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# devoted — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: devoted (25 946). By style: everyday 38 · literary 6 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 1 169 · legal and administrative 393 · UN documents 24 320.

## consacré

Used about 12 488 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 609 · legal and administrative ≈ 213 · UN documents ≈ 11 653). Forms: consacré, consacrée, consacrées.

- She **devoted** her life to music.
  Elle a **consacré** sa vie à la musique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#312740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/312740) [\#11908717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11908717))

- but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a **devoted** field. It shall be owned by the priests.
  Et quand l’acquéreur en sortira au jubilé, ce champ sera **consacré** à l’Éternel, comme un champ qui a été dévoué; il deviendra la propriété du sacrificateur.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 27:21)

- That was Exercise Atlantic Storm, which was **devoted** to bioterrorism.
  Il s’agissait de l’, **consacré** au bioterrorisme.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 685518)

- hours **devoted** to study in the establishment.
  les heures **consacrées** à l’étude dans l’établissement
  ([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 556207)

- Part VIII of the Bill is **devoted** to trafficking and abduction of children.
  La partie VIII du projet de loi est **consacrée** à la traite et à l &apos; enlèvement d &apos; enfants.
  ([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 22396584)

## More sentences

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

- She **devoted** herself to him.
  Elle se voua à lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887067) [\#1339607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339607))

- Her father **devoted** his life to science.
  Son père a dévoué sa vie à la science.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and bogantsev · checked, community translation · [\#309704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/309704) [\#133824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/133824))

- She **devoted** herself to him.
  Elle se dévoua à lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887067) [\#1339602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339602))

## 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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