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# carry — English to French

How English *carry* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: carries (9 050), carry (87 009). By style: everyday 257 · literary 23 · biblical 111 · parliamentary 6 656 · legal and administrative 17 064 · UN documents 71 948.

## activités

Used about 11 443 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 139 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 311 · UN documents ≈ 8 994).

- But I also very much welcome all the activities that the European Parliament **carries** out, because Parliament provides the basis for an agreement.
  Cependant, je me félicite également sans réserve de toutes les **activités** menées par le Parlement européen, sans lesquelles un accord ne serait pas possible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1199352)

- However, KBM also **carries** out activities of an economic nature, as it
  Le KBM exerce cependant aussi des **activités** économiques:
  ([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 819202)

- It also **carries** out IEC activities with UNICEF support.
  Elle mène aussi des **activités** d &apos; information, éducation et communication avec l &apos; appui de l &apos; UNICEF.
  ([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 26067847)

- Each national standards authority **carries** out a comprehensive and full review of all the activities of a prospective applicant under the EMAS scheme that may affect the environment.
  Chaque autorité nationale de normalisation procède à une analyse détaillée et complète de toutes les **activités** d'un candidat éventuel au système EMAS pouvant affecter l'environnement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 77171)

- **carry** out energy efficiency audits of major operations;
  effectuer des audits de l'efficacité énergétique des principales **activités**;
  ([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 3539084)

## porte

Used about 4 224 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 91 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 208 · legal and administrative ≈ 889 · UN documents ≈ 2 998). Forms: porte, porter.

- I'll **carry** this.
  Je vais **porter** ça.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2549534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549534) [\#10809027](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10809027))

- “Would you like to have me **carry** your coffer for you?”
  --Voulez-vous que je vous **porte** votre coffre?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23502)

- The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to **carry** the table.
  Les anneaux seront près du rebord, et recevront les barres pour **porter** la table.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 25:27)

- Each individual **carries** a degree of responsibility for the future of the whole.
  Chaque personne **porte** une part de responsabilité pour l'avenir de l'ensemble.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 474315)

- It **carries** the serial number 09.4061.
  Il **porte** le numéro d’ordre 09.4061.
  ([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 1626505)

## More sentences

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

- It's one thing to make plans, but quite another to **carry** them out.
  C'est une chose de faire des projets, c'en est une autre de les réaliser.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#238048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238048) [\#8879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8879))

- We **carry** the weight of our dreams.
  Nous portons le poids de nos rêves.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12770757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12770757) [\#13365380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13365380))

- All the countries of Europe **carry** the name of their invaders.
  Tous les pays d'Europe portent le nom d'un de leurs envahisseurs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12421736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12421736) [\#3674723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3674723))

## 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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