mettre — French to English

How French mettre 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: mettre (418 525). By style: everyday 717 · literary 30 · biblical 93 · parliamentary 30 398 · legal and administrative 21 750 · UN documents 365 537.

implement

Used about 48 220 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 800 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 344 · UN documents ≈ 38 077). Meaning: implement in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il est essentiel de tout mettre en œuvre.

  It is important to implement everything.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1299935

• s'emploient à promouvoir et à mettre en œuvre des régimes de transit régionaux;

  promote and implement regional transit arrangements;

  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 177910

• La législation restera nulle et non avenue si le pays ne dispose pas des institutions nécessaires pour la mettre en œuvre.

  Legislation will remain void without the institutions to implement it.

  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 25320952

• Nous avons également appuyé les efforts visant à mettre en œuvre le projet Galileo.

  We have also supported efforts to implement the Galileo project.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 588082

• Améliorer la législation existante en matière de corruption et la mettre en œuvre.

  Improve the existing legislation on bribery and implement it.

  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 395452

put

Used about 27 437 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 299 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 3 800 · legal and administrative ≈ 453 · UN documents ≈ 22 846). Meaning: put in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Où allez-vous le mettre ?

  Where are you going to put it?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · #1886641 #1995753

• --Madame, reprit-elle, est-ce que je peux la mettre sur une chaise?

  “Madame,” she resumed, “may I put her on a chair?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8827

• mais il faut mettre le vin nouveau dans des outres neuves.

  But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 5:38

• Il est temps de mettre fin à cette absurdité.

  It is time to put an end to this nonsense.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 612775

• Les parties A et B s'excluent; mettre une croix dans la case correspondant à la partie remplie.

  Complete either part A or part B and put a cross in the square corresponding to the part completed.

  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 784440

place

Used about 9 797 times in the texts (literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 267 · legal and administrative ≈ 906 · UN documents ≈ 7 615). Meaning: place in the Elamur Dictionary.

• --Il faut mettre là un matelas.

  “We must place a mattress there.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26054

• Il te retirera aussi de la détresse, Pour te mettre au large, en pleine liberté, Et ta table sera chargée de mets succulents.

  Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 36:16

• Ce texte scandaleux tente, avec une rare hypocrisie, de mettre l'Université sous la tutelle exclusive de Bruxelles.

  This scandalous text is attempting, with rare hypocrisy, to place universities under the exclusive tutelage of Brussels.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 360656

• Ôter le couvercle et le mettre pendant 2 heures, avec la cuvette, dans l’étuve (4.2) réglée à 102 ±2 °C.

  Uncover the dish and place it with its lid in the oven (4.2), set at 102 ± 2 °C, for 2 h.

  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 1508173

• Le cas échéant, il conviendrait de mettre en oeuvre des stratégies de réforme pluridimensionnelles tendant à assurer une solide assise financière aux régimes de retraite.

  Where appropriate, multifaceted reform strategies should be implemented in order to place pension systems on a sound financial footing.

  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 8859141

More sentences

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

• Ils furent incapables de se mettre d'accord sur quoi que ce soit.

  They weren't able to agree on anything.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MarieAnne and CH · checked, community translation · #5958192 #5959697

• Bien sûr, grand-mère ; allons te mettre au lit.

  Sure, Grandma; let's get you to bed.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · #12075648 #12147848

• Veuillez mettre ceci sur mon compte.

  Please charge this to my account.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fucongcong and CK · checked, community translation · #56347 #11491

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