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# made — English to French

How English *made* 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: made (817 713), mades (2). By style: everyday 2 614 · literary 334 · biblical 1 191 · parliamentary 51 969 · legal and administrative 77 288 · UN documents 684 319.

## fait

Used about 116 318 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 762 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 74 · parliamentary ≈ 4 331 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 610 · UN documents ≈ 109 491).

- He **made** himself a sandwich.
  Il s'est **fait** un sandwich.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#2498778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2498778) [\#2502563](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2502563))

- “I have **made** an enormous mistake.”
  --J'ai **fait** une faute énorme.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18699)

- the covenant which he **made** with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
  L’alliance qu’il a traitée avec Abraham, Et le serment qu’il a **fait** à Isaac;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 16:16)

- Mr Pompidou **made** particular reference to this matter as well.
  M. Pompidou a **fait** également référence à cet aspect particulier.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1680131)

- Where reference is **made** to this paragraph, Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
  Lorsqu’il est **fait** référence au présent paragraphe, l’article 4 du règlement (UE) no 182/2011 s’applique.
  ([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 3314562)

## More sentences

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

- The medicine **made** me sleepy.
  Le médicament m'a donné sommeil.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#43568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43568) [\#3662488](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3662488))

- "Do you know where this camera was **made**?" "I think it was **made** in China, but I'm not sure."
  « Savez-vous où cette caméra a été fabriquée ? » « Je pense qu'elle a été fabriquée en Chine, mais je n'en suis pas sûr. »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2751242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2751242) [\#8328285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8328285))

- The car **made** a turn to the left.
  La voiture tourna à gauche.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#264521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264521) [\#3638329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3638329))

## 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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