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# properly — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: properly (29 650). By style: everyday 99 · literary 7 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 5 224 · legal and administrative 3 480 · UN documents 20 836.

## correctement

Used about 5 702 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · parliamentary ≈ 1 741 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 305 · UN documents ≈ 2 605).

- Are you brushing your teeth **properly**?
  Te brosses-tu **correctement** les dents ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#40194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/40194) [\#1133022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1133022))

- This law simply cannot be implemented **properly**.
  Cette loi ne peut tout simplement pas être appliquée **correctement**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1307340)

- The oil record book has not been **properly** kept.
  Le registre des hydrocarbures n'a pas été tenu **correctement**.
  ([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 1738584)

- Accordingly, backstopping must function **properly**.
  Il faut donc que les services d’appui aux opérations fonctionnent **correctement**.
  ([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 4727241)

- The toilet doesn't flush **properly**.
  La chasse d'eau ne marche pas **correctement**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#38948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38948) [\#335726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/335726))

## convenablement

Used about 3 476 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 218 · legal and administrative ≈ 218 · UN documents ≈ 3 039).

- Out of a similar sideboard, **properly** draped with white napery and imitation lace, the Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory.
  Du buffet pareil, **convenablement** habillé de napperons blancs et de fausses dentelles, l'évêque avait fait l'autel qui décorait son oratoire.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 327)

- If this committee is to work **properly** it is vital that it gets the time to do the job correctly.
  Si l'on veut que cette commission puisse travailler **convenablement** il est vital qu'elle dispose du temps nécessaire pour mener à bien sa tâche.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1662092)

- The strawberries must be packed in such a way as to protect the produce **properly**.
  Les fraises doivent être emballées de façon à être **convenablement** protégées.
  ([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 4923652)

- 27. It was essential for peacekeeping operations to be **properly** financed.
  Il est capital que les opérations de maintien de la paix soient **convenablement** financées.
  ([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 4727263)

- “Then it is not true,” resumed Coictier hotly, “that gout is an internal eruption; that a wound caused by artillery is to be cured by the application of a young mouse roasted; that young blood, **properly** injected, restores youth to aged veins; it is not true that two and two make four, and that emprostathonos follows opistathonos.”
  --Donc il n'est pas vrai, reprit Coictier avec chaleur, que la goutte soit une dartre en dedans, qu'on guérisse une plaie d'artillerie par l'application d'une souris rôtie, qu'un jeune sang **convenablement** infusé rende la jeunesse à de vieilles veines; il n'est pas vrai que deux et deux font quatre, et que l'emprosthotonos succède à l'opisthotonos!»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2443)

## More sentences

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

- His sons are not **properly** brought up.
  Ses fils ne sont pas bien élevés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#287050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/287050) [\#11227166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11227166))

- You've been **properly** led up the garden path.
  On vous a bien promenée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#16417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16417) [\#2322060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2322060))

- This window doesn't shut **properly**.
  Cette fenêtre ne ferme pas bien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#10113410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10113410) [\#11448231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11448231))

## 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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