essai — French to English

How French essai 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: essai (130 725), essaie (3 199), essaies (66), essais (82 515). By style: everyday 629 · literary 4 · parliamentary 2 053 · legal and administrative 63 077 · UN documents 150 742.

test

Used about 123 287 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 779 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 357 · UN documents ≈ 86 138). Forms: test, testing, tests. Meaning: test in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les pilotes d'essais tentent constamment la chance.

  Test pilots are constantly tempting fate.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · #603589 #817722

• REACH (Projet de règlement établissant des méthodes d'essai) (vote)

  REACH (Draft Test Methods Regulation) (vote)

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• Le rayon du tambour d'essai, R;

  Test drum radius R;

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• c) L ' essai de détalonnage;

  (c) Bead unseating test;

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• Il s'est fait passer pour un mannequin d’essai de choc.

  He made a crash test dummy of himself.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and corvard · checked, community translation · #1521105 #6597250

try

Used about 20 445 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 439 · parliamentary ≈ 382 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 190 · UN documents ≈ 17 433). Forms: try, trying. Meaning: try in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je ferai un essai.

  I'll give it a try.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1140115 #488751

• Ce gouvernement essaie de bâtir un nouvel avenir.

  It is trying to build a new future.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 107053

• Sans préjudice de cette obligation, la BCE essaie de satisfaire les demandes des BCN.

  Without prejudice to this, the ECB shall try to accommodate the NCBs' requests.

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• Elle essaie depuis lors d ' en mettre un en place progressivement.

  Since then it has been gradually trying to establish a central government.

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• J'en ferai l'essai.

  I'll give it a try.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1140115 #1140508

tries

Used about 10 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 113 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 761 · UN documents ≈ 2 051).

• Il essaie d'arrêter de fumer.

  He tries to stop smoking.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and mamat · checked, community translation · #454676 #138972

• Il essaie de donner de l’espoir au peuple égyptien.

  He tries to give Egyptian people hope.

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• Cela est dû au fait que l’industrie communautaire essaie de s’orienter vers des tuyaux de meilleure qualité du fait de la pression sur les prix exercée par les importations de Chine.

  This would be because the Community industry tries to move to higher grade pipes, due to price pressure from Chinese imports.

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• La pandémie du sida représente un défi d ' une intensité inégalée et notre réponse essaie de l ' être aussi.

  The AIDS pandemic represents a challenge of unparalleled intensity, and our response tries to meet that challenge.

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• Vous avez droit à trois essais pour deviner où j'ai été hier !

  You get three tries to guess where I was yesterday.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and bart · checked, community translation · #1185360 #1184566

More sentences

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

• Comment était le montage d’essai ? Qu’est-ce qui était raccordé ?

  What did the experimental set-up look like? What was connected to what and how?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kroko and kroko · checked, community translation · #749416 #749418

• Je n'en suis pas à mon coup d'essai.

  I'm not a newbie at this.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and tieguy · checked, community translation · #11856893 #10328390

• Ma sœur écrit un essai sur l'histoire allemande.

  My sister is writing an essay about German history.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13859022 #13859020

Grammar

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