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# return — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: return (97 405), returns (10 994). By style: everyday 320 · literary 73 · biblical 246 · parliamentary 6 192 · legal and administrative 13 277 · UN documents 88 291.

## retour

Used about 38 806 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 677 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 043 · UN documents ≈ 34 029). Forms: retour, retours.

- What do you expect in **return**?
  Qu'attendez-vous en **retour** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2006443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2006443) [\#12248205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12248205))

- I will not speak of the sufferings we endured in our **return**.
  Je ne m'appesantirai pas sur les souffrances de notre **retour**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1788)

- So he went another way, and didn’t **return** by the way that he came to Bethel.
  Et il s’en alla par un autre chemin, il ne prit pas à son **retour** le chemin par lequel il était venu à Béthel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 13:10)

- I voted against the **Returns** Directive.
  J'ai voté contre la directive sur le **retour**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1101055)

- Pool of **return** specialists
  Réserve de spécialistes des questions de **retour**
  ([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 4039952)

## rendement

Used about 9 501 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 387 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 596 · UN documents ≈ 5 518).

- It is not just about economic **returns**.
  Il ne s’agit pas uniquement de **rendement** économique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 736679)

- **return** on equity after tax.
  **rendement** des capitaux propres après impôt
  ([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 4206534)

- It can also be assessed in terms of private and social **returns**.
  On peut aussi l &apos; évaluer par référence à son **rendement** économique individuel ou à son rendement social.
  ([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 4073124)

- Much has been done to improve the environmental **returns** of European Union's aid programmes.
  Et des mesures importantes ont été prises pour améliorer le **rendement** des programmes d'assistance de l'Union en matière d'environnement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1648177)

- benchmarking work on the rate of **return**
  des travaux comparatifs sur le taux de **rendement**.
  ([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 3484703)

## revenir

Used about 3 456 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 516 · legal and administrative ≈ 138 · UN documents ≈ 2 759).

- Do you think Tom can **return**?
  Penses-tu que Tom peut **revenir** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6775526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6775526) [\#6167258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6167258))

- “So you were telling me to **return**?”
  «Vous me disiez donc de **revenir**?»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6099)

- before I go where I will not **return** from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
  Avant que je m’en aille, pour ne plus **revenir**, Dans le pays des ténèbres et de l’ombre de la mort,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 10:21)

- Allow me, though, to **return** to an unsavoury point.
  Mais permettez-moi de **revenir** sur un point désagréable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 740680)

- Every brake control shall be designed such that it **returns** to the fully off position when released.
  Toutes les commandes de frein doivent être conçues de façon à **revenir** à leur position de départ quand elles sont desserrées.
  ([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 5549633)

## More sentences

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

- I will not **return** their money to them.
  Je ne leur rendrai pas leur argent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6934248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6934248) [\#8420904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8420904))

- Jonas didn’t **return**.
  Jonas n'est pas revenu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11634762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11634762) [\#12477004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12477004))

- Aimee will **return** home at three o'clock.
  Aimée va rentrer chez elle à trois heures.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jesse and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#3581058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3581058) [\#3590075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3590075))

## 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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