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# reach — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reach (58 031), reaches (5 780). By style: everyday 187 · literary 37 · biblical 24 · parliamentary 8 102 · legal and administrative 5 322 · UN documents 50 139.

## atteint

Used about 16 307 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 70 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 928 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 719 · UN documents ≈ 13 579). Forms: atteindre, atteint.

- The train was to **reach** Paris at 8.
  Le train devait **atteindre** Paris à 8 heures.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#43443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43443) [\#390503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390503))

- The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand **reaches** to his throat; only his face is visible now.
  Le sable **atteint** les épaules, le sable atteint le cou; la face seule est visible maintenant.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27892)

- God, your righteousness also **reaches** to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
  Ta justice, ô Dieu! **Atteint** jusqu’au ciel; Tu as accompli de grandes choses: ô Dieu! Qui est semblable à toi?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 71:19)

- Madam President, when horror **reaches** such a degree, reason often fails to accompany our actions.
  Madame le Président, quand l'horreur **atteint** un tel degré, souvent la raison ne rejoint pas nos actes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1684952)

- either force application device **reaches** a total displacement of 300 mm.
  la course totale de l’un des dispositifs d’application des forces **atteint** 300 mm.
  ([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 5452778)

## jusqu

Used about 4 423 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 84 · legal and administrative ≈ 665 · UN documents ≈ 3 656).

- If you keep on like this, you'll probably live to **reach** 120!
  Si tu continues ainsi, tu vivras probablement **jusqu**’à 120 ans !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mickey86 · checked, community translation · [\#328729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328729) [\#1169393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1169393))

- Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, **reach** his bed, and conceal himself beneath it.
  Marius n'avait pas matériellement le temps de descendre de la commode, d'aller **jusqu**'à son lit et de s'y cacher.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17120)

- Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head **reach** to the clouds,
  Quand il s’élèverait **jusqu**’aux cieux, Et que sa tête toucherait aux nues,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 20:6)

- Now, therefore, we must do everything possible so that humanitarian aid and our aid **reaches** the people who need it.
  Aujourd'hui, donc, nous devons tout faire pour que l'aide humanitaire et notre aide puissent arriver **jusqu**'aux populations qui en ont besoin.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1228241)

- 60 months until the licence holder **reaches** the age of 40.
  60 mois **jusqu**’à ce que le titulaire de la licence atteigne l’âge de 40 ans.
  ([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 2455634)

## parvenir

Used about 4 422 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 844 · legal and administrative ≈ 444 · UN documents ≈ 3 134).

- We can’t **reach** the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
  Nous ne saurions **parvenir** jusqu’au Tout-Puissant, Grand par la force, Par la justice, par le droit souverain: Il ne répond pas!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 37:23)

- We still have a long way to go before we **reach** that point.
  Nous avons encore un long chemin à parcourir avant d’y **parvenir**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 531604)

- Accelerate efforts to **reach** an agreement with Europol.
  Hâter les efforts en vue de **parvenir** à un accord avec Europol.
  ([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 773395)

- There is a need to **reach** agreement on specific, modern and, most important, effective rules of the game.
  Il est nécessaire de **parvenir** à un accord sur des règles du jeu spécifiques, modernes et surtout 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 18331041)

- This means that we find ourselves in a situation in which we simply have to **reach** an agreement.
  Ce qui signifie tout simplement que nous nous trouvons dans un situation où il faut **parvenir** à un accord.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1802094)

## More sentences

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

- How did you **reach** such an interesting conclusion?
  Comment êtes-vous parvenu à une conclusion si intéressante ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by janms and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3516149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3516149) [\#3516329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3516329))

- How did you **reach** such an interesting conclusion?
  Comment êtes-vous parvenus à une conclusion si intéressante ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by janms and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3516149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3516149) [\#3516331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3516331))

- I was trying to **reach** you.
  J'essayais de vous joindre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2544952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2544952) [\#2589195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2589195))

## 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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