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# lost — English to French

How English *lost* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: lost (28 866). By style: everyday 1 489 · literary 59 · biblical 29 · parliamentary 3 961 · legal and administrative 2 073 · UN documents 21 255.

## perdu

Used about 15 166 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 117 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 815 · legal and administrative ≈ 691 · UN documents ≈ 11 513). Forms: perdu, perdus.

- They've got **lost**.
  Ils se sont **perdus**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#10022157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10022157) [\#8632630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8632630))

- “I have **lost** my copy books.
  --J'ai **perdu** mes cahiers.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4221)

- For the Son of Man came to save that which was **lost**.
  Car le Fils de l’homme est venu sauver ce qui était **perdu**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:11)

- The military have **lost** nothing there.
  Les militaires n’ont rien **perdu** là.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 516446)

- As a result, France Télécom had then **lost** the markets' confidence.
  En conséquence, FT avait alors **perdu** la confiance des marchés.
  ([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 825991)

## More sentences

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

- I almost **lost** my wallet.
  J'ai failli perdre mon portefeuille.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#3259729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259729) [\#3259728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259728))

- It's better to walk back than to get **lost**.
  Il est préférable de retourner en arrière plutôt que de se perdre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1287197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1287197) [\#1287274](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1287274))

- We're completely **lost**.
  Nous sommes complètement égarées.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2240839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240839) [\#4805472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4805472))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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