devaient — French to English

How French devaient is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: devaient (50 112). By style: everyday 29 · literary 5 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 1 489 · legal and administrative 2 765 · UN documents 45 798.

must

Used about 8 949 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 186 · legal and administrative ≈ 173 · UN documents ≈ 8 587). Meaning: must in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils savaient qu'ils devaient combattre ensemble pour défaire l'ennemi commun.

  They knew they must fight together to defeat the common enemy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source_VOA · checked, community translation · #802818 #1591855

• De là d'affreux coins insondables où il semblait que devaient se blottir des araignées grosses comme le poing, des cloportes larges comme le pied, et peut-être même on ne sait quels êtres humains monstrueux.

  Hence horrible, unfathomable nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one’s fist, wood-lice as large as one’s foot, and perhaps even—who knows?—some monstrous human beings, must be hiding.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16143

• Tertio, il a été reconnu que ces négociations devaient se fonder sur les frontières de 1967.

  Thirdly, it has been recognised that negotiations must be based on the 1967 borders.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 505226

• Toutefois, les banques ont souligné qu'elles devaient opérer selon des critères commerciaux.

  However, the banks have stressed that they must operate according to commercial criteria.

  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 473602

• Elles ne devaient pas participer à la rédaction du rapport de l ' Etat partie.

  They should not be involved in drafting the State party ' s report; that must remain entirely a government responsibility.

  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 5174111

More sentences

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

• Toutes deux ne devaient jamais plus se rencontrer.

  The two of them were never to meet again.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #61399 #1967494

• Avant l'Internet, les amis et les amoureux devaient s'écrire.

  Before the Internet, friends and lovers had to correspond.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · #1977842 #1978198

• Ils devaient lire le livre de nombreuses fois.

  They had to read the book many times.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #306230 #580153

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