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# launched — English to French

How English *launched* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: launched (57 064). By style: everyday 24 · literary 5 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 173 · legal and administrative 1 406 · UN documents 53 455.

## lancé

Used about 31 277 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 630 · legal and administrative ≈ 674 · UN documents ≈ 28 955). Forms: lancé, lancée, lancées, lancés.

- They **launched** a rocket.
  Ils ont **lancé** une fusée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#306126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306126) [\#4626810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4626810))

- A child who innocently blows upon the badly ignited fuse of a bomb, and makes it explode in his face, is no more terrified than was Mahiette at the effect of that name, abruptly **launched** into the cell of Sister Gudule.
  Un enfant qui souffle ingénument sur la mèche mal allumée d'un pétard et se le fait éclater dans les yeux, n'est pas plus épouvanté que ne le fut Mahiette, à l'effet de ce nom brusquement **lancé** dans la cellule de soeur Gudule.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3396)

- The Union's initiatives have been **launched**.
  Les initiatives de l'Union sont **lancées**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1598425)

- Subsequently, the ACAA negotiations could be **launched**.
  Par la suite, les négociations sur l'ACAA pourraient être **lancées**.
  ([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 248786)

- 12. A radio programme was **launched** on 30 November 2005.
  12. Une émission de radio a été **lancée** le 30 novembre 2005.
  ([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 16782942)

## More sentences

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

- The Soviet Union **launched** Sputnik I in 1957.
  L'Union Soviétique lança Spoutnik I en dix-neuf-cent-cinquante-sept.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1894272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1894272) [\#1902553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1902553))

- The prosecutor's office **launched** an investigation.
  Le parquet a ouvert une enquête.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#10660453](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10660453) [\#5844467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5844467))

- Russia has just **launched** a new public safety campaign called "Safe Selfies".
  La Russie vient de lancer une nouvelle campagne de sécurité publique appelée « Safe Selfies ».
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#4351150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4351150) [\#7074639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7074639))

## Grammar

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