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# gave — English to French

How English *gave* 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: gave (31 274), gaves (1). By style: everyday 1 371 · literary 61 · biblical 484 · parliamentary 3 320 · legal and administrative 1 430 · UN documents 24 609.

## donné

Used about 4 633 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 771 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 262 · parliamentary ≈ 830 · legal and administrative ≈ 238 · UN documents ≈ 2 511). Forms: donna, donné.

- He **gave** a speech.
  Il a **donné** un discours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2764262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2764262) [\#7352878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7352878))

- He **gave** the waiter six sous.
  Il **donna** six sous au garçon.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15382)

- Laban **gave** Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
  Et Laban **donna** pour servante à Léa, sa fille, Zilpa, sa servante.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 29:24)

- You even **gave** the name 'écu' to the future European currency.
  Vous avez même **donné** le nom d'écu à la future monnaie européenne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 487632)

- **gave** negative results, and\]
  ont **donné** des résultats négatifs, et\]
  ([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 2095557)

## More sentences

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

- The customers **gave** him fleeting glances, then returned to their conversations.
  Les clients ont jeté de brefs regards sur lui, puis ont repris leurs conversations.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cafe and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1443528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1443528) [\#10580433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10580433))

- I **gave** him no choice.
  Je ne lui ai pas laissé le choix.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3916495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3916495) [\#11188436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11188436))

- Tom **gave** his dog a hug.
  Tom fit un câlin à son chien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6579358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6579358) [\#6580308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6580308))

## 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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