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# returned — English to French

How English *returned* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: returned (28 235). By style: everyday 210 · literary 119 · biblical 178 · parliamentary 974 · legal and administrative 1 813 · UN documents 24 941.

## retour

Used about 2 367 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 61 · legal and administrative ≈ 189 · UN documents ≈ 2 078).

- You've **returned** to Akbou.
  Vous êtes de **retour** à Akbou.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#11042938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11042938) [\#11041822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11041822))

- They **returned** from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
  Ils furent de **retour** de l’exploration du pays au bout de quarante jours.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 13:25)

- The five children involved were supposed to be **returned** to their parents on Monday, but have not been as yet.
  Les cinq enfants concernés étaient censés retourner chez leurs parents lundi, mais ce **retour** n’a toujours pas eu lieu.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 661452)

- The following shall be accepted as **returned** goods:
  Sont admises comme marchandises en **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 33762)

- South Africa has **returned** from a long voyage.
  L &apos; Afrique du Sud est de **retour** d &apos; un long voyage.
  ([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 756424)

## More sentences

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

- Jim has not yet **returned** home.
  Jim n'est pas encore rentré à la maison.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by weihaiping and kiyo · checked, community translation · [\#1499018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1499018) [\#2504964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2504964))

- I **returned** to Japan.
  Je suis retourné au Japon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and franlexcois · checked, community translation · [\#259804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259804) [\#4450481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4450481))

- Tom **returned** to his room.
  Tom retourna dans sa chambre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6049270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6049270) [\#5367329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5367329))

## 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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