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# observed — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: observed (51 085). By style: everyday 24 · literary 32 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 1 567 · legal and administrative 4 955 · UN documents 44 500.

## observé

Used about 12 552 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 65 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 271 · UN documents ≈ 10 198). Forms: observé, observés.

- Have you **observed** it?
  L'avez-vous **observé** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ\_Saidez and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11160277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11160277) [\#3147107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3147107))

- It was this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements **observed** from the shed by Jean Valjean.
  C'était cette opération qui lui faisait faire les mouvements particuliers **observés** du hangar par Jean Valjean.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10080)

- He said, “I have **observed** all these things from my youth up.”
  J’ai, dit-il, **observé** toutes ces choses dès ma jeunesse.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:21)

- I have not **observed** any gender-based discrimination in the scientific world.
  Je n'ai pas **observé** de discrimination de genre dans le monde scientifique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1024376)

- **Observed** or forecast phenomenon (M)
  Phénomène **observé** ou prévu (M)
  ([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 4272780)

## More sentences

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

- We only have one rule, but it must be **observed** strictly.
  Nous avons une seule et unique règle, mais il faut la respecter strictement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12632876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12632876) [\#12631378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12631378))

- How is the error **observed**?
  Comment se manifeste le défaut ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kroko and kroko · checked, community translation · [\#749459](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749459) [\#749461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749461))

- He **observed** this calmly, from a comfortable distance.
  Il observait cela calmement à une distance convenable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3210780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3210780) [\#1856835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1856835))

## 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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