devoir — French to English

How French devoir 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: devoir (30 312), devoirs (13 651). By style: everyday 778 · literary 28 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 7 383 · legal and administrative 1 625 · UN documents 34 145.

duties

Used about 16 947 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 769 · legal and administrative ≈ 592 · UN documents ≈ 14 583).

• De là vient que, si l'insurrection, dans des cas donnés, peut être, comme a dit Lafayette, le plus saint des devoirs, l'émeute peut être le plus fatal des attentats.

  Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most fatal of crimes.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22896

• On ne peut pas en revendiquer les droits sans en assumer les devoirs.

  You cannot claim the rights without assuming the duties in it.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1679007

• Principaux devoirs des députés

  Main duties of Members

  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 4880665

• Sujet de droits et de devoirs.

  Subject of rights and duties.

  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 15258193

• Du reste, si l'on fait abstraction des devoirs publics, qui veulent être remplis les premiers, cette profonde tendresse de Louis-Philippe pour sa famille, la famille la méritait.

  Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his family was deserved by the family.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18159

duty

Used about 11 330 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 138 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 1 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 186 · UN documents ≈ 9 603). Meaning: duty in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je fais mon devoir.

  I'm doing my duty.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · #2549077 #3551178

• J'ai fait ce devoir-là vis-à-vis de Cosette.

  I have fulfilled this duty towards Cosette.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30274

• Quel est le devoir de l'Union européenne?

  What is the duty of the European Union?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1023474

• Devoir de coopérer loyalement

  Duty to cooperate in good faith

  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 3307365

• Elle nous impose un devoir de solidarité.

  It imposes on us the duty of solidarity.

  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 4600538

homework

Used about 1 375 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 413 · parliamentary ≈ 538 · legal and administrative ≈ 68 · UN documents ≈ 356). Meaning: homework in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai fait mes devoirs.

  I did my homework.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and CK · checked, community translation · #2314845 #1646802

• Il faut donc le dire avec clarté, l'Europe doit remplir les devoirs qui sont les siens.

  In this respect, it has to be clearly stated that Europe must do its homework.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 307524

• Endroit approprié pour étudier ou faire les devoirs

  Suitable place to study or do homework

  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 5152874

• Ces centres seront des lieux de rencontre socioculturels et offriront des services tels qu ' une aide aux devoirs, etc.

  These centres will function as social and cultural gathering points and may offer services such as `homework cafes ' , etc.

  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 22490705

• Où sont tes devoirs ?

  Where is your homework?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ceriz and Zaksocool · checked, community translation · #5158817 #5160127

More sentences

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

• A quelle heure tu vas devoir te coucher ?

  What time will you have to go to bed?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · #69574 #6295431

• Si seulement j'avais étudié plus dur pour le devoir.

  I wish I had studied harder for the test.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · #39456 #546188

• Tom va devoir rester à l'hôpital trois semaines de plus.

  Tom is going to have to stay in the hospital for another three weeks.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · #6876073 #6876134

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