devait — French to English

How French devait 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: devait (75 739). By style: everyday 199 · literary 40 · biblical 65 · parliamentary 3 618 · legal and administrative 4 859 · UN documents 66 958.

must

Used about 8 897 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 101 · UN documents ≈ 8 370). Meaning: must in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom devait s'attendre à quelque chose.

  Tom must've expected something.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and CK · checked, community translation · #12691510 #12692839

• Ce devait être là l'affaire.

  That must be the affair.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16804

• Le jour des pains sans levain, où l’on devait immoler la Pâque, arriva,

  The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:7

• Cela devait être la ligne socialiste.

  That must have been socialist policy.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2006438

• La Commission a fait observer que toute comparaison des parts de marché de l'industrie de l'Union entre la période 1999-2000 et la période 2016-2017 devait tenir compte du contexte général.

  The Commission noted that comparing the market shares of the Union industry in 1999-2000 and 2016-2017 must take into account the broader context.

  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 4724791

More sentences

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

• Tom n'était pas certain de ce qu'il devait faire.

  Tom was unsure what to do.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · #2835737 #5655205

• Il ne devait plus jamais revenir dans sa ville natale.

  He was never to return to his home town.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · #9199618 #1579703

• Je me demande si Tom a oublié de dire à Marie qu'elle devait faire ça.

  I wonder if Tom forgot to tell Mary she needed to do that.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and CK · checked, community translation · #6337060 #11784896

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