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# designed — English to French

How English *designed* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: designed (99 855). By style: everyday 38 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 3 641 · legal and administrative 23 446 · UN documents 72 728.

## conçu

Used about 48 955 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 986 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 119 · UN documents ≈ 31 819). Forms: conçu, conçue, conçues, conçus.

- I **designed** it.
  Je l'ai **conçu**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2245677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2245677) [\#4679148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4679148))

- It is surely unprecedented, although **designed** in full respect of the Treaties.
  Il est certainement inédit, bien que **conçu** dans le plein respect des Traités.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1367641)

- the risk against which the PPE is **designed** to protect;
  le risque pour lequel l'EPI a été **conçu** à des fins de protection;
  ([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 3960963)

- (a) Ammunition is **designed** to kill.
  a) Les munitions sont **conçues** pour tuer.
  ([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 18695357)

- I **designed** it.
  Je l'ai **conçue**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2245677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2245677) [\#4679149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4679149))

## spécialement

Used about 1 465 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 465).

- Recording equipment, as follows, and specially **designed** test tape therefor:
  matériels d'enregistrement, comme suit, et leurs bandes étalons **spécialement** conçues:
  ([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 959458)

- Specially **designed** to protect the 愦灭;quot;electronically steerable phased array antennae愦灭;quot; specified in 6A008.e.; and
  **spécialement** conçu pour protéger les 愦灭;quot;antennes à réseaux phasés électroniquement orientables愦灭;quot; visées à l'alinéa 6A008.e.; et
  ([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 1843910)

- f. ‘Libraries’ (parametric technical databases) specially **designed** for military use with equipment specified by the EU Common Military List;
  f. ’bibliothèques’ (bases de données techniques paramétriques) **spécialement** conçues pour l'usage militaire avec du matériel visé par la liste commune d'équipements militaires de l'Union européenne;
  ([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 3226742)

## More sentences

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

- As hard as we try to not be superstitious, there are still annoying coincidences **designed** to wreck havoc in even the most balanced of minds.
  On a beau ne pas être superstitieux, il y a quand même des coïncidences fâcheuses bien faites pour jeter le trouble dans le cerveau le mieux équilibré.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and samir\_t · checked, community translation · [\#11676492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11676492) [\#10076289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10076289))

- Ludwik L. Zamenhof **designed** the Esperanto language for international communication.
  Ludwik L. Zamenhof a créé la langue espéranto pour la communication internationale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12988346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12988346) [\#12985263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12985263))

- Text is a **designed** language.
  Le texte est un langage organisé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Alifono and Alifono · checked, community translation · [\#12964590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12964590) [\#12964587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12964587))

## 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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