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# believed — English to French

How English *believed* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: believed (25 332). By style: everyday 149 · literary 11 · biblical 78 · parliamentary 935 · legal and administrative 807 · UN documents 23 352.

## cru

Used about 811 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 234 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 · UN documents ≈ 487).

- I **believed** in myself.
  J'ai **cru** en moi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4496045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496045) [\#7267135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7267135))

- All that he had **believed** in melted away.
  Tout ce qu'il avait **cru** se dissipait.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28659)

- Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees **believed** in him?
  Y a-t-il quelqu’un des chefs ou des pharisiens qui ait **cru** en lui?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 7:48)

- I have never **believed** that.
  Je ne l'ai jamais **cru**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 410266)

- This reaction implies that the market **believed** that, by the announcement, the State was committing itself to offering France Télécom greater support.
  Cette réaction implique que le marché a **cru** que, par cette annonce, l'État s'engageait à offrir un plus grand soutien à FT.
  ([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 4540793)

## frontalière

Used about 319 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 319).

- **Believed** to be in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area.
  Se trouverait dans la région **frontalière** entre l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan.
  ([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 2279756)

- Other information: **Believed** to be in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area.
  Renseignement complémentaire: se trouverait dans la région **frontalière** entre l’Afghanistan et le Pakistan.
  ([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 2412696)

- Other information: **believed** to be in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area.
  Renseignements complémentaires: se trouverait dans la région **frontalière** entre l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan.
  ([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 2433896)

- **Believed** to be in Afghanistan/Pakistan border area, (b) Belongs to Alizai tribe.
  se trouverait dans la région **frontalière** entre l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan; b) membre de la tribu Alizai;
  ([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 3390797)

- Other information: **believed** to be in Afghanistan/Pakistan border area.’
  Renseignement complémentaire: suspecté d'être dans la région **frontalière** entre l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan.»
  ([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 1275801)

## More sentences

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

- Almost no one **believed** him.
  Presque personne ne le crut.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#33336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/33336) [\#3648817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3648817))

- I find the problem easier than I originally **believed** it to be.
  Je trouve le problème plus facile que je ne le croyais au départ.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by paper1n0 and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4736832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4736832) [\#10778358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10778358))

- Dr. Zamenhof **believed** that a language belongs to the people who speak it which is why he never copyrighted Esperanto.
  Le docteur Zamenhof croyait qu'une langue appartient à ceux qui la parlent, raison pour laquelle il n'a jamais déposé de copyright sur l'espéranto.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#550824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/550824) [\#8328213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8328213))

## Grammar

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