savoir — French to English

How French savoir is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: savoir (247 071), savoirs (4 622). By style: everyday 1 438 · literary 57 · biblical 66 · parliamentary 29 031 · legal and administrative 17 887 · UN documents 203 214.

knowledge

Used about 111 925 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 9 808 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 944 · UN documents ≈ 93 140). Meaning: knowledge in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Avec le savoir, croît le doute.

  With knowledge, doubt grows.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · #6852940 #1261559

• Le sage répond-il par un vain savoir? Se gonfle-t-il la poitrine du vent d’orient?

  “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 15:2

• Nous devons en savoir plus sur les projets.

  Knowledge about the projects is what is needed.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 486901

• les aidant à acquérir les savoir-faire, les savoirs et les compétences,

  helping them to acquire skills, knowledge and competences,

  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 4125039

• Environnement et savoirs traditionnels

  Environment and traditional knowledge

  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 17212318

know

Used about 31 663 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 959 · literary ≈ 29 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 3 138 · UN documents ≈ 27 519). Meaning: know in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Comment peux-tu savoir cela ?

  How can you know that?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1885946 #2069575

• Je veux tout savoir.

  I wish to know all.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5584

• Veux-tu savoir, ô homme vain, que la foi sans les œuvres est inutile?

  But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 2:20

• La main droite doit savoir ce que fait la main gauche.

  The right hand needs to know what the left hand is doing.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 775398

• Telles sont les finalités principales du droit de savoir en tant que droit collectif.

  These, then, are the main objectives of the right to know as a collective right.

  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 4050442

whether

Used about 17 385 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 3 531 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 118 · UN documents ≈ 12 701).

• Tom n'aime pas Mary. Cependant, elle ne se soucie pas particulièrement de savoir si il l'aime ou non.

  Tom doesn't like Mary. However, she doesn't particularly care whether he likes her or not.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3280102 #5359159

• Isaac dit à Jacob: Approche donc, et que je te touche, mon fils, pour savoir si tu es mon fils Ésaü, ou non.

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 27:21

• J'aimerais savoir si le Conseil a quelques informations sur leur contenu.

  It would be interesting to hear whether the Council has any information on what has been happening on that front.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1984315

• Il s’agit notamment de savoir s’ils sont empêchés, par la loi, de coopérer.

  This includes the question whether they are prevented by law from cooperating.

  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 4802862

• L ' Agence se prononce sur la question de savoir si la station/la chaîne a respecté les codes applicables;

  The Communications Regulatory Agency will decide whether or not the station complied with the codes.

  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 22527947

skills

Used about 5 205 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 785 · legal and administrative ≈ 186 · UN documents ≈ 4 234).

• par écrit. - J'ai voté pour ce rapport et je tiens à rappeler l'importance des savoirs de base que doit acquérir tout Européen.

  I voted in favour of this report and would like to recall the importance of the basic skills that every European must acquire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1387095

• préserver le savoir-faire maritime dans la Communauté et y développer les compétences maritimes.

  maintaining maritime know-how in the Community and improving maritime skills.

  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 1126076

• - l ' appui à la promotion des savoirs locaux et des technologies adaptées ;

  Supporting the promotion of local skills and appropriate technology;

  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 17179896

• Ces principes, de même que la demande formulée par le rapport de M. Grosch, d'une définition claire du temps de travail dans le secteur des transports routiers comprenant toutes les périodes au cours desquelles le travailleur est à la disposition de son employeur, ces principes même, de même que l'affirmation du rôle des services publics, sont de nature à contribuer à une conception progressiste de la construction européenne, qui doit utiliser les progrès techniques et les savoirs pour faire oeuvre de civilisation, en s'appuyant sur les acquis des uns et des autres, et non pour progresser ensemble en opposant la diversité existante pour aboutir à un alignement vers le bas.

  These principles, together with the demand made in Mr Grosch's report for a clear definition of working time in the road transport sector, which should include all the time when a worker is at his employer's disposal, and the confirmation of the role to be played by the public services, should help to promote a progressive approach to the construction of Europe with technical progress and know-how being used to ensure the advance of civilisation. This involves using everyone's skills but without opposing existing diversity, which would bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1960397

• Cette tendance se perpétuant, 508 millions (66 %) des 793 millions d ' adultes n ' ayant pas acquis les savoirs de base sont de sexe féminin.

  As a result of these trends over time, of the reported 793 million adults lacking basic literacy skills, 508 million (66 per cent) are female.

  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 27133391

how

Used about 4 296 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · biblical ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 4 234). Meaning: how in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Comment aurais-je pu savoir ?

  How could I have known?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #4666831 #11662444

• Et chaque jour Mardochée allait et venait devant la cour de la maison des femmes, pour savoir comment se portait Esther et comment on la traitait.

  Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 2:11

• ii) De la documentation de pratiques optimales et du < < savoir-faire > > ;

  (ii) best practice and " how to " documentation;

  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 15763236

• Savoir comment conjuguer les verbes est une nécessité absolue.

  Knowing how to conjugate verbs is an absolute necessity.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and AmarMecheri · checked, community translation · #7062758 #10673562

• savoir que le Christ souffrirait, et que, ressuscité le premier d’entre les morts, il annoncerait la lumière au peuple et aux nations.

  how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 26:23

traditional

Used about 2 117 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 117). Meaning: traditional in the Elamur Dictionary.

• En outre, il faut rappeler les politiques de valorisation des savoirs traditionnels présentées par le Ministère de la culture (voir l ' article 7 f)).

  Information is also given on the policies of enhancement of the value of traditional learning being pursued by the Ministry of Culture (see under art. 5, sect. (f)(6).

  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 18784475

More sentences

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

• Je suppose que j'aurais dû savoir que Tom n'allait pas nous aider.

  I guess I should've known Tom wasn't going to help.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · #6678619 #6821748

• Elle prétend ne rien savoir à son sujet.

  She claims that she knows nothing about him.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #887036 #1372864

• Même si tes phrases étaient effectivement vides de sens, au moins tu as la chance de savoir faire de belles phrases.

  Even if your sentences were actually senseless, you at least have the luck to be able to form beautiful sentences.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ANH_DAO and pyrachi · checked, community translation · #2006 #3812

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