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# complete — English to French

How English *complete* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: complete (87 465), completes (1 106). By style: everyday 151 · literary 24 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 5 544 · legal and administrative 13 091 · UN documents 69 749.

## complète

Used about 19 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 502 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 364 · UN documents ≈ 13 804). Forms: complet, complète.

- Is the sentence **complete**?
  La phrase est-elle **complète** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#11459111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11459111) [\#11459112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11459112))

- As for Cosette’s education, it was almost finished and **complete**.
  Quant à l'éducation de Cosette, elle était à peu près terminée et **complète**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19175)

- A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should **complete** their course.
  Une robe blanche fut donnée à chacun d’eux; et il leur fut dit de se tenir en repos quelque temps encore, jusqu’à ce que fût **complet** le nombre de leurs compagnons de service et de leurs frères qui devaient être mis à mort comme eux.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 6:11)

- Having said that, this regulation **completes** the list.
  Cela étant dit, ce règlement **complète** la liste.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1490990)

- **Complete** type approval mark
  Marque d’homologation **complète**
  ([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 5548687)

## More sentences

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

- That isn't the **complete** story.
  Ce n'est pas toute l'histoire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#11543035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11543035) [\#11561681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11561681))

- It was **complete** mayhem.
  C'était la pagaille totale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5747431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5747431) [\#10738501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10738501))

- He is a **complete** idiot.
  Il est complètement idiot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#1723769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1723769) [\#1720544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1720544))

## 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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