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# failed — English to French

How English *failed* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: failed (37 692). By style: everyday 217 · literary 13 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 3 849 · legal and administrative 2 852 · UN documents 30 755.

## n

Used about 14 443 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 443 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 426 · UN documents ≈ 11 533).

- Mayuko **failed** to see Meg.
  Mayuko **n**'a pas pu voir Meg.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CP and Selenyt · checked, community translation · [\#32386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32386) [\#15081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15081))

- Marius had not **failed** for a single day.
  Marius **n**'avait point failli un seul jour.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14818)

- Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before **failed** to enter in because of disobedience,
  Or, puisqu’il est encore réservé à quelques-uns d’y entrer, et que ceux à qui d’abord la promesse a été faite **n**’y sont pas entrés à cause de leur désobéissance,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 4:6)

- This policy has **failed**.
  Cette politique **n**'a pas porté ses fruits.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1199414)

- Thus, this Group **failed** also to demonstrate that it fulfilled MET criterion 1.
  Ainsi, ce groupe **n**'a pas non plus prouvé qu'il répondait au premier critère.
  ([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 4625680)

## aucune

Used about 2 804 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 238 · UN documents ≈ 2 563).

- Nothing **failed** of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
  De toutes les bonnes paroles que l’Éternel avait dites à la maison d’Israël, **aucune** ne resta sans effet: toutes s’accomplirent.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 21:45)

- The competent authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo **failed** to provide a reply.
  Les autorités compétentes de la République démocratique du Congo n’ont fourni **aucune** réponse.
  ([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 2366599)

- There were still, however, no sanctions for parents who **failed** to send their children to school.
  Toutefois, **aucune** sanction n &apos; était encore prévue pour les parents qui ne scolarisaient pas leurs 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 29199620)

- “Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not **failed** one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
  Béni soit l’Éternel, qui a donné du repos à son peuple d’Israël, selon toutes ses promesses! De toutes les bonnes paroles qu’il avait prononcées par Moïse, son serviteur, **aucune** n’est restée sans effet.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 8:56)

- The Commission further recalled that the GOC **failed** to provide evidence rebutting the continuation of the relevant programmes.
  La Commission a rappelé par ailleurs que les pouvoirs publics chinois n’avaient apporté **aucune** preuve réfutant la poursuite des programmes concernés.
  ([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 5214206)

## échoué

Used about 2 032 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 149 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 481 · legal and administrative ≈ 119 · UN documents ≈ 1 281).

- I **failed** the tests.
  J'ai **échoué** aux examens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#266190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266190) [\#4684093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4684093))

- Having, through various causes, **failed** in his business, he had descended to the calling of a carter and a laborer.
  Ayant, pour des causes diverses, **échoué** dans ses affaires, de tabellion il était tombé charretier et manoeuvre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11210)

- The Council **failed** in Nice in its bid to become Europe' s constitution-writer.
  À Nice, le Conseil a **échoué** à s'acquitter de cette mission constitutionnelle au profit de l'Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 170399)

- Corrections and **failed** edits breakdown into missing values, errors and anomalies.
  ventilation des corrections et des éditions ayant **échoué** en «valeurs manquantes», «erreurs» et «anomalies».
  ([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 2148263)

- Unfortunately, many countries have relied on a repetition and intensification of **failed** policies to try to climb out of the crisis.
  Mais malheureusement de nombreux pays ont tenté de sortir de la crise en maintenant des politiques qui avaient **échoué** et en les renforçant.
  ([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 26865550)

## More sentences

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

- This semester I **failed** two students for plagiarism.
  Ce semestre, j'ai collé deux de mes étudiants pour plagiat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#587628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/587628) [\#587673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/587673))

- He **failed** to come on time.
  Il ne parvint pas à arriver à l'heure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Snout · checked, community translation · [\#301697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/301697) [\#525322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/525322))

- He **failed** the entrance exam.
  Il rata l'examen d'entrée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#302286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/302286) [\#1461361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1461361))

## 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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