observer — French to English

How French observer 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: observaient (95), observait (406), observe (12 221), observent (1 605), observer (66 995), observes (207), observez (71), observons (802), observé (15 957), observée (7 368), observées (6 923), observés (6 693). By style: everyday 137 · literary 26 · biblical 151 · parliamentary 4 652 · legal and administrative 11 193 · UN documents 103 184.

observed

Used about 48 690 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 43 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 945 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 999 · UN documents ≈ 42 670). Forms: observe, observed, observes. Meaning: observed in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'avez-vous observé ?

  Have you observed it?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and DJ_Saidez · checked, community translation · #11160277 #3147107

• «Mais le bateau part à midi! fit observer Passepartout.

  “But the steamer leaves at noon!” observed Passepartout, nervously.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1053

• Vous observez les jours, les mois, les temps et les années!

  You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:10

• Je vous demande d'observer une minute de silence.

  I ask you to observe one minute's silence.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 369845

• L'ÉCONOMIE NON OBSERVÉE

  THE NON-OBSERVED ECONOMY

  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 2943421

there

Used about 8 222 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 504 · legal and administrative ≈ 337 · UN documents ≈ 7 370). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Cet homme là-bas nous observe furtivement depuis un moment, le connais-tu ?

  That man over there has been glancing at us furtively for a while, do you know him?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #924098 #1336179

• Quand il n’y a pas de révélation, le peuple est sans frein; Heureux s’il observe la loi!

  Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 29:18

• Néanmoins, on observe aussi une certaine concordance entre les documents.

  But there is one point of agreement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1598617

• Il est observé que le marché foncier n’est pas libre au Viêt Nam.

  It is noted that there is no free market of land in Vietnam.

  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 676629

• En 1995, sur 108 236 naissances vivantes, on observait 675 cas de décès maternels.

  Out of 108,236 live births in 1995, there were 675 cases of maternal death.

  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 9097647

More sentences

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

• Il est de notre devoir de toujours observer les lois.

  It's our duty to pay attention to the law.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CardinalRed · checked, community translation · #5715629 #937407

• J'aime observer les oiseaux.

  I love bird watching.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #5942267 #1275385

• J'ai toujours aimé observer les mouvements des forces de la nature.

  I have always enjoyed observing the movements of the forces of nature.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MLDC and purple_ice · checked, community translation · #11903344 #4876328

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