devenir — French to English

How French devenir 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: devenir (38 549), devenirs (3). By style: everyday 560 · literary 17 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 5 423 · legal and administrative 1 842 · UN documents 30 684.

become

Used about 24 622 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 280 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 3 841 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 228 · UN documents ≈ 19 253). Forms: become, becoming. Meaning: become in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom veut devenir pompier.

  Tom wants to become a fireman.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wittydev and CK · checked, community translation · #1141020 #1146947

• Qu'allait devenir Marius?

  What was to become of Marius?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13923

• As-tu été appelé étant esclave, ne t’en inquiète pas; mais si tu peux devenir libre, profites-en plutôt.

  Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 7:21

• Cela ne doit, toutefois, pas devenir une habitude.

  This must not, however, become the rule.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 537424

• Article 28: Conditions et modalités pour devenir partie au présent Acte

  Article 28: Becoming Party to This Act

  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 315256

More sentences

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

• Je pensais que j'étais en train de devenir fou.

  I thought I was going crazy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1961298 #2159695

• Je veux devenir journaliste sportif.

  I want to be a sport reporter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CM · checked, community translation · #254038 #425084

• Elle a refusé ma demande pour devenir amies.

  She refused my friend request.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1848922 #1853312

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