doivent — French to English

How French doivent is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: doivent (504 749). By style: everyday 280 · literary 4 · biblical 32 · parliamentary 42 116 · legal and administrative 87 241 · UN documents 375 076.

must

Used about 113 059 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 128 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 23 690 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 533 · UN documents ≈ 54 699). Meaning: must in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils doivent être heureux.

  They must be happy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by queenie and CK · checked, community translation · #306528 #136380

• --Bah! les hommes doivent donc avoir froid et être mal?

  “Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19317

• Les femmes, de même, doivent être honnêtes, non médisantes, sobres, fidèles en toutes choses.

  Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 3:11

• Ces indications doivent être conservées quoi qu'il arrive.

  Whatever happens, these must be retained.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1364679

• Celles-ci doivent être effectives, proportionnées et dissuasives.

  The penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

  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 2301529

when

Used about 27 964 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 877 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 635 · UN documents ≈ 23 442). Meaning: when in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quand la forêt n'est plus, s'ils le peuvent, les oiseaux et les petits mammifères doivent trouver une nouvelle maison.

  When the forest is gone, birds and small mammals that lived there have to find new homes—if they can.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sorgan and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #5322530 #6206186

• Si c’est un chef qui a péché, en faisant involontairement contre l’un des commandements de l’Éternel, son Dieu, des choses qui ne doivent point se faire et en se rendant ainsi coupable,

  “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 4:22

• Je pense que des règles ne doivent être instaurées qu'en cas d'échec des codes de bonne conduite.

  I think that regulations should be introduced only when the codes of good practice fail.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1556328

• Les fenêtres de type éjectable ne doivent pas se détacher totalement du véhicule lorsqu'elles sont éjectées.

  Ejectable types shall not become totally detached from the vehicle when operated.

  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 5539266

• En cas de rencontre ou de routes qui se croisent, les autres bateaux doivent s ' écarter de la route :

  When meeting or crossing the course of:

  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 19121746

More sentences

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

• Tous les élèves doivent revêtir le même uniforme.

  The pupils all have to wear the same uniform.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · #12287101 #3561978

• Les disputes doivent être évitées: elles sont toujours vulgaires et souvent convaincantes.

  Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by inastar and inastar · checked, community translation · #1786868 #1786880

• Vous savez ce que sont des blessures corporelles sévères ? À quel point les blessures doivent-elles en être pour être comptées comme sévères ?

  You know Grievous Bodily Harm? Just how bad do the injuries have to be before it counts as Grievous?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and blay_paul · checked, community translation · #534043 #539402

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