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# described — English to French

How English *described* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: described (87 853). By style: everyday 57 · literary 5 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 2 623 · legal and administrative 21 277 · UN documents 63 889.

## décrit

Used about 53 914 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 093 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 514 · UN documents ≈ 37 269). Forms: décrit, décrite, décrites, décrits.

- Adriano **described** that man.
  Adriano a **décrit** l'homme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11724993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11724993) [\#11725194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11725194))

- At that moment, the tapestry of the dressing-room, which we have **described** above, was raised, and afforded passage to a personage, the mere sight of whom suddenly stopped the crowd, and changed its wrath into curiosity as by enchantment.
  En cet instant, la tapisserie du vestiaire que nous avons **décrit** plus haut se souleva, et donna passage à un personnage dont la seule vue arrêta subitement la foule, et changea comme par enchantement sa colère en curiosité.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 234)

- It is **described** as bureaucratic.
  Cette directive est **décrite** comme étant bureaucratique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 90685)

- the technical documentation as **described** in Article 18.
  la documentation technique **décrite** à l’article 18.
  ([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 3202278)

- These are **described** in section IV above.
  Celles-ci sont **décrites** dans la section IV plus haut.
  ([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 28516750)

## paragraphe

Used about 6 211 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 887 · UN documents ≈ 5 324).

- they are made from meats **described** in Article 2(4)(b) and (6), or
  ils ont été préparés avec des viandes visées à l'article 2, **paragraphe** 4, point b) et au paragraphe 6, ou
  ([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 1161197)

- The mixture of gases **described** in paragraph 2.4.2. passes through the converter into the detector.
  Le mélange de gaz défini au **paragraphe** 2.4.2 traverse le convertisseur puis passe dans le détecteur.
  ([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 28151710)

- The measuring points are **described** in Part II of the Protocol presented to the Commission by the Netherlands in accordance with Article 23(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1249/2008.
  La description des points de mesure figure dans la deuxième partie du protocole présenté à la Commission par les Pays-Bas conformément à l’article 23, **paragraphe** 4, du règlement (CE) no 1249/2008.
  ([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 2256745)

- However, the main difficulties encountered (other than those **described** in para. 104(h) above) are:
  Mais les principales difficultés rencontrées (outre celles mentionnées au **paragraphe** 104 h), supra) sont:
  ([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 22505220)

- &quot; 7.4.1.3.1. The strap shall be conditioned as **described** under paragraph 7.4.1.1. &quot;
  &quot; 7.4.1.3.1 La sangle doit être conditionnée conformément aux indications du **paragraphe** 7.4.1.1. &quot; .
  ([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 22905759)

## ci

Used about 444 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 443).

- Tom, back ten words, couldn't see very well this one. Mary, who stood closer, **described** it to him.
  Tom, dix mots en arrière, ne voyait pas bien ce mot-**ci**. Mary, qui était plus près, le lui décrivit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1080953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1080953) [\#1080952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1080952))

- However, as **described** in Section C.2.2 above, the government of the PRC did not provide these Circulars.
  Cependant, comme indiqué au point C.2.2 **ci**-dessus, les pouvoirs publics de la RPC n'ont pas fourni ces circulaires.
  ([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 3438923)

## More sentences

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

- The urge to worship something could be **described** as a deification syndrome.
  On pourrait décrire le besoin irrépressible d'adorer quelque chose comme un syndrome de déification.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3447556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3447556) [\#3447558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3447558))

- He **described** exactly what happened.
  Il décrivit exactement ce qui s'était produit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#294234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294234) [\#1364736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1364736))

- I **described** the scenes.
  Je décrivais les scènes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dkl9 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#13931445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13931445) [\#2211429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2211429))

## Grammar

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