want — English to French

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

What it means: want in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: want (64 721), wants (8 438). By style: everyday 13 069 · literary 61 · biblical 80 · parliamentary 41 798 · legal and administrative 609 · UN documents 17 542.

veut

Used about 19 443 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 126 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 10 885 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 · UN documents ≈ 2 375).

• Tom wants a dog.

  Tom veut un chien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #6196168 #13830890

• “There is some one who wants to speak with you.”

  --Il y a là quelqu'un qui veut vous parler.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23484

• On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”

  Ce même jour, quelques pharisiens vinrent lui dire: Va-t’en, pars d’ici, car Hérode veut te tuer.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 13:31

• So, what more do people want?

  Que veut-on donc de plus?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 778050

• Does not want to change professional status

  Ne veut pas changer de statut professionnel

  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 3913847

veux

Used about 6 949 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 356 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 2 177 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 · UN documents ≈ 365).

• I want my freedom.

  Je veux ma liberté.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2011364 #4692223

• What do you want it for?”

  Pourquoi le veux-tu?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1181

• They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare?”

  Ils lui dirent: Où veux-tu que nous la préparions?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:9

• But I want to make three points.

  Je veux cependant faire trois groupes de remarques.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1770894

• What happens if you don’t want to go to another country?

  Que se passe-t-il si tu ne veux pas aller dans un autre pays?

  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 3251424

souhaite

Used about 5 607 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 136 · parliamentary ≈ 3 919 · legal and administrative ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 1 279).

• You're asking me to do something I don't want to do.

  Vous me demandez de faire quelque chose que je ne souhaite pas faire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2034083 #7776399

• Only a referendum will show whether the Danish population wants this to happen.

  Seul un référendum indiquera si la population danoise le souhaite.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1926242

• and does not want to have work

  et ne souhaite pas en avoir

  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 1520571

• Ireland wants to play its full part in this exercise of renewal.

  L ' Irlande souhaite jouer pleinement son rôle dans ce travail de renouvellement.

  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 6967133

• Madam President, anyone who wants to make an explanation of vote should actually be present!

  Madame le Président, celui qui souhaite déposer une explication de vote doit être présent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1767161

More sentences

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

• It's yours if you want it.

  C'est à vous, si vous en voulez.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3386077 #3386220

• They want to build one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

  Elles veulent construire l'un des plus beaux bâtiments du monde.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by derpapottamus and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4833044 #11662518

• Is there something in particular that you want to hear?

  Y a-t-il quelque chose de particulier que vous vouliez entendre ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1964713 #1965470

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