attend — French to English

How French attend is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: attend (24 620), attende (365), attendes (11), attends (2 798). By style: everyday 765 · literary 22 · biblical 17 · parliamentary 3 827 · legal and administrative 668 · UN documents 22 495.

expect

Used about 6 325 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 106 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 056 · legal and administrative ≈ 472 · UN documents ≈ 4 686). Forms: expect, expected, expects. Meaning: expect in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'attends qu'il m'aide.

  I expect him to help me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eddiegab and CK · checked, community translation · #260088 #127599

• La prieure vous attend.

  The prioress expects you.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11782

• le maître de ce serviteur viendra le jour où il ne s’y attend pas et à l’heure qu’il ne connaît pas,

  the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 24:50

• Mais qu'attend au juste la société ?

  But just what does society expect?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 330271

• les flux de trésorerie que l'entité s'attend à recevoir.

  the cash flows that the entity expects to receive.

  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 4103332

look

Used about 4 274 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 53 · UN documents ≈ 4 218). Meaning: look in the Elamur Dictionary.

• --Mais comment, monsieur, envisagez-vous donc le sort qui vous attend?

  “But how do you look upon the fate, sir, which awaits you?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3163

• C’est le séjour des morts que j’attends pour demeure, C’est dans les ténèbres que je dresserai ma couche;

  If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 17:13

• J’attends avec impatience les propositions que la Commission a annoncées pour réduire la pollution à la source.

  I look to the Commission in expectation of the proposals that it has announced for reducing pollution at its source.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 851319

• J ' attends avec impatience vos questions.

  I look forward to your questions.

  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 16591952

• Que les étoiles de son crépuscule s’obscurcissent, Qu’elle attende en vain la lumière, Et qu’elle ne voie point les paupières de l’aurore!

  Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 3:9

forward

Used about 3 183 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 475 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 · UN documents ≈ 2 656). Meaning: forward in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'attends cela avec impatience.

  I'll look forward to it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and CM · checked, community translation · #42535 #6695

• J'attends avec intérêt vos points de vue !

  I look forward to hearing your opinions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 170697

• De plus, le Liban attend avec intérêt la mise sur pied de mécanismes spécifiques de l'UE visant à atténuer les risques liés aux grands programmes d'investissement.

  In addition Lebanon looks forward to the setting up of EU specific mechanisms to mitigate the risks associated with large investment programmes.

  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 248493

• J ' attends avec intérêt de travailler avec eux et avec tous les autres membres du Bureau.

  I am looking forward to working with them and other fellow Bureau members.

  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 18374886

• J'attends Noël avec impatience.

  I am looking forward to Christmas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Bruno and CK · checked, community translation · #253411 #7321

wait

Used about 2 926 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 561 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 396 · legal and administrative ≈ 79 · UN documents ≈ 1 875). Forms: wait, waiting. Meaning: wait in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Hé, attends un peu.

  Hey, wait a minute.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #3575413 #13378009

• --Je vous attends ici.

  “I will wait for you here.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28358

• J’espère en l’Éternel, mon âme espère, Et j’attends sa promesse.

  I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 130:5

• Le monde n'attend pas les ergotages européens.

  The world is certainly not waiting to be patronised by Europe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 362448

• Le système central attend que tous les États membres destinataires aient répondu, puis regroupe toutes les réponses et transmet la réponse ainsi consolidée à l'État membre demandeur.

  The central hub will wait for each responding Member State to answer, consolidate all the answers and forward the consolidated response to the requesting Member State.

  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 3970024

More sentences

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

• Tout le monde attend de me voir.

  Everyone is expecting to see me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by madjidoumnia and tieguy · checked, community translation · #13807539 #12771527

• On attend de vous que vous les aidiez.

  You're required to help them.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Swift · checked, community translation · #15803 #3639454

• Vous n'êtes pas préparées à ce qui vous attend.

  You're not prepared for what awaits you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #3729203 #4196801

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