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# given — English to French

How English *given* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: given (300 975), givens (8). By style: everyday 358 · literary 52 · biblical 452 · parliamentary 28 599 · legal and administrative 39 045 · UN documents 232 477.

## être

Used about 50 896 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 4 004 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 134 · UN documents ≈ 38 746).

- Hence it results that if insurrection in **given** cases may be, as Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most fatal of crimes.
  De là vient que, si l'insurrection, dans des cas donnés, peut **être**, comme a dit Lafayette, le plus saint des devoirs, l'émeute peut être le plus fatal des attentats.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22896)

- But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been **given** to David, she was **given** to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
  Lorsque arriva le temps où Mérab, fille de Saül, devait **être** donnée à David, elle fut donnée pour femme à Adriel, de Mehola.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 18:19)

- We would hope that undertaking would be **given**.
  Nous osons espérer qu'une promesse pourra **être** faite dans ce sens.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1635276)

- The following particulars must be **given** in the order shown:
  Les données ci-après doivent **être** fournies dans l’ordre:
  ([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 3760571)

- The certificate must take the form **given** in paragraph 9.1.2.2.6.
  Le certificat doit **être** conforme au paragraphe 9.1.2.2.6.
  ([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 7560870)

## donné

Used about 14 020 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 97 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 141 · parliamentary ≈ 4 576 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 881 · UN documents ≈ 4 305).

- You've **given** me your cold.
  Tu m'as **donné** ton rhume.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#2468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2468) [\#417424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/417424))

- “You have not **given** me anything.”
  --Vous ne m'avez rien **donné**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5573)

- Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and **given** them to me.
  Dieu a pris à votre père son troupeau, et me l’a **donné**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 31:9)

- **Given** this situation, a macroeconomic dialogue at European level is largely up in the air.
  Étant **donné** cette situation de fait, un dialogue macro-économique au niveau européen repose quelque peu dans le vide.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2026594)

- The percentage of each peak is **given** by
  Le pourcentage de chaque pic est **donné** par la formule
  ([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 3085829)

## More sentences

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

- The referee has **given** a penalty.
  L'arbitre a sifflé un penalty.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11818428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11818428) [\#10659984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10659984))

- Rights are not **given**, they are fought for.
  Les droits ne sont pas donnés, ils se conquièrent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by adamtrousers and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3530920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3530920) [\#3530924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3530924))

- Sami was **given** a new uniform.
  Sami a reçu un nouvel uniforme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#6376085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6376085) [\#6376091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6376091))

## Grammar

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