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# provide — English to French

How English *provide* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: provide (558 899), provides (192 513). By style: everyday 94 · literary 2 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 23 881 · legal and administrative 83 670 · UN documents 643 745.

## fournir

Used about 113 080 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 483 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 688 · UN documents ≈ 93 879). Forms: fournir, fournit.

- An old tree **provides** shade.
  Un vieil arbre **fournit** de l'ombre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pne and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1808580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1808580) [\#3644735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3644735))

- Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he **provide** meat for his people?”
  Voici, il a frappé le rocher, et des eaux ont coulé, Et des torrents se sont répandus; Pourra-t-il aussi donner du pain, Ou **fournir** de la viande à son peuple?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 78:20)

- The Commissioners must **provide** you with appropriate content.
  Les commissaires doivent vous **fournir** un contenu suffisant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1135434)

- **provide** a declaration on the quality of the reported performance data;
  de **fournir** une déclaration sur la qualité des données communiquées sur la performance;
  ([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 5610675)

- To **provide** such assurance safeguards must be effective.
  Pour pouvoir **fournir** cette assurance, on a besoin de garanties efficaces.
  ([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 2132631)

## prévoit

Used about 81 123 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 736 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 330 · UN documents ≈ 67 057).

- With the commendable aim of conserving resources, this plan **provides** for further drastic fleet reductions.
  Dans le but louable d'assurer la protection de la ressource, ce plan **prévoit** encore des réductions drastiques des flottes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1605452)

- Article 2a(3) of the EPBD **provides** that:
  L'article 2 bis, paragraphe 3, de la DPEB **prévoit**:
  ([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 4852194)

- The Act does not **provide** for persons under the age of 18 who are married.
  Elle ne **prévoit** pas le cas des personnes de moins de 18 ans qui sont mariées.
  ([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 4916969)

- The Commission's proposal **provides** for a reduction to 200 milligrams per kilometre and is currently being debated in Parliament.
  La proposition de la Commission **prévoit** une baisse à 200 mg par kilomètre, qui est examinée en ce moment par le Parlement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 878651)

- Common Position 2001/931/CFSP **provides** for a review at regular intervals.
  La position commune 2001/931/PESC **prévoit** un réexamen à intervalles réguliers.
  ([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 594723)

## informations

Used about 37 887 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 358 · UN documents ≈ 33 528).

- The more information you give me, the better the advice I can **provide** you.
  Plus vous me donnerez d'**informations**, meilleurs seront les conseils que je pourrai vous donner.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2796059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2796059) [\#8469571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8469571))

- Member States may require samples to be taken to **provide** a check on this information.
  Les États membres peuvent exiger le prélèvement d’échantillons afin de vérifier lesdites **informations**.
  ([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 1578497)

- 29. Please **provide** information on the legal status of abortion in Algeria.
  29. Donner des **informations** sur le statut juridique de l &apos; avortement en Algérie.
  ([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 22375150)

- They shall ensure that the notifier **provides** such information to the Commission by 30 June 2010.’
  Ils veillent à ce que l’auteur des notifications fournisse ces **informations** à la Commission d’ici au 30 juin 2010.»
  ([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 1769032)

- This database **provides** information on total population by gender and age.
  Cette base de données contient des **informations** sur la population totale par sexe et par âge.
  ([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 15483541)

## More sentences

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

- Cows **provide** us with milk.
  Les vaches nous fournissent du lait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and melospawn · checked, community translation · [\#19495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19495) [\#783518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/783518))

- I have a large family to **provide** for.
  J'ai une grande famille à nourrir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#259318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259318) [\#3432804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3432804))

- This tree doesn't **provide** shade.
  Cet arbre ne fait pas d'ombre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#11946051](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11946051) [\#10522728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10522728))

## 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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