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# determine — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: determine (68 801), determines (8 210). By style: everyday 41 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 259 · legal and administrative 15 696 · UN documents 59 011.

## détermine

Used about 32 473 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 082 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 464 · UN documents ≈ 20 900). Forms: détermine, déterminer.

- Being **determines** consciousness.
  L'existence **détermine** la conscience.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kerbear407 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1670204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1670204) [\#1020596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1020596))

- The crest of this ridge which **determines** the division of the waters describes a very capricious line.
  La crête de ce dos d'âne qui **détermine** la division des eaux dessine une ligne très capricieuse.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27667)

- The extent of our responsibility **determines** our strategy.
  L'étendue de notre responsabilité **détermine** notre stratégie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2032744)

- Of which: proxy was used to **determine** credit spread
  Dont: une approximation est utilisée pour **déterminer** l’écart de crédit
  ([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 4048928)

- **Determine** the average torque from these six measurements for the reference speed.
  **Déterminer** le couple moyen à partir de ces six mesures pour la vitesse de référence.
  ([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 28152139)

## More sentences

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

- The health and strength of the heart **determine** the amount of physical effort that can be made.
  La santé et la force du cœur déterminent la quantité d'effort physique qu'on peut faire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marioo and marioo · checked, community translation · [\#10303409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10303409) [\#10303408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10303408))

- War does not **determine** who is right — only who is left.
  La guerre ne décide pas qui a raison - seulement qui est vivant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#411820](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411820) [\#411828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411828))

- Three points that are not on the same line **determine** a unique plane.
  Trois points non-alignés forment un plan unique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8062913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8062913) [\#8533015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8533015))

## 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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