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# designated — English to French

How English *designated* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: designated (49 646). By style: everyday 9 · literary 5 · parliamentary 478 · legal and administrative 13 280 · UN documents 35 874.

## désigné

Used about 26 952 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 269 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 237 · UN documents ≈ 16 442). Forms: désigné, désignée, désignées, désignés.

- Tom was the **designated** driver.
  Tom était le conducteur **désigné**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and letsgolanguages · checked, community translation · [\#10119440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10119440) [\#10123045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10123045))

- A single, direct point of contact has been **designated** in each of our Member States.
  Un point de contact unique et direct a été **désigné** dans chacun de nos États.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 920837)

- the authority **designated** by the Member State of registry; or
  l'autorité **désignée** par l'État membre d'immatriculation; 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 2662225)

- Ms. Hey was **designated** as curator for the case.
  Mme Hey a été **désignée** rapporteuse spéciale du dossier.
  ([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 24582441)

- We met at the **designated** spot.
  Nous nous sommes rencontrés à l'endroit **désigné**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#258587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/258587) [\#5600037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5600037))

## More sentences

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

- Fresh-water fish include some **designated** as protected species. You're not allowed to catch or buy them.
  Les poissons d'eau vive incluent certaines espèces identifiées comme étant protégées. On n'a pas le droit de les attraper ou de les acheter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#509499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/509499) [\#1788849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1788849))

- All the seats on this train are **designated** for nonsmokers.
  Tous les sièges de ce train sont non-fumeurs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8088256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8088256) [\#8571129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8571129))

- Churches are **designated** on the map with crosses.
  Les églises sont représentées par une croix sur la carte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Paiooooo · checked, community translation · [\#19081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19081) [\#679059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/679059))

## 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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