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# invite — English to French

How English *invite* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: invite (23 481), invites (35 213). By style: everyday 119 · literary 1 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 1 634 · legal and administrative 1 607 · UN documents 55 327.

## invite

Used about 50 067 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 57 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 311 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 440 · UN documents ≈ 47 258). Forms: invite, inviter.

- **Invite** her over to our place.
  **Invite**-la chez nous !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#8800777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8800777) [\#6158833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6158833))

- But if one of those who don’t believe **invites** you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
  Si un non-croyant vous **invite** et que vous vouliez y aller, mangez de tout ce qu’on vous présentera, sans vous enquérir de rien par motif de conscience.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 10:27)

- I very much want to **invite** reflection.
  Je vous **invite** instamment à la réflexion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 494368)

- The Commission **invites** France:
  La Commission **invite** la France:
  ([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 529500)

- To this end, the Council **invites**:
  À cette fin, il **invite** :
  ([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 25110544)

## prendre

Used about 1 186 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 · UN documents ≈ 1 153).

- We **invite** Mr Liikanen to take a seat in the front row.
  Nous invitons M. Liikanen à **prendre** un siège au premier rang.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 286814)

- It **invites** the Commission to take employment into consideration in its assessment.
  Elles invitent la Commission à **prendre** l'emploi en considération dans le cadre de son appréciation.
  ([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 3527641)

- 29. We **invite** the human rights treaty bodies to consider the Declaration in accordance with their respective mandates.
  Nous invitons les organes créés en vertu d &apos; instruments relatifs aux droits de l &apos; homme à **prendre** en considération la Déclaration conformément à leurs mandats respectifs.
  ([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 29021608)

- If the Chamber of the Court considers it appropriate, the Chamber may **invite** and consider the views of the victims before deciding on the assurance.
  Si la Chambre de la Cour l’estime approprié, la Chambre peut solliciter et **prendre** en considération les observations des victimes avant de se prononcer au sujet de l’assurance.
  ([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 6551225)

## j

Used about 1 170 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17 · UN documents ≈ 1 153).

- The 'complementarity' criterion **invites** three comments.
  **J**'ai trois observations à formuler concernant le critère de 'complémentarité?.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 460168)

- I have the pleasure, therefore, and the honour to **invite** Mr. Barth Eide to take the floor to address us this morning.
  C &apos; est pourquoi **j** &apos; ai le plaisir et l &apos; honneur de donner la parole à M. Barth Eide ce matin.
  ([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 20493225)

- The President (spoke in Spanish): I now **invite** the attention of the Assembly to documents A/63/458 and A/63/470.
  Le Président (parle en espagnol) : **J** &apos; appelle maintenant l &apos; attention de l &apos; Assemblée générale sur les documents A/63/458 et A/63/470.
  ([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 18258979)

## More sentences

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

- How many people did you **invite** to your wedding?
  Combien de personnes avez-vous invitées à votre mariage ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#5919664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5919664) [\#12269334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12269334))

- Whom will we **invite**?
  Qui est-ce que nous inviterons ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Danka and Danka · checked, community translation · [\#12035156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12035156) [\#12035154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12035154))

- We **invite** you to listen to us again.
  Nous vous invitons à nous écouter à nouveau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1766624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1766624) [\#1778557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1778557))

## 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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