veiller — French to English

How French veiller is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: veillaient (98), veillait (264), veille (26 340), veillent (13 671), veiller (137 764), veilles (195), veillez (200), veillons (395), veillé (2 524), veillée (42), veillées (23), veillés (1). By style: everyday 144 · literary 32 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 10 635 · legal and administrative 25 403 · UN documents 145 228.

ensure

Used about 65 274 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 672 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 647 · UN documents ≈ 43 954). Forms: ensure, ensured. Meaning: ensure in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Veillons tous à la préserver.

  Let us ensure that we all protect this.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 276846

• Les États membres veillent à ce que:

  Member States shall ensure that:

  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 1687955

• Veillons à les respecter.

  Let us ensure that they are implemented.

  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 16542381

• Nous devons veiller à l' aspect "value for money".

  We must ensure value for money.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 294913

• La Commission veille à ce que la liste soit à jour.

  The Commission shall ensure that that list is kept up to date.

  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 2046612

More sentences

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

• Vous ne devez pas veiller tard.

  You must not stay up late.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #324026 #4860551

• Je ne faisais que veiller sur toi.

  I was just looking out for you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Akenaseryan and CK · checked, community translation · #3917392 #8088544

• Maman dit que j'ai le droit de veiller jusqu'à dix heures et demie.

  Mom says I'm allowed to stay up until 10:30.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13017262 #13017256

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