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# became — English to French

How English *became* 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: became (29 155), becames (3). By style: everyday 628 · literary 69 · biblical 262 · parliamentary 1 619 · legal and administrative 1 879 · UN documents 24 701.

## devenu

Used about 9 489 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 392 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 438 · legal and administrative ≈ 900 · UN documents ≈ 7 749). Forms: devenu, devenue.

- Ziri **became** a poet.
  Ziri est **devenu** poète.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10209938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10209938) [\#11764102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11764102))

- The Jondrette’s dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now **became** gloomy.
  L'oeil de la Jondrette, de morne, était **devenu** joyeux, de joyeux il devint sombre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16573)

- Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she **became** my wife.
  De plus, il est vrai qu’elle est ma sœur, fille de mon père; seulement, elle n’est pas fille de ma mère; et elle est **devenue** ma femme.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 20:12)

- When I **became** a Commissioner at the end of 1999, I had to implement this new period.
  Quand je suis **devenu** commissaire européen, fin 1999, j’ai dû mettre en œuvre cette nouvelle période.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 510657)

- FBS thereby **became** the owner of BFG.
  BFG est ainsi **devenue** une filiale de FBS.
  ([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 3476531)

## More sentences

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

- Tom **became** very ill.
  Tom devint très malade.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Thomz · checked, community translation · [\#5757412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5757412) [\#5761571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5761571))

- I **became** aware of someone looking at me.
  Je me suis rendu compte qu'on m'observait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · [\#254991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/254991) [\#352347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/352347))

- Against all expectations, we **became** good friends.
  Contre toute attente, nous devînmes amis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1681199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1681199) [\#1681477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1681477))

## 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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