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# obtain — English to French

How English *obtain* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: obtain (51 812), obtains (1 991). By style: everyday 20 · literary 7 · biblical 17 · parliamentary 3 335 · legal and administrative 7 989 · UN documents 42 435.

## obtenir

Used about 17 046 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 834 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 497 · UN documents ≈ 13 703).

- Where can I **obtain** a map of Europe?
  Où puis-je **obtenir** une carte de l'Europe ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#38099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38099) [\#1645938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1645938))

- On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is one of the most generous figures of our day: “His pardon is granted; it only remains for me to **obtain** it.”
  Une autre fois, faisant allusion aux résistances de ses ministres, il écrivait à propos d'un condamné politique qui est une des plus généreuses figures de notre temps: Sa grâce est accordée, il ne me reste plus qu'à l'**obtenir**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18202)

- Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might **obtain** a better resurrection.
  Des femmes recouvrèrent leurs morts par la résurrection; d’autres furent livrés aux tourments, et n’acceptèrent point de délivrance, afin d’**obtenir** une meilleure résurrection;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 11:35)

- All the members of the Committee are here to **obtain** our support.
  Tous les membres de ce Comité sont ici pour **obtenir** notre soutien.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 918156)

- However, no licence shall be required to **obtain** a refund:
  Toutefois, aucun certificat n'est exigé pour **obtenir** une restitution:
  ([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 1865399)

## obtient

Used about 7 286 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 556 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 746 · UN documents ≈ 3 978).

- “One **obtains** a respite; that does no harm to any one, and allows the midwives, who are poor women, to earn forty deniers parisis.”
  On **obtient** un sursis, cela ne fait de mal à personne, et cela fait gagner quarante deniers parisis aux matrones, qui sont de pauvres femmes.»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6650)

- For whoever finds me finds life, and will **obtain** favor from the LORD.
  Car celui qui me trouve a trouvé la vie, Et il **obtient** la faveur de l’Éternel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 8:35)

- Let us see who **obtains** what from the budget.
  Nous montrer qui **obtient** quoi du budget.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 680154)

- WIK **obtains** the following results for the period 1998-2007:
  WIK **obtient** les résultats suivants pour la période 1998-2007:
  ([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 2510622)

- (f) Carry out structured and regular benchmarking exercises, where feasible, of the prices that it **obtains**.
  f) Procéder à des analyses comparatives structurées et régulières, chaque fois que possible, des prix qu &apos; il **obtient**.
  ([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 28940891)

## More sentences

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

- They don't realize that they're being used as pawns to **obtain** a wider political objective.
  Ils ne prennent pas conscience qu'ils sont utilisés comme des pions pour atteindre un objectif politique plus large.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#717226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/717226) [\#801680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801680))

- If this does not **obtain**, we cannot say that the function is monotone increasing.
  Si cela n'est pas satisfait, on ne peut pas dire que la fonction est monotone croissante.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#794998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/794998) [\#794995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/794995))

- Don't **obtain** wealth at the expense of your conscience.
  N'acquiers pas la richesse au détriment de ta conscience.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and jerom · checked, community translation · [\#325898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325898) [\#413969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413969))

## 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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