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# attempts — English to French

How English *attempts* 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: attempts (20 876). By style: everyday 18 · parliamentary 2 249 · legal and administrative 354 · UN documents 18 255.

## tentatives

Used about 10 521 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 1 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 251 · UN documents ≈ 9 128). Forms: tentative, tentatives.

- All our **attempts** failed.
  Toutes nos **tentatives** ont échoué.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#262592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/262592) [\#4551267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4551267))

- All previous **attempts** have been fruitless.
  Toutes les **tentatives** précédentes ont été vaines.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 905296)

- Protection against security breach **attempts**
  Protection contre les **tentatives** d'atteinte à la sécurité
  ([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 4992319)

- **Attempts** to escape are severely punished.
  31. Les **tentatives** d &apos; évasion sont sévèrement punies.
  ([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 1972687)

- All of his **attempts** failed.
  Toutes ses **tentatives** ont échoué.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jacoblaguerre and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12668787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12668787) [\#12668796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12668796))

## More sentences

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

- Unfortunately, **attempts** to achieve this are very inconsistent and not nearly forceful enough.
  Malheureusement, cela se fait très inégalement et beaucoup trop timidement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 360162)

- It is highly regrettable that **attempts** are being made to balance national budgets by reducing social benefits and programmes for disabled people.
  Il est très regrettable que l'on cherche à équilibrer les budgets nationaux en réduisant les prestations sociales et les programmes en faveur des personnes handicapées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1322741)

- It is precisely this phenomenon, in my view, that the report addresses and **attempts** to solve.
  C'est précisément ce phénomène que, de mon point de vue, le rapport aborde et tente de résoudre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 767200)

## Grammar

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