used — English to French

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

What it means: used in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: used (379 391), useds (1). By style: everyday 1 485 · literary 21 · biblical 32 · parliamentary 17 800 · legal and administrative 106 216 · UN documents 253 838.

utilisé

Used about 219 790 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 248 · parliamentary ≈ 8 158 · legal and administrative ≈ 81 875 · UN documents ≈ 129 509). Forms: utilisé, utilisée, utilisées, utilisés.

• It can be used as a knife.

  Ça peut être utilisé comme un couteau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Katastrauff · checked, community translation · #36547 #7723624

• Can it also be used for this?

  L'enseignement peut-il être utilisé aussi à cette fin ?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 441722

• pH (reference of the test method used);

  Le pH (référence de la méthode d'essai utilisée).

  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 3538510

• Photos may not be used in advertising.

  Les photos ne peuvent être utilisées à des fins publicitaires.

  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 16068113

• Iodine is used to purify water.

  L'iode est utilisé pour purifier l'eau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orcrist and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2354292 #13284845

être

Used about 7 456 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 213 · UN documents ≈ 5 180).

• She used to enjoy being with him.

  Elle prenait plaisir à être avec lui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #887485 #1357995

• The poor child, who was used to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in confusion.

  La pauvre enfant, accoutumée à être battue, ne savait ce que cela voulait dire, et s'en allait toute honteuse.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9478

• However, much work is needed before the images can be used, and this is what is urgently needed at the moment.

  Cependant, un travail considérable doit être effectué avant de pouvoir utiliser les images, et c'est ce à quoi il faut s'atteler d'urgence actuellement.

  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 4469967

• Either of the following two techniques shall be used.

  L ' une ou l ' autre des deux méthodes suivantes doit être appliquée.

  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 15589154

• Language can be used in many ways.

  Le langage peut être employé de diverses manières.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rkqb and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1703315 #1703765

More sentences

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

• Tatoeba is a tool, which can be used with students in class.

  Tatoeba est un outil utilisable en classe avec des étudiants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and pit · checked, community translation · #469681 #470821

• I remember what Tom used to be like.

  Je me souviens de comment était Tom avant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Toynop · checked, community translation · #4499561 #5801746

• I'm used to eating alone.

  Je suis habituée à manger seule.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1429061 #10158586

Grammar

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