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# composed — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: composed (27 717). By style: everyday 35 · literary 21 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 324 · legal and administrative 3 826 · UN documents 23 510.

## composée

Used about 13 159 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 196 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 152 · UN documents ≈ 10 775). Forms: compose, composé, composée.

- This music was **composed** by Bach.
  Cette musique fut **composée** par Bach.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#454475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/454475) [\#453979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453979))

- He was assailed by a broadside, **composed** of a quadruple howl.
  Une bordée l'assaillit, **composée** d'une huée quadruple.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23299)

- It was **composed** of named people.
  Il était **composé** de gens nommés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 487849)

- The list shall be **composed** of three sub-lists:
  Cette liste est **composée** de trois sous-listes:
  ([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 336588)

- At present, the Council is **composed** of the following members:
  Actuellement, le Conseil se **compose** des membres suivants :
  ([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 2323868)

## More sentences

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

- I’ve never seen him so incensed. He’s usually calm and **composed**.
  Je ne l'ai jamais vu aussi furieux. D'habitude, il est calme et posé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12836941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12836941) [\#12836943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12836943))

- Table salt is **composed** of sodium and chlorine atoms.
  Le sel de table est constitué d'atomes de sodium et de chlore.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#3957928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3957928) [\#10361814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10361814))

- Gamma rays are **composed** of very energetic photons.
  Les rayonnements gamma sont composés de photons très énergétiques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tjwhale and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#11021366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11021366) [\#2804631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2804631))

## 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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