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# killed — English to French

How English *killed* 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: killed (32 849). By style: everyday 528 · literary 24 · biblical 245 · parliamentary 1 526 · legal and administrative 1 078 · UN documents 29 448.

## tué

Used about 20 028 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 352 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 890 · legal and administrative ≈ 314 · UN documents ≈ 18 405). Forms: tué, tuées, tués.

- No one was **killed**.
  Personne ne fut **tué**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pititnatole · checked, community translation · [\#4500424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500424) [\#5372900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5372900))

- Who **killed** that man?
  Qui a **tué** cet homme?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28148)

- Do you want to kill me as you **killed** the Egyptian yesterday?’
  Veux-tu me tuer, comme tu as **tué** hier l’Égyptien?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 7:28)

- Several people have been **killed**.
  Plusieurs personnes ont été **tuées**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 778631)

- Animals **killed** at study termination should be fixed by perfusion.
  Ceux des animaux **tués** à la fin de l'étude doivent être fixés par perfusion.
  ([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 3375741)

## mort

Used about 1 817 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 64 · legal and administrative ≈ 472 · UN documents ≈ 1 227).

- Julius Caesar was **killed** by dysentery.
  Jules César est **mort** de dysenterie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Everybody and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13142405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13142405) [\#13193923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13193923))

- But you were pitiless in getting yourself **killed** like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do you understand, you assassin?”
  Et puisque tu as été sans pitié en te faisant tuer comme cela, je n'aurai même pas de chagrin de ta **mort**, entends-tu, assassin!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28512)

- When he **killed** them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
  Quand il les frappait de **mort**, ils le cherchaient, Ils revenaient et se tournaient vers Dieu;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 78:34)

- Innocent people are being **killed** and racism is evident in the application of the death penalty.
  On tue des innocents et le racisme est évident dans l'application de la peine de **mort**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 109862)

- **Killed** in the wild in this territory (4);\]
  qui ont été mis à **mort** dans la nature sur ce territoire (4);\]
  ([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 2906801)

## More sentences

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

- Tom was **killed** someplace else.
  Tom fut assassiné ailleurs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#3723393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3723393) [\#13316527](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13316527))

- Ziri would have **killed** Rima.
  Ziri aurait pu tuer Rima.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11253204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11253204) [\#12482063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12482063))

- Julius Caesar was **killed** by dysentery.
  Jules César succomba à la dysenterie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Everybody and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13142405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13142405) [\#13193914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13193914))

## Grammar

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