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# propose — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: propose (27 108), proposes (15 586). By style: everyday 31 · literary 2 · parliamentary 9 045 · legal and administrative 3 034 · UN documents 30 582.

## propose

Used about 30 831 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 6 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 718 · UN documents ≈ 21 981). Forms: propose, proposer.

- Man **proposes**, God disposes.
  L'homme **propose**, Dieu dispose.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orge and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#270367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270367) [\#4032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4032))

- The Commission **proposes** EUR 13 million.
  La Commission **propose** 13 millions d'euros.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 424498)

- DRAX **proposes** the following:
  Drax **propose** ce qui suit:
  ([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 560005)

- Objective I **propose** new text
  1 Objectif Je **propose** un nouveau texte.
  ([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 26894896)

- Man **proposes**, but God disposes.
  L'homme **propose**, Dieu dispose.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CarpeLanam and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#7031132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7031132) [\#4032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4032))

## More sentences

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

- I'm going to **propose** to Mary.
  Je vais demander à Mary de m'épouser.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5851214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5851214) [\#5803772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5803772))

- Did he **propose** to you?
  T'a-t-il demandé en mariage ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#460864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460864) [\#130672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130672))

- How do you **propose** we do that?
  Comment proposez-vous que nous le fassions ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3592210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3592210) [\#3601295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3601295))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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