former — French to English

How French former 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: formaient (440), formait (183), forme (191 111), forment (5 915), former (32 251), formes (163 877), formez (21), formons (452), formé (14 311), formée (3 088), formées (3 419), formés (14 348). By style: everyday 449 · literary 73 · biblical 139 · parliamentary 17 252 · legal and administrative 61 270 · UN documents 350 233.

form

Used about 104 015 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 59 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 5 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 044 · UN documents ≈ 77 538). Forms: form, formed, forms. Meaning: form in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les os forment un squelette.

  The bones form a skeleton.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pyrimadine and joshodude_1308 · checked, community translation · #5354665 #8344539

• Il approcha, cela prit une forme.

  He approached, it took on a form.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24318

• Car Adam a été formé le premier, Eve ensuite;

  For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 2:13

• Comment la Commission sera-t-elle formée?

  How will the Commission be formed?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 932779

• Silicones sous formes primaires

  Silicones in primary forms

  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 4061853

trained

Used about 65 573 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 2 930 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 440 · UN documents ≈ 57 167).

• Tom n'est pas formé.

  Tom isn't trained.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2237029 #5706267

• Les personnels de santé doivent être correctement formés.

  Health workers need to be properly trained.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 803882

• est formée à faire rouler l’aéronef au sol;

  is trained to taxi the aircraft;

  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 2708401

• Nombre d ' enseignants formés

  No. of teachers trained

  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 13589846

• C'est toi qui m'as formé.

  You're the one who trained me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2402273 #2402379

More sentences

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

• Les cadres supérieurs passent beaucoup de temps à former leurs subordonnés.

  Senior executives spend a lot of time training their subordinates.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zimbadoo and CM · checked, community translation · #268298 #1122905

• Un fleuve sortait d’Eden pour arroser le jardin, et là il se divisait pour former quatre bras.

  A river flowed through Eden to water the garden, and there it split into four.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zmoo and Jenn · checked, community translation · #3867539 #4014

• Le langage humain est capable de former un nombre infini de phrases.

  Human language is capable of forming an infinite number of sentences.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #5288642 #5290921

Grammar

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