entendre — French to English

How French entendre 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: entendre (31 557). By style: everyday 748 · literary 47 · biblical 117 · parliamentary 5 403 · legal and administrative 1 688 · UN documents 23 554.

hear

Used about 15 623 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 639 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 80 · parliamentary ≈ 2 702 · legal and administrative ≈ 879 · UN documents ≈ 11 286). Forms: hear, heard, hearing. Meaning: hear in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'arrive à t'entendre.

  I can hear you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by PERCE_NEIGE and CK · checked, community translation · #2301250 #6000344

• Il ne parut pas m'entendre.

  He seemed not to hear me.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 371

• Que celui qui a des oreilles pour entendre entende.

  He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:15

• Nous devons faire entendre davantage la voix européenne.

  We have to make Europe's voice heard more.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 249204

• En outre, celles qui l’ont demandé ont eu la possibilité de se faire entendre.

  The parties who so requested were also granted the opportunity to be heard.

  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 1650462

now

Used about 941 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 450 · UN documents ≈ 491). Meaning: now in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Elles sont agréables à entendre, mais l'heure est venue de passer à l'action !

  They are nice to listen to, but it is action that is now required.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 422561

• Nous allons maintenant entendre le reste des orateurs inscrits sur la liste au titre des explications de vote.

  We will now continue with the list of speakers in explanation of the vote.

  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 21897587

• L'euro constitue une force économique aujourd'hui reconnue. Il doit également être une force politique et faire entendre sa voix à l'extérieur.

  The euro's economic strength is now recognised: it also needs to become a force politically and make its presence felt in the wider world.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 396958

• Après avoir tenté de se faire entendre par le gouvernement bulgare pendant plusieurs années, ils ont à présent décidé de faire appel à la Commission européenne et au Parlement européenne.

  Having tried to appeal to the Bulgarian Government for years on end, now they have decided to approach the European Commission and the European Parliament.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1003975

• Le coût lié à la résolution de la crise financière est impossible à estimer à l'heure actuelle. Certains calculs laissent entendre qu'il s'élèverait à environ 50 000 milliards USD.

  The cost of resolving the financial crisis is impossible to estimate now, but one calculation that has been put forward suggests a figure in the region of USD 50 000 billion.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1218135

president

Used about 113 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 113). Meaning: president in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Madame la Présidente, allez au Pays basque, faites-y entendre notre voix, notre clameur - et espérons que ce ne soit pas en vain - pour que cet assassinat soit le dernier.

  Madam President, go to the Basque Country, speak for us and show that we are crying out - hopefully not in the wilderness - for this to be the final death.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 58073

More sentences

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

• Je pense que vous et moi devrions probablement être capables de nous entendre mieux.

  I think that you and I should probably be able to get along better.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2396126 #2398118

• Je pense qu'il peut s'entendre avec ses voisins.

  I think he can get along with his neighbors.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and CS · checked, community translation · #304778 #1180144

• À vous entendre, vous n'êtes pas très sûr.

  You don't sound too sure.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2283684 #2286696

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