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# effect — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: effect (144 944), effects (124 303). By style: everyday 121 · literary 41 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 17 224 · legal and administrative 46 563 · UN documents 205 292.

## effet

Used about 177 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 97 · literary ≈ 35 · parliamentary ≈ 9 330 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 892 · UN documents ≈ 132 584). Forms: effet, effets.

- The **effect** was immediate.
  L'**effet** fut immédiat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ulyssemc1 and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#619782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/619782) [\#746099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/746099))

- The first **effect** was to dazzle him.
  Le premier **effet** fut l'éblouissement.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13572)

- In this way, we are helping to create the greenhouse **effect**.
  Ce faisant, nous contribuons à l’**effet** de serre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 741285)

- **Effects** of other factors
  **Effets** d'autres facteurs
  ([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 4367252)

- Working Group on **Effects**
  Groupe de travail des **effets**
  ([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 6224536)

## More sentences

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

- We have a saying to the **effect** that a good neighbor is better than a faraway relative.
  Nous avons un dicton qui dit qu'un bon voisin est préférable à un parent éloigné.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#30048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30048) [\#1072184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1072184))

- The plan will be brought into **effect** tomorrow.
  Le plan sera mis en œuvre demain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TheDQN and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#48498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/48498) [\#11172141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11172141))

- I hope to **effect** positive change in the world.
  J'espère effectuer un changement positif dans le monde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#488481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/488481) [\#488484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/488484))

## 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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