fallait — French to English

How French fallait 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: fallait (44 119). By style: everyday 141 · literary 47 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 1 759 · legal and administrative 222 · UN documents 41 931.

needed

Used about 15 248 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 330 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 · UN documents ≈ 14 851). Forms: need, needed.

• Il nous fallait une victoire.

  We needed a win.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lovasoa and CK · checked, community translation · #4501163 #4749742

• La route devenait de plus en plus difficile; le sol montait; les éclats de roches s'ébranlaient, et il fallait la plus scrupuleuse attention pour éviter des chutes dangereuses.

  The way was growing more and more arduous, the ascent steeper and steeper; the loose fragments of rock trembled beneath us, and the utmost care was needed to avoid dangerous falls.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1304

• Comme il fallait qu’il passât par la Samarie,

  He needed to pass through Samaria.

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

• Rien n'est plus faux : Sharon a clairement dit qu'il fallait relier la colonie de Kiriat Arba au Tombeau des Patriarches.

  Ariel Sharon has clearly said that there is a need to build a link between the settlement of Qiriat Arba and the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 405966

• Il fallait un minimum de 41 travailleurs pour faire fonctionner l’usine.

  A minimum of 41 employees were needed to operate the factory.

  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 5632615

More sentences

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

• Il fallait que je vois ça de mes propres yeux.

  I just had to see this for myself.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2362234 #2368277

• Il lui dit qu'il arrivait de Paris pour affaire de vie et de mort et qu'il fallait qu'il parlât à son maître à l'instant même.

  He told him that he had come from Paris on a matter of life and death, and that he was to speak with his master at once.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13139410 #13139393

• Je sais que j'ai fait ce qu'il fallait faire.

  I know I did the right thing.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · #3330117 #6286148

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