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# claimed — English to French

How English *claimed* 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: claimed (29 909). By style: everyday 47 · literary 3 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 900 · legal and administrative 8 946 · UN documents 20 011.

## affirmé

Used about 4 059 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 56 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 491 · UN documents ≈ 2 501).

- I never **claimed** that.
  Je n'ai jamais **affirmé** ça.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12489381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12489381) [\#13193974](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13193974))

- He also **claimed** that I leave Strasbourg early.
  Il a aussi **affirmé** que je quittais Strasbourg trop tôt.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 597561)

- The GOC **claimed** that it was unable to intervene with State-owned banks to arrange such meetings.
  Le GRPC a **affirmé** qu'il n'était pas en mesure d'intervenir dans les affaires des banques détenues par l'État pour organiser de telles réunions.
  ([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 2376011)

- A witness, himself a victim of torture, **claimed** to have seen Thamir Al Sharee on 3 May.
  Un témoin qui a lui-même été torturé a **affirmé** avoir vu Thamir Al Sharee le 3 mai.
  ([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 24043816)

- I never **claimed** that.
  Je n'ai jamais **affirmé** cela.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12489381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12489381) [\#13193968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13193968))

## prétendu

Used about 636 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 19 · legal and administrative ≈ 186 · UN documents ≈ 417).

- I never **claimed** that.
  Je n'ai jamais **prétendu** cela.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12489381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12489381) [\#13193976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13193976))

- It has also been **claimed** that nets that are 2.5 km in length could not be profitable.
  On a également **prétendu** que les filets de 2, 5 kilomètres ne pouvaient pas être rentables.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1692753)

- Finally, they **claimed** that, should measures be imposed, the Community industry would not have sufficient capacity to supply the user industry.
  Enfin, il ont **prétendu** qu'en cas d'institution de mesures, l'industrie communautaire n'aurait pas les capacités suffisantes pour les approvisionner.
  ([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 718059)

- He recalled that the Government of the United States had falsified the facts when it had **claimed** that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
  Il rappelle que le Gouvernement des ÉtatsUnis avait falsifié les faits lorsqu &apos; il avait **prétendu** qu &apos; il existait des armes de destruction massive en Iraq.
  ([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 19480703)

- I've never **claimed** that.
  Je n'ai jamais **prétendu** cela.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12489380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12489380) [\#13193976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13193976))

## More sentences

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

- Augustus **claimed** his goal was to restore the Roman Republic.
  Auguste affirma que son objectif était de restaurer la République romaine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13049008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13049008) [\#13050587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13050587))

- Goethe **claimed**, "one who cannot speak foreign languages does not know one's own language either".
  Goethe déclara : « Qui ne connaît pas de langues étrangères ne sait rien de la sienne. »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shanghainese and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#987282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/987282) [\#987286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/987286))

- He **claimed** to have astrally projected himself to a remote jungle planet in the Andromeda galaxy.
  Il prétendit s'être projeté de manière astrale vers une planète éloignée, constituée de jungle, dans la galaxie d'Andromède.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1469210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1469210) [\#1469254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1469254))

## Grammar

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