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# expected — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: expected (131 761). By style: everyday 286 · literary 8 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 3 438 · legal and administrative 14 005 · UN documents 114 022.

## devrait

Used about 42 647 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 501 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 751 · UN documents ≈ 40 383).

- Everyone is **expected** to abide by the company's established rules.
  Tout le monde **devrait** se conformer aux règles établies de la société.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DostKaplan and fleur74 · checked, community translation · [\#3556755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3556755) [\#3556766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3556766))

- Commissioner Busquin is **expected** to confirm this later.
  Le commissaire Busquin **devrait** nous le confirmer tout à l'heure.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 320974)

- It is **expected** that up to 50 participants will attend this seminar.
  Il **devrait** accueillir jusqu’à cinquante participants.
  ([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 1987344)

- The report is **expected** to be finalized shortly.
  Le rapport **devrait** être prêt sous peu.
  ([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 12530448)

- The new model is **expected** to be put on the market early next year.
  Le nouveau modèle **devrait** être commercialisé au début de l'année prochaine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#269279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/269279) [\#1182333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1182333))

## More sentences

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

- "Iberism" is the new costume of the most expansionist Spanish nationalism. New Guernicas are to be **expected**...
  L'« ibérisme » est le nouveau costume du nationalisme espagnol le plus expansionniste. De nouveaux Guernicas en perspective...
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1254691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1254691) [\#1254689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1254689))

- Most Germans **expected** the Allies would attack at Calais, in France.
  La plupart des Allemands s'attendaient à ce que les Alliés attaquent à Calais, en France.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#804122](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804122) [\#910556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/910556))

- It was quite different from what he'd **expected**.
  C'était tout à fait différent de ce à quoi il s'attendait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9480002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9480002) [\#12181724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12181724))

## 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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