partira comme l’éclair; Le Seigneur, l’Éternel, sonnera de la trompette, Il s’avancera dans l’ouragan du midi.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 9:14

• However, as we have seen, this does not apply to everyone.

  Toutefois, comme nous l'avons constaté, ces principes ne sont pas universellement appliqués.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1528765

• Ali Kony is seen as a potential successor to Joseph Kony as leader of the LRA.

  Ali Kony est pressenti comme successeur de Joseph Kony à la tête de la LRA.

  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 4329827

• As can be seen, arrests represent less than 9 per cent of the total.

  Comme on peut le voir, les arrestations représentent moins de 9 % du total.

  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 9109197

vu

Used about 5 255 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 938 · literary ≈ 60 · biblical ≈ 117 · parliamentary ≈ 2 428 · UN documents ≈ 1 713).

• Have you seen it?

  L'as-tu vu ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Vortarulo and Quazel · checked, community translation · #1227660 #914205

• “I have seen no one.”

  --Je n'ai vu personne.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2497

• LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

  Éternel, tu as vu ce qu’on m’a fait souffrir: Rends-moi justice!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:59

• This imitation sparkling wine has never seen a grape.

  Ce vin n'a en fait jamais vu une grappe de raisin.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1612001

• Over the past few months we have seen encouraging signs in the Middle East.

  Ces derniers mois nous avons vu des signes encourageants se manifester au Moyen-Orient.

  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 13153476

jamais

Used about 1 416 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 147 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 405 · UN documents ≈ 856).

• How come I've never seen you here before?

  Comment se fait-il que je ne t'ai jamais vue ici auparavant ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1885943 #2170357

• Only one was to be seen at a time.

  On n'en voyait jamais qu'un à la fois.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5304

• It must be the greatest international experiment in democracy the world has ever seen.

  Elle devrait être la plus grande expérience internationale au niveau de la démocratie que le monde ait jamais connue.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1662591

• This letter was not produced in Court and neither the author nor his counsel has ever seen it.

  Cette lettre n ' a pas été produite devant la Cour et ni l ' auteur ni son conseil ne l ' ont jamais vue.

  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 19912803

• It was one of the best movies they had ever seen.

  C'était l'un des meilleurs films qu'ils n’aient jamais vus.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · #8192077 #8222347

More sentences

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

• I haven't seen you for so long!

  Je ne t'ai pas vue depuis si longtemps !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by erikspen and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1531026 #1532783

• I haven't seen you for a while.

  Je ne vous ai pas vues depuis un moment.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #417014 #1356426

• Two weeks have passed and I haven't seen you.

  Deux semaines sont passées et je ne vous ai pas vue.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1719446 #1721755

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