connaître — French to English

How French connaître is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: connaître (69 212). By style: everyday 302 · literary 10 · biblical 146 · parliamentary 2 955 · legal and administrative 4 016 · UN documents 61 783.

know

Used about 10 616 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 258 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 82 · parliamentary ≈ 1 293 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 255 · UN documents ≈ 7 723). Forms: know, known. Meaning: know in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je veux vous connaître.

  I want to know you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Amastan · checked, community translation · #1825303 #12093232

• --Et à quoi ça te sert-il de le connaître?

  “And what good does it do to know him?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29636

• et il leur recommanda sévèrement de ne pas le faire connaître,

  and commanded them that they should not make him known,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:16

• Je voudrais en connaître la raison.

  I would like to know why this is the case.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 199366

• Trois importateurs se sont fait connaître.

  Three importers made themselves known.

  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 2935013

views

Used about 2 978 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 506 · UN documents ≈ 1 287).

• J'aimerais connaître l'avis du commissaire à ce propos.

  I would be glad to hear the Commissioner's views on this.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1608502

• À cet égard, les parties intéressées suivantes ont fait connaître leur point de vue:

  In this regard, the following interested parties made their views known:

  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 451986

• Les États Membres doivent se voir offrir des possibilités égales de faire connaître leurs vues, conformément aux résolutions de l ' Assemblée générale.

  Member States must be given equal opportunities to provide their views, in accordance with resolutions of the General Assembly.

  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 16648459

• Nous avons hâte de connaître l'avis du Parlement à l'occasion du débat de ce jour et de la résolution que vous adopterez ensuite.

  We are looking forward to hearing Parliament's views during the debate today and the resolution that you will subsequently adopt.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1565051

• Les nouveaux médias comme l'Internet offrent à chacun la possibilité de faire connaître et de communiquer ses idées au monde entier, ce qui limite le monopole de la presse.

  New media like the Internet offer everyone the opportunity to air and disseminate their views worldwide and that restricts the press monopoly.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1766331

interested

Used about 1 288 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 287). Meaning: interested in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il espérait du reste que de cette violente rencontre de Jondrette et de M. Leblanc quelque lumière jaillirait sur tout ce qu'il avait intérêt à connaître.

  Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was interested in learning.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17182

• Les délégations intéressées ont été invitées à se faire connaître auprès du représentant de la Norvège et à confirmer leur participation le plus tôt possible.

  Interested delegations were invited to contact the representative of Norway and to confirm their participation as soon as possible.

  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 17333418

More sentences

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

• Mon rêve, ce serait de connaître un jour le Japon.

  My dream is to go to Japan someday.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anthaus and catakaoe · checked, community translation · #572465 #2657230

• Il est le seul à connaître la vérité.

  He's the only one who knows the truth.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #4430287 #8486364

• Je voulais connaître ton avis.

  I wanted to get your opinion.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and Lebensfreude · checked, community translation · #9105823 #8725535

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