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# represented — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: represented (59 568), representeds (1). By style: everyday 13 · literary 13 · parliamentary 2 701 · legal and administrative 4 732 · UN documents 52 110.

## représentait

Used about 37 915 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 576 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 352 · UN documents ≈ 32 968). Forms: représentait, représenté, représentée, représentées, représentés.

- The envoy **represented** his country.
  L'émissaire **représentait** son pays.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12340439](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12340439) [\#13024533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13024533))

- In this club of young Utopians, occupied chiefly with France, he **represented** the outside world.
  Dans ce jeune cénacle d'utopistes, surtout occupés de la France, il **représentait** le dehors.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14050)

- Both the Commission and the Council are **represented**.
  La Commission est **représentée**, ainsi que le Conseil.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1943450)

- the Community, **represented** by the Commission;
  la Communauté, **représentée** par la Commission,
  ([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 1478760)

- He is not **represented** by counsel.
  Il n &apos; est pas **représenté** par un conseil.
  ([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 10070032)

## était

Used about 4 465 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 113 · legal and administrative ≈ 99 · UN documents ≈ 4 254). Forms: étaient, était.

- They each **represented** different ideologies and interests but, more importantly, they were popular with limited sections of the Congolese population.
  Ils représentent chacun des idéologies et intérêts différents mais, surtout, ils **étaient** soutenus par des tranches limitées de la population congolaise.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1025264)

- The report **represented** the reforms the experts considered were needed and on which work had to begin immediately.
  Dans le rapport **étaient** présentées les réformes que les experts jugeaient indispensables et dont la mise en œuvre devait débuter immédiatement.
  ([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 2200538)

- The increase in the balance from the prior year **represented** accrued interest.
  L &apos; augmentation enregistrée par rapport à l &apos; année précédente **était** imputable à des intérêts accumulés.
  ([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 11312671)

- For this reason, the fact that the Euro-Mediterranean Conference, where the European Parliament was **represented**, was actually held, can be described as a success.
  C'est la raison pour laquelle le déroulement même de la conférence euroméditerranéenne, où le Parlement européen **était** présent, peut être qualifié de succès et de réussite.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 343428)

- OIOS also indicated that the intake in 2011 **represented** an anomaly owing to the large number of cases of health insurance fraud (59) that had led to the apparent spike.
  Le BSCI a également indiqué que le pic enregistré en 2011 **était** une anomalie liée au nombre élevé de fraudes à l &apos; assurance-maladie (59 affaires).
  ([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 28734475)

## More sentences

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

- The number 2015 is **represented** as 11111011111 in binary.
  Le nombre 2015 s’écrit 11111011111 en binaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ahlec and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#5771159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5771159) [\#3741244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3741244))

- I **represented** my country.
  Je représentais mon pays.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#2563400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2563400) [\#2212798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2212798))

- Both word and picture **represented** an apple by means of lines.
  Le mot et l'image représentaient une pomme au moyen de lignes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10510603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10510603) [\#10510631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10510631))

## 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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