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# makes — English to French

How English *makes* 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: makes (48 796). By style: everyday 754 · literary 32 · biblical 109 · parliamentary 9 777 · legal and administrative 3 703 · UN documents 34 421.

## rend

Used about 2 475 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 110 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 611 · legal and administrative ≈ 309 · UN documents ≈ 1 434).

- That **makes** me sad.
  Ça me **rend** triste.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luiaard and Lebensfreude · checked, community translation · [\#8496537](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8496537) [\#3609701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3609701))

- He **makes** peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
  Il **rend** la paix à ton territoire, Il te rassasie du meilleur froment.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 147:14)

- It **makes** achieving the Lisbon objectives difficult.
  Cela **rend** les objectifs de Lisbonne plus difficiles à atteindre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1187511)

- it shows a condition which **makes** it unusable for further tests; and/or
  son état le **rend** inutilisable pour de nouveaux essais; et/ou
  ([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 2462633)

- In addition, Agreement No. 454 **makes** it obligatory to use the &quot; violence registration form &quot; .
  L &apos; ordonnance no 454 **rend** obligatoire l &apos; utilisation du &lt; &lt; formulaire d &apos; enregistrement des actes de violence &gt; &gt; .
  ([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 22404085)

## More sentences

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

- What **makes** you think you won't be able to do it?
  Qu'est-ce qui te fait croire que tu n'en seras pas capable ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#3620454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3620454) [\#5657810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5657810))

- That **makes** perfect sense to me.
  Ça me semble tomber sous le sens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1039255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1039255) [\#1041388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1041388))

- Their rude behavior **makes** me angry.
  Leur comportement insultant m'a énervé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Wittydev · checked, community translation · [\#1153476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1153476) [\#1153477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1153477))

## 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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