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# appears — English to French

How English *appears* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: appears (29 143). By style: everyday 77 · literary 18 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 3 255 · legal and administrative 3 697 · UN documents 22 086.

## semble

Used about 9 068 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · parliamentary ≈ 1 356 · legal and administrative ≈ 770 · UN documents ≈ 6 902).

- The story **appears** true.
  L'histoire **semble** vraie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · [\#2394485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2394485) [\#1573082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1573082))

- It now **appears** that this desire is more serious.
  Il **semble** maintenant que cela devienne plus sérieux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 3709)

- It **appears** to be a subsidiary of MODAFL
  Il **semble** qu'il s'agisse d'une filiale du MODAFL.
  ([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 2023284)

- It **appears** to be the only stochastic somatic effect of radiation.
  Elle **semble** constituer le seul effet somatique stochastique.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 102005)

- Tom **appears** to be nervous.
  Tom **semble** être nerveux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#2544615](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2544615) [\#3414468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3414468))

## apparaît

Used about 4 694 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 610 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 309 · UN documents ≈ 2 761).

- It **appears** to me that you are right.
  Il m'**apparaît** que tu as raison.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#17205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17205) [\#474378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474378))

- Then something **appears** to him, and he begins to distinguish the definitive.
  Alors il lui **apparaît** quelque chose, et il commence à distinguer le définitif.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20246)

- It therefore **appears** as a vote without debate.
  Il **apparaît** d'ailleurs à l'ordre du jour d'aujourd'hui comme vote sans débat.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1741293)

- NB: the test is interrupted when a through crack **appears**.
  NB: L’essai est arrêté lorsqu’une fissure traversante **apparaît**.
  ([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 5505474)

- Most of the PFOS in the technosphere **appears** in the form of derivatives of PFOS.
  La plupart du SPFO présent dans la technosphère **apparaît** sous forme de dérivés de SPFO.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19700237)

## paraît

Used about 832 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 271 · legal and administrative ≈ 77 · UN documents ≈ 460).

- The house **appears** to be empty.
  La maison **paraît** vide.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3636282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3636282) [\#3640256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3640256))

- “It **appears** so, La Bechaigne.”
  --Il **paraît** que oui, la Bechaigne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5657)

- The hay is removed, and the new growth **appears**, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
  Le foin s’enlève, la verdure **paraît**, Et les herbes des montagnes sont recueillies.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 27:25)

- This **appears** to me to be an essential element for the future.
  Cela me **paraît** être un élément essentiel pour l'avenir.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1708749)

- Therefore, the scenario according to which the burden would be distributed evenly **appears** to be more realistic.
  Par conséquent, le scénario selon lequel la charge serait répartie équitablement **paraît** plus réaliste.
  ([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 1234132)

## More sentences

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

- They seem to have everything, but that's only how it **appears**.
  Ils semblent tout avoir, mais ce n'est qu'une apparence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2986698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2986698) [\#8954147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8954147))

- Everything **appears** to be going well.
  Tout a l'air de bien se passer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#51791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51791) [\#3211739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3211739))

- The criticism **appears** very negative, except for "Dumpling."
  La critique se montre très négative, sauf pour « Boule de Suif ».
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by weirdie and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#11557243](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11557243) [\#8937230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8937230))

## 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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