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# covered — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: covered (109 619), covereds (1). By style: everyday 199 · literary 32 · biblical 82 · parliamentary 3 612 · legal and administrative 38 003 · UN documents 67 692.

## couvert

Used about 23 610 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 124 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 1 505 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 501 · UN documents ≈ 12 433). Forms: couvert, couverte, couvertes, couverts.

- He was **covered** with bruises.
  Il était **couvert** de bleus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#300768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300768) [\#1184625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1184625))

- He was **covered** with blood.
  Il était **couvert** de sang.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13217)

- He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has **covered** me with ashes.
  Il a brisé mes dents avec des cailloux, Il m’a **couvert** de cendre.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:16)

- This subject is **covered** most unsatisfactorily by Article 235.
  Ce sujet est **couvert** par l'article 235 de façon extraordinairement insatisfaisante.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1707833)

- Number of regions **covered** by operations
  Nombre de régions **couvertes** par des opérations
  ([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 5402555)

## More sentences

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

- His hair almost **covered** his whole face.
  Ses cheveux recouvraient son visage, presque en totalité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by User66640 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4195542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4195542) [\#4218222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4218222))

- The mirror is **covered** with a white tissue.
  Le miroir est recouvert d'un tissu blanc.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7920411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7920411) [\#8420887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8420887))

- You should've **covered** your tracks.
  Tu aurais dû brouiller les pistes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#12282842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12282842) [\#14049787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14049787))

## 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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