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# intended — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: intended (109 634), intendeds (1). By style: everyday 66 · literary 10 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 5 397 · legal and administrative 36 241 · UN documents 67 914.

## destinés

Used about 33 591 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 562 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 366 · UN documents ≈ 5 660). Forms: destiné, destinés.

- This book is **intended** for students who do not speak Japanese as a native language.
  Ce livre est **destiné** aux étudiants dont le japonais n'est pas la langue maternelle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeanne and minti · checked, community translation · [\#460309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460309) [\#407579](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407579))

- The angle which it formed with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably **intended** to preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty creatures called the passers-by.
  L'angle qu'elle faisait avec le pignon du grand bâtiment était rempli, dans sa partie inférieure, d'un massif de maçonnerie de forme triangulaire, probablement **destiné** à préserver ce trop commode recoin des stations de ces stercoraires qu'on appelle les passants.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9841)

- They are of course **intended** solely as a basis for negotiation.
  Ces amendements sont bien sûr exclusivement **destinés** aux négociations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1901866)

- Products listed in Annex I to the Treaty, **intended** for human consumption:
  Produits de l'annexe I du traité **destinés** à l'alimentation humaine:
  ([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 2186438)

- Exits of rooms **intended** for use by persons with reduced mobility shall have a clear width of at least 0.90 m.
  vii) Les sorties des locaux **destinés** à une utilisation par des personnes à mobilité réduite doivent avoir une largeur utile d &apos; au moins 0,90 m.
  ([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 14396961)

## intention

Used about 8 641 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 112 · UN documents ≈ 8 489).

- He **intended** to marry her.
  Il avait l'**intention** de l'épouser.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#302621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/302621) [\#835073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/835073))

- After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and **intended** to win them for himself.
  Après ces choses et ces actes de fidélité, parut Sanchérib, roi d’Assyrie, qui pénétra en Juda, et assiégea les villes fortes, dans l’**intention** de s’en emparer.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 32:1)

- It is not **intended** that any new funds will be earmarked for the strategy.
  L'**intention** n'est pas d'affecter de quelconques financements supplémentaires à la stratégie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1280513)

- He asked if the Committee **intended** to evaluate this experience.
  Il a demandé si le Comité avait l &apos; **intention** de procéder à une évaluation de ces résultats.
  ([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 9242724)

- That was exactly what she **intended**.
  C'était exactement son **intention**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#42707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42707) [\#12337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12337))

## More sentences

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

- This book is **intended** for a male audience.
  Ce livre s'adresse à un public masculin.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13651554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13651554) [\#13651551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13651551))

- I had **intended** to call Tom yesterday.
  J'avais prévu d'appeler Tom hier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Toynop · checked, community translation · [\#5798456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5798456) [\#5798878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5798878))

- Things didn't go as **intended**.
  Les choses ne se sont pas déroulées comme prévu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#9001518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9001518) [\#755812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/755812))

## 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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