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# commended — English to French

How English *commended* 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: commended (20 709). By style: everyday 3 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 192 · legal and administrative 11 · UN documents 20 495.

## félicité

Used about 8 985 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 16 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 8 967). Forms: félicite, félicité.

- All of that is to be **commended**.
  Qu'il soit **félicité** pour tout cela.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 421674)

- The Council also **commended** the sequenced initiatives of some Member States to provide protection to WFP vessels.
  Le Conseil s’est **félicité** également de la série d’initiatives prises par certains États membres de l’UE en vue d’offrir une protection aux navires du PAM.
  ([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 1428503)

- The Commission **commended** the Working Group for the progress achieved so far.
  Elle a **félicité** celui-ci pour les progrès accomplis jusque-là.
  ([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 12988476)

- The Serbian Government should be **commended** for the actions which have been taken to get to this stage.
  Le gouvernement serbe devrait être **félicité** pour les actions qu'il a entreprises pour arriver à ce stade.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1468759)

- The Council also **commended** the sequenced initiatives of some EU Member States to provide protection to World Food Programme vessels.
  Le Conseil s’est **félicité** également de la série d’initiatives prises par certains États membres de l’Union européenne en vue d’offrir une protection aux navires du Programme alimentaire mondial.
  ([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 1428181)

## salué

Used about 3 429 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 8 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 · UN documents ≈ 3 416).

- This is a Portuguese initiative that has already been **commended** by a number of previous speakers.
  D'autres orateurs ont déjà **salué** cette initiative portugaise.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 113982)

- The second International Conference on Somalia, held in Istanbul on 31 May and 1 June 2012, **commended** the Union for its support to AMISOM and to the Somali security institutions.
  Lors de la deuxième conférence internationale sur la Somalie, tenue à Istanbul le 31 mai et le 1er juin 2012, le soutien de l’Union à l’AMISOM et aux institutions de sécurité somaliennes a été **salué**.
  ([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 2772384)

- It also **commended** the efforts to fulfil the rights of persons with disabilities. It made recommendations.
  Elle a aussi **salué** les mesures prises en faveur des droits des personnes handicapées, et a fait des recommandations.
  ([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 24037617)

- Both the press and children’s organisations have together **commended** us on what we have achieved.
  Tant la presse que les organisations chargées des questions d’enfance ont **salué** notre réalisation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 507457)

- On 7 November 2005, the Council **commended** the work of EUJUST LEX and noted the Iraqi Transitional Government's request to extend the mission beyond the end of its current mandate and to expand the scope of the training provided.
  Le 7 novembre 2005, le Conseil a **salué** les travaux d'EUJUST LEX et a noté la demande du gouvernement de transition iraquien visant à prolonger cette mission au-delà du terme de son mandat actuel et à élargir la formation à d'autres domaines.
  ([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 877199)

## More sentences

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

- I **commended** him according to his merits.
  Je l'ai loué selon ses mérites.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11076221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11076221) [\#11076244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11076244))

- The returning soldiers were **commended** for their bravery in battle.
  Les soldats qui sont revenus ont été loués pour leur bravoure au combat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#541758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/541758) [\#2142853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2142853))

- However faultlessly these tasks were achieved, she never **commended**: it was a maxim with her that praise is inconsistent with a teacher's dignity, and that blame, in more or less unqualified measure, is indispensable to it.
  Quelque parfaits que fussent ces exercices, jamais il ne lui échappait un mot d’éloge : c’était une de ses maximes, que la louange est incompatible avec la dignité du maître, et que le blâme, à tort ou à raison, est indispensable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · [\#8110128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8110128) [\#8111117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8111117))

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