retour — French to English

How French retour 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: retour (56 995), retours (5 078). By style: everyday 413 · literary 21 · biblical 54 · parliamentary 3 444 · legal and administrative 5 971 · UN documents 52 170.

return

Used about 48 627 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 188 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 981 · UN documents ≈ 42 388). Forms: return, returns. Meaning: return in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Que veux-tu en retour ?

  What do you want in return?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3378690 #6947535

• Je ne m'appesantirai pas sur les souffrances de notre retour.

  I will not speak of the sufferings we endured in our return.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1788

• Et il s’en alla par un autre chemin, il ne prit pas à son retour le chemin par lequel il était venu à Béthel.

  So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 13:10

• C'est une loi de retours en diminution.

  It is a law of diminishing returns.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1174660

• Le retour à la viabilité

  The return to viability

  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 559845

refugees

Used about 1 630 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 630).

• Aide au retour des réfugiés dans leurs pays d ' origine

  Assistance for returning refugees

  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 8169042

• 29. Restitution des logements et des biens dans le cadre du retour des réfugiés et autres personnes déplacées

  29. Housing and property restitution in the context of refugees and other displaced persons

  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 10587687

• Elle fournira également une assistance aux réfugiés ivoiriens de retour dans le pays, ainsi qu ' à ceux qui pourraient décider de ne pas revenir.

  They will also provide assistance to Ivorian returnees and refugees who may decide not to be repatriated.

  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 17709411

More sentences

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

• Tom sera de retour la semaine prochaine.

  Tom will be back next week.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #5253817 #5311659

• Elle lui sourit en retour.

  She smiled back at her.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by casaniere and sundown · checked, community translation · #9499215 #9499158

• Tout est de retour à la normale.

  Everything's back to normal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3734292 #6847664

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