sought — English to French

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

What it means: sought in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sought (44 272). By style: everyday 10 · literary 19 · biblical 99 · parliamentary 1 839 · legal and administrative 2 823 · UN documents 39 482.

cherché

Used about 4 567 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 383 · legal and administrative ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 4 113).

• Sami sought revenge by murder.

  Sami a cherché à se venger par le meurtre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #6378679 #6378698

• Monsieur the Archduke has more than once sought his gant[5] in my hose.”

  Monsieur l'archiduc a plus d'une fois cherché son gant dans mes chausses.»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 493

• but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me

  au contraire, lorsqu’il est venu à Rome, il m’a cherché avec beaucoup d’empressement, et il m’a trouvé.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 1:17

• We never sought to ensure that our regulations were enforceable.

  Nous n'avons jamais cherché à nous assurer que nos règles étaient applicables.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 35379

• The Commission sought cooperation from these 21 companies and from any other known producer, by requesting them to complete a sampling form.

  La Commission a cherché à obtenir la coopération de ces vingt et une sociétés et de tout autre producteur connu en les invitant à remplir un formulaire d’échantillonnage.

  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 579371

recherché

Used about 1 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 77 · legal and administrative ≈ 765 · UN documents ≈ 823).

• We sought to come to terms with them.

  Nous avons recherché un compromis avec eux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #28760 #1271813

• He has always sought compromise, and has worked well with all the political groups.

  Il a toujours recherché le compromis, en bonne collaboration avec l'ensemble des groupes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 480427

• The Commission sought and verified all the information deemed necessary for the investigation.

  La Commission a recherché et vérifié toutes les informations jugées nécessaires aux fins de l’enquête.

  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 5226138

• He had been sought by the security forces for the past two and a half years.

  Il était recherché depuis deux ans et demi par les forces de sécurité.

  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 4448297

• The European Union speaks with one voice, the Commission's, and the Council decides, by majority voting, i.e. the exact arrangement sought by the federalists.

  Là, l'Union européenne parle d'une seule voix, celle de la Commission et le Conseil décide, à la majorité, soit exactement le cas de figure recherché par les fédéralistes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732102

More sentences

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

• He sought serenity, closeted in study, remote from the wear and tear of the world.

  Il cherchait la sérénité, enfermé dans l'étude, loin du bruit et de l'agitation du monde.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #961786 #961821

• Dan needed money and sought financial relief from his father.

  Dan avait besoin d'argent et a demandé une aide financière auprès de son père.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #4025151 #4025500

• Tom sought advice from his family.

  Tom sollicita l'avis de sa famille.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #4588146 #4588170

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