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# distributed — English to French

How English *distributed* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: distributed (39 226). By style: everyday 18 · literary 4 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 1 357 · legal and administrative 2 538 · UN documents 35 301.

## distribué

Used about 20 908 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 876 · legal and administrative ≈ 899 · UN documents ≈ 19 121). Forms: distribué, distribuée, distribués.

- The teacher **distributed** the leaflets.
  L'enseignant a **distribué** les prospectus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#272889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/272889) [\#10841848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10841848))

- The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the fallen weapons re-**distributed**, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the rubbish swept up, corpses removed.
  On avait fait le ménage de la barricade, désencombré la salle basse, pris la cuisine pour ambulance, achevé le pansement des blessés, recueilli la poudre éparse à terre et sur les tables, fondu des balles, fabriqué des cartouches, épluché de la charpie, **distribué** les armes tombées, nettoyé l'intérieur de la redoute, ramassé les débris, emporté les cadavres.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25469)

- Jehoiada appointed the officers of the LORD’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had **distributed** in the LORD’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
  Jehojada remit les fonctions de la maison de l’Éternel entre les mains des sacrificateurs, des Lévites, que David avait **distribués** dans la maison de l’Éternel pour qu’ils offrissent des holocaustes à l’Éternel, comme il est écrit dans la loi de Moïse, au milieu des réjouissances et des chants, d’après les ordonnances de David.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 23:18)

- A vademecum has been **distributed**.
  Un vade-mecum a été **distribué**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1926339)

- Volume of water **distributed** or produced each day within a supply zone
  Volume d’eau **distribué** ou produit chaque jour à l’intérieur d’une zone de distribution
  ([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 5135568)

## document

Used about 2 206 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 206).

- I should be grateful if you would have the present letter **distributed** as a document of the Security Council.
  Je vous serais obligé de bien vouloir faire distribuer le texte de la présente lettre comme **document** du Conseil de sécurité.
  ([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 26777528)

- I should be grateful if you would arrange for the present letter to be **distributed** as a document of the Security Council.
  Je vous serais obligé de bien vouloir faire distribuer le texte de la présente lettre comme **document** du Conseil de sécurité.
  ([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 17705517)

- My Government would be grateful if you would have this letter and its annexes **distributed** as a document of the Security Council.
  Mon gouvernement vous serait obligé de bien vouloir faire distribuer la présente lettre et ses annexes comme **document** du Conseil de sécurité.
  ([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 9601685)

## verbal

Used about 53 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 53).

- The minutes of the meetings of the Executive Board shall be **distributed** to the College for information.
  Le procès-**verbal** des réunions du conseil exécutif est transmis pour information au collège.
  ([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 5138010)

## More sentences

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

- He has in his possession films that were never **distributed** to cinemas to protect them against piracy.
  Il a des films jamais sortis dans les cinémas pour les protéger du piratage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#724532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/724532) [\#723621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/723621))

- New blankets were **distributed** to the poor.
  De nouvelles couvertures furent distribuées aux pauvres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#269242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/269242) [\#1182286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1182286))

- When the laundry is unevenly **distributed** inside the washing machine, it can cause the washing machine to vibrate or even move.
  Lorsque le linge n'est pas réparti de manière équilibrée dans la machine à laver, cela peut la faire vibrer ou même se déplacer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3269321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3269321) [\#3278761](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3278761))

## 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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