tried — English to French

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

What it means: tried in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: tried (22 379), trieds (2). By style: everyday 1 001 · literary 35 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 2 930 · legal and administrative 267 · UN documents 18 129.

tenté

Used about 3 315 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 83 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 916 · legal and administrative ≈ 139 · UN documents ≈ 2 175).

• I tried to save you.

  J'ai tenté de vous sauver.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2240853 #2264083

• He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

  et qui même a tenté de profaner le temple. Et nous l’avons arrêté. Nous avons voulu le juger selon notre loi;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 24:6

• I have tried to find it in the newspapers.

  J'ai tenté de le découvrir dans les journaux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 385574

• During the same period, IKB tried to sell the two portfolios by public auction.

  À la même période, IKB a tenté de vendre les deux portefeuilles dans une vente publique aux enchères.

  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 1706047

• We have tried to mobilize available resources to the maximum.

  Nous avons tenté de mobiliser au maximum les ressources disponibles.

  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 7831836

essayé

Used about 2 793 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 501 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 794 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 · UN documents ≈ 1 450).

• I tried and failed.

  J'ai essayé et échoué.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and franlexcois · checked, community translation · #4498480 #4992948

• “And how about the day when you tried to pull me round in the Pearl?

  --Et le jour où tu as essayé de ramer plus fort que moi, dans la Perle?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1743

• David strapped his sword on his clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them.” Then David took them off.

  David ceignit l’épée de Saül par-dessus ses habits, et voulut marcher, car il n’avait pas encore essayé. Mais il dit à Saül: Je ne puis pas marcher avec cette armure, je n’y suis pas accoutumé. Et il s’en débarrassa.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 17:39

• It tried to transfer powers belonging to Parliament to itself.

  Il a essayé de s'arroger un pouvoir qui revient au Parlement européen.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 331550

• AVAS had previously tried several times to privatise the company, however, without any success.

  Auparavant, AVAS avait essayé à plusieurs reprises, sans succès, de privatiser l’entreprise.

  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 1404573

More sentences

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

• I must have tried on everything in the shop, but nothing looked right on me.

  J'ai dû essayer tous les articles du magasin, mais rien ne me va.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and minti · checked, community translation · #259603 #138945

• Tom tried to hit Mary.

  Tom essaya de toucher Mary.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5109583 #5706351

• Tom tried to appear calm.

  Tom chercha à paraître calme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Whidou · checked, community translation · #3422099 #8540621

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