avaient — French to English

How French avaient is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: avaient (253 509). By style: everyday 397 · literary 136 · biblical 432 · parliamentary 5 647 · legal and administrative 9 964 · UN documents 236 933.

states

Used about 49 949 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 588 · UN documents ≈ 49 361).

• La manifestation dans son ensemble aurait été beaucoup plus symbolique, si des artistes venant de tous les États membres y avaient été invités.

  The entire event would have achieved a far greater symbolism if artists from all of the Member States had been invited.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 920548

• Il a signalé que les 37 États et le Gouvernement fédéral avaient accru leur financement de l ' enseignement de base.

  It reported an increase in funding to basic education by all 37 states and the federal Government.

  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 14600612

• On a pu constater ces dernières années que les efforts de la Turquie pour devenir un État membre de l'Union européenne avaient des effets positifs.

  Recent years have shown that Turkey's efforts to become one of the European Union's Member States are having positive effects.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1515230

• 21. Au 5 mai 2005, 192 États avaient ratifié la Convention relative aux droits de l ' enfant ou y avaient adhéré.

  21. As at 5 May 2005, the Convention on the Rights of the Child had been ratified or acceded to by 192 States.

  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 13895483

• Le fait que l'Union européenne allait s'occuper de questions qui avaient toujours été au cur des États constituait une grande innovation.

  It was a great innovation that the European Union was going to deal with issues which had always been at the heart of the Member States.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 225671

said

Used about 10 075 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 118 · UN documents ≈ 9 872). Meaning: said in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Elles dirent qu'elles avaient soif.

  They said they're thirsty.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · #3737626 #6863825

• Jérémie dit alors à tout le peuple, aux hommes, aux femmes, à tous ceux qui lui avaient fait cette réponse:

  Then Jeremiah said to all the people—to the men and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 44:20

• Les programmes législatifs, nous avaient-on dit, avaient été réduits de 35 000 pages.

  Legislative programmes were said to be reduced by 35 000 pages.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 521649

• Depuis 2008, les recettes provenant des ressources ordinaires avaient plus que doublé, passant de 60 à 130 millions de dollars en 2012.

  Since 2008, regular resources income had more than doubled, he said, increasing from $60 million to $130 million in 2012.

  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 27899116

• Ils ont dit qu’ils avaient besoin d’un chapeau.

  They said they needed a hat.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dolomitt and Luornu · checked, community translation · #10933085 #8275473

More sentences

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

• Les enfants étaient ravis de voir leurs grands-parents qu'ils n'avaient pas vus depuis assez longtemps.

  The children were delighted to see their grandparents whom they had not seen for quite a long time.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and papabear · checked, community translation · #245758 #461228

• Ils avaient tous la voix rauque après avoir tant crié.

  They were all hoarse from shouting.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marioo and CK · checked, community translation · #32100 #8031612

• Les chats avaient vu les oiseaux.

  The cats saw the birds.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by martin9 and rul · checked, community translation · #13081621 #4924255

Grammar

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