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# establish — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: establish (166 744), establishes (24 748). By style: everyday 15 · literary 1 · biblical 58 · parliamentary 8 729 · legal and administrative 21 683 · UN documents 161 006.

## établit

Used about 54 649 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 3 092 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 293 · UN documents ≈ 40 252). Forms: établir, établit.

- Iran and Russia will **establish** a joint bank.
  L'Iran et la Russie vont **établir** une banque commune.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#3556552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3556552) [\#6802937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6802937))

- then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may **establish** the second,
  il dit ensuite: Voici, je viens pour faire ta volonté. Il abolit ainsi la première chose pour **établir** la seconde.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 10:9)

- Secondly, it **establishes** two phases.
  Deuxièmement, il **établit** deux phases.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1934121)

- The operator shall **establish** an operations manual.
  L'exploitant **établit** un manuel d'exploitation.
  ([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 4605210)

- The Law **establishes** the following system of education:
  La loi **établit** le système d &apos; éducation suivant:
  ([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 7128041)

## article

Used about 20 212 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 182 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 581 · UN documents ≈ 18 449).

- Article 15 of the Constitutional Treaty **establishes** the principle of sincere cooperation between the Union and Member States.
  L’**article** I-5 du traité constitutionnel définit le principe de coopération loyale entre l’Union et les États membres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 674203)

- Article 2 of Decision 2004/585/EC **establishes** a Regional Advisory Council to cover the North Sea (ICES areas IV and IIIa).
  L'**article** 2 de la décision 2004/585/CE institue un conseil consultatif régional pour la mer du Nord (zones CIEM IV et III a).
  ([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 407195)

- 285. The Constitution under Article 2 **establishes** the Roman Catholic Apostolic as the state religion.
  285. L &apos; **article** 2 de la Constitution fait de la religion catholique apostolique romaine la religion d &apos; État.
  ([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 25939921)

- Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are firmly convinced that Article 191 of the Treaty **establishes** an important principle.
  Madame la Présidente, Mesdames et Messieurs les Députés, nous sommes fermement convaincus que l'**article** 191 du Traité représente un principe essentiel.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 193721)

- Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1342/2003 \[2\] **establishes** the time frames for issuing export licences.
  Le règlement (CE) no 1342/2003 de la Commission \[2\] prévoit, à son **article** 8, des délais de délivrance pour les certificats d'exportation.
  ([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 1797540)

## More sentences

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

- It's time to **establish** the religion of love.
  Il est temps d'instaurer la religion de l'amour.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1539946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1539946) [\#1538849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538849))

- But my covenant I will **establish** with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.
  Pour mon alliance, je la confirmerai sur Isaac, que Sara t’enfantera à pareille époque, l’année prochaine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7853980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7853980) [\#8589756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8589756))

- Let's **establish** some ground rules.
  Posons quelques règles de base.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#954147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954147) [\#957488](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/957488))

## 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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