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# indeed — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: indeed (59 253). By style: everyday 52 · literary 27 · biblical 128 · parliamentary 16 825 · legal and administrative 4 998 · UN documents 37 223.

## effet

Used about 16 798 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 6 309 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 707 · UN documents ≈ 7 755).

- **Indeed** God exists.
  En **effet**, Dieu existe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gleki and Lumpawurump · checked, community translation · [\#2093295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2093295) [\#10999662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10999662))

- “Oh! oh!” he murmured at length, “this is serious **indeed**.”
  «Oh! oh! murmura-t-il enfin, ceci est grave, en **effet**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7737)

- An excellent message **indeed**.
  Un excellent message, en **effet**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 463808)

- **Indeed**, that logic is reflected in the design of the UK CFC rules.
  Cette logique transparaît en **effet** dans la conception des règles relatives aux SEC en vigueur au Royaume-Uni.
  ([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 4837725)

- **Indeed**, the people &apos; s support was total.
  Son adhésion a, en **effet**, été totale.
  ([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 10158807)

## effectivement

Used about 4 358 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 402 · legal and administrative ≈ 625 · UN documents ≈ 2 326).

- The child's shout was **indeed** shrill.
  Le cri de l'enfant était **effectivement** strident.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#245866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/245866) [\#3141013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3141013))

- We shall obviously circulate this reply, if it has **indeed** been received.
  Nous ferons évidemment circuler cette réponse, si nous l'avons **effectivement** reçue.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1976970)

- At initiation the Union industry had **indeed** been provisionally defined.
  Au départ, l'industrie de l'Union avait **effectivement** fait l'objet d'une définition provisoire.
  ([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 3043789)

- 32. Ms. Borombaeva (Kyrgyzstan) replied that such exports were **indeed** prohibited.
  32. Mme BOROMBAEVA (Kirghizistan) répond que cela est **effectivement** interdit.
  ([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 22540085)

- **Indeed**, it wouldn't be very easy to please everyone.
  **Effectivement**, ce ne serait pas très facile de contenter tout le monde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13871031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13871031) [\#1148071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1148071))

## More sentences

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

- A friend in need is a friend **indeed**.
  C'est dans le besoin qu'on reconnaît ses amis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and AmarMecheri · checked, community translation · [\#32841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32841) [\#10078491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10078491))

- A friend in need is a friend **indeed**.
  L'ami véritable est l'ami des heures difficiles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#32841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32841) [\#6171038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6171038))

- A friend in need is a friend **indeed**.
  C'est dans l'adversité que se révèlent les vrais amis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and NomadSoul · checked, community translation · [\#32841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32841) [\#970676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/970676))

## 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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