wishes — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: wishes (40 009). By style: everyday 72 · literary 7 · parliamentary 3 951 · legal and administrative 1 089 · UN documents 34 890.

souhaite

Used about 19 087 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 1 564 · legal and administrative ≈ 794 · UN documents ≈ 16 718).

• He wishes to talk to you.

  Il souhaite te parler.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yakuwari and THURET · checked, community translation · #5388205 #3655764

• So again, heartfelt best wishes!

  Je souhaite encore une fois bonne chance au rapport.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1788657

• The author of which wishes that his identity be kept confidential.

  Dont l'auteur souhaite garder son identité confidentielle.

  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 826286

• May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do likewise?

  Puis-je considérer que l ' Assemblée souhaite agir de même?

  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 554948

• Everybody wishes for happiness.

  Chacun souhaite le bonheur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shiawase and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #920171 #920495

je

Used about 3 718 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 82 · UN documents ≈ 3 634).

• In spite of my irritation I was moved with these words, as well as with the violence my uncle was doing to his own wishes in making so hazardous a proposal.

  En dépit de mon irritation, je fus ému de ces paroles et de la violence que se faisait mon oncle pour tenir un pareil langage.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1881

• If anyone wishes to protest against a situation such as that described by Mr Sacrédeus, I would suggest that they use the mechanisms outlined in Article 7.

  Si quelqu'un veut critiquer une situation telle que celle décrite par M. Sacrédeus, je présume que l'on aura recours aux mécanismes proposés dans l'article 7.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 203291

• May I take it that the Assembly wishes to adopt the draft resolution?

  Puis-je considérer que l ' Assemblée décide d ' adopter le projet de résolution?

  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 8551121

• May I take it that the Assembly wishes to adopt draft resolution A/64/L.3, as orally revised?

  Puis-je considérer que l ' Assemblée décide d ' adopter le projet de résolution A/64/L.3, tel qu ' oralement révisé?

  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 20046331

• I also leave her my best wishes for success, so that we can conclude very quickly what I have not been able to conclude.

  Je lui adresse aussi mes voeux de succès, de façon qu ' on puisse très vite conclure ce que je n ' ai pas été en mesure de conclure.

  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 1817161

More sentences

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

• He wishes he had gone to the theater last night.

  Il aurait souhaité aller au théâtre hier soir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #296935 #132123

• She cremated him against his wishes.

  Elle l'a incinéré, contrairement à ses dernières volontés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and parquette · checked, community translation · #887056 #1023221

• Mr. Young wishes his son would study harder.

  M. Young aimerait que son fils travaille davantage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and TRANG · checked, community translation · #30172 #377961

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