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# accepted — English to French

How English *accepted* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: accepted (64 928). By style: everyday 141 · literary 16 · biblical 24 · parliamentary 5 828 · legal and administrative 8 752 · UN documents 50 167.

## accepté

Used about 43 592 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 521 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 470 · UN documents ≈ 34 490). Forms: accepté, acceptée, acceptées, acceptés.

- I **accepted** the offer.
  J'ai **accepté** l'offre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by summer and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#1640911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1640911) [\#804714](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804714))

- I have **accepted** Father Mestienne’s reversion.
  J'ai **accepté** la survivance du père Mestienne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12086)

- For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully **accepted** the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
  En effet, vous avez eu de la compassion pour les prisonniers, et vous avez **accepté** avec joie l’enlèvement de vos biens, sachant que vous avez des biens meilleurs et qui durent toujours.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 10:34)

- It is never wise to by-pass freely **accepted** rules.
  Il n’est jamais bon de contourner des règles librement **acceptées**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 530339)

- France **accepted** this assessment.
  La France avait **accepté** cette évaluation.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 562871)

## More sentences

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

- Thomas **accepted** without question.
  Thomas accepta sans se poser de question.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#6692577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6692577) [\#6534887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6534887))

- More students apply to the university than can be **accepted**.
  Davantage d'étudiants se portent candidats à l'université qu'il ne peut en être admis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#519434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/519434) [\#545416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545416))

- He lost the respect of his people when he **accepted** the money.
  Il perdit le respect de son peuple lorsqu'il accepta l'argent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#295471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295471) [\#492404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/492404))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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