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# replace — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: replace (36 869), replaces (2 218). By style: everyday 48 · literary 5 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 068 · legal and administrative 3 879 · UN documents 33 086.

## remplace

Used about 31 299 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 573 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 152 · UN documents ≈ 26 538). Forms: remplace, remplacer.

- I can **replace** it.
  Je peux le **remplacer**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#6948425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6948425) [\#6947071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6947071))

- The facit indignatio **replaces** the Gracchi.
  Le facit indignatio **remplace** les Gracques.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22903)

- It **replaces** the whole paragraph.
  Il **remplace** l'ensemble du paragraphe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1696809)

- **replace** existing heat or cold generation capacity;
  **remplacer** les capacités de production de chaleur ou de froid existantes; ou
  ([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 4570571)

- (**Replaces** TRANS/WP.15/AC.1/1999/16)
  (**Remplace** TRANS/WP.15/AC.1/1999/16)
  ([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 9840081)

## quot

Used about 689 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 689).

- 1.2.1 In the definition of &quot; Collective entry &quot; , **replace** &quot; well defined &quot; with &quot; defined &quot; .
  1.2.1 Les modifications dans la définition de &**quot**; Conteneur pour vrac &quot; ne s &apos; appliquent pas au texte français.
  ([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 26261296)

- Ethiopia therefore agrees with the present draft, which **replaces** &quot; appreciable &quot; with &quot; significant &quot; .
  C &apos; est pourquoi, l &apos; Éthiopie souscrit au libellé actuel, où le mot &**quot**; appréciable &quot; a été remplacé par &quot; significatif &quot; .
  ([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 2381129)

## More sentences

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

- This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to **replace** it.
  Ce néon commence à vaciller. Nous devons le changer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#238016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238016) [\#1462872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1462872))

- I'd like to **replace** it.
  J'aimerais le dédommager.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Quazel · checked, community translation · [\#320461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/320461) [\#135015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135015))

- I came to **replace** Tom.
  Je suis venue prendre la place de Tom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13037282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13037282) [\#13037281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13037281))

## 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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