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# receive — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: receive (89 476), receives (12 219). By style: everyday 135 · literary 13 · biblical 179 · parliamentary 6 225 · legal and administrative 10 007 · UN documents 85 136.

## reçoit

Used about 37 436 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 1 167 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 274 · UN documents ≈ 31 926). Forms: reçoit, reçoivent.

- He **receives** the keys.
  Il **reçoit** les clés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#2751718](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2751718) [\#6823884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6823884))

- Whoever **receives** one such little child in my name **receives** me,
  Et quiconque **reçoit** en mon nom un petit enfant comme celui-ci, me reçoit moi-même.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:5)

- This continent **receives** 60% of the resources.
  Ce continent **reçoit** 60% des moyens alloués.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 546292)

- This function **receives** a verified emissions update request.
  Cette fonction **reçoit** une demande de mise à jour des émissions vérifiées.
  ([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 521928)

- 48. The College **receives** funding from a variety of sources.
  L &apos; École des cadres **reçoit** des fonds de diverses sources.
  ([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 10034947)

## recevoir

Used about 16 771 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 584 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 042 · UN documents ≈ 15 076).

- We should **receive** them tomorrow.
  Nous devrions les **recevoir** demain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#11900941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11900941) [\#8661070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8661070))

- “Can Monsieur **receive** M. Marius?”
  --Monsieur peut-il **recevoir** monsieur Marius?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22412)

- Why did the knees **receive** me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
  Pourquoi ai-je trouvé des genoux pour me **recevoir**, Et des mamelles pour m’allaiter?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 3:12)

- They want the guarantee that they **receive** safe products.
  Ils veulent être certains de **recevoir** des produits sûrs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 556729)

- Could you please tell me what type of assistance you received just now (or you will **receive** now)?
  Quel type d'aide ou d'assistance venez-vous de **recevoir** (ou allez-vous recevoir)?
  ([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 3974840)

## More sentences

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

- All participants will **receive** a T-shirt.
  Tous les participants recevront un T-shirt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5137569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5137569) [\#10973864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10973864))

- All of these abilities are passed on to us by genetic transmission; we **receive** them by way of the genes that we inherit from our parents.
  Tous ces talents nous sont attribués par transmission génétique ; nous les recevons au moyen des gènes que nous héritons de nos parents.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Sbgodin · checked, community translation · [\#240179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240179) [\#8688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8688))

- Did you **receive** an invitation?
  Est-ce que tu as reçu une invitation ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6261605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6261605) [\#8114537](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8114537))

## 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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