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# approach — English to French

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

What it means: [approach in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/approach/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: approach (210 822), approaches (63 313). By style: everyday 56 · literary 17 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 20 440 · legal and administrative 14 928 · UN documents 238 680.

## approche

Used about 151 348 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 13 627 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 885 · UN documents ≈ 126 799). Forms: approche, approches.

- Don't **approach** the dog.
  N'**approche** pas du chien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#48286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/48286) [\#1649718](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1649718))

- A moment later, the riot **approaches** and gains in force, he shuts up his shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places his merchandise in safety and risks his own person.
  Un moment après, si l'émeute **approche** et gagne, il ferme précipitamment sa boutique et endosse rapidement son uniforme, c'est-à-dire met ses marchandises en sûreté et risque sa personne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23164)

- It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall **approach** and speak to the people,
  A l’**approche** du combat, le sacrificateur s’avancera et parlera au peuple.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 20:2)

- A structural **approach** is necessary.
  Il faut une **approche** structurelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1747817)

- 6.2\* CAT II/III **approaches**:
  6.2\* **Approches** CAT II/III:
  ([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 4748600)

## More sentences

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

- Let's **approach** the problem from a different angle.
  Approchons le problème d'un angle différent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2662680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2662680) [\#6365575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6365575))

- They don't dare **approach** the house.
  Ils n'osent pas s'approcher de la maison.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12843326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12843326) [\#12842623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12842623))

- All things considered, it is probably a better **approach**.
  Tout bien considéré, c’est probablement une meilleure entame.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11140641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11140641) [\#11140644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11140644))

## 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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