faveur — French to English

How French faveur 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: faveur (225 763), faveurs (631). By style: everyday 200 · literary 5 · biblical 76 · parliamentary 25 962 · legal and administrative 17 978 · UN documents 182 173.

favour

Used about 82 787 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 31 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 11 088 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 352 · UN documents ≈ 68 315). Forms: favour, favours. Meaning: favour in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai une faveur à requérir.

  I have a favour to ask.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · #1111576 #1111918

• --Monsieur, répondit résolument Fix, j'allais vous demander cette faveur.

  “Thanks, sir; I was about to ask the favour.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1603

• Je plaide au contraire en faveur d'un processus ouvert.

  I am however in favour of an open process.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 447105

• Le plaignant estime par conséquent que l’aide en faveur de l’ensemble IFP/Axens s’élève à 50 millions EUR par an.

  The complainant accordingly estimates the aid in favour of the IFP/Axens entity at EUR 50 million a year.

  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 1661335

• Demande des faveurs sexuelles à autrui ou

  Requests sexual favours from other persons or

  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 26088723

voted

Used about 815 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 811).

• Il a voté en faveur de la proposition.

  He voted for the proposal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #291176 #4706485

• J'ai voté en faveur de cette résolution.

  I voted for this resolution.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1447947

• Ces quelques remarques faites, je vote en faveur de la résolution.

  For these reasons, I voted for the resolution.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 240436

• Je me réjouis donc - et j'ai donc voté en faveur - de ce rapport parce que le Conseil de Göteborg a pris cette voie.

  I rejoice at this and so I voted for this report because the Gothenburg Council has started out along this path.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 214709

More sentences

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

• Il était en faveur de l'égalité pour tous.

  He was in favor of equality for all.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CM · checked, community translation · #290360 #132817

• Me feras-tu une faveur ?

  Will you do me a favor?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #64695 #1328995

• Je veux juste vous retourner la faveur.

  I just want to make it up to you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2015190 #11064358

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