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# sets — English to French

How English *sets* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations 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: sets (36 526). By style: everyday 34 · literary 5 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 2 252 · legal and administrative 8 331 · UN documents 25 891.

## établit

Used about 2 135 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 188 · legal and administrative ≈ 868 · UN documents ≈ 1 079).

- He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and **sets** up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.
  C’est lui qui change les temps et les circonstances, qui renverse et qui **établit** les rois, qui donne la sagesse aux sages et la science à ceux qui ont de l’intelligence.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 2:21)

- There is a seventh directive which **sets** the framework within which state aid can or cannot be given.
  Une septième directive **établit** le cadre dans lequel les aides d'État peuvent ou ne peuvent pas être accordées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1714151)

- Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 **sets** out a simple and specific scheme for small farms.
  Le règlement (UE) no 1307/2013 **établit** un régime simple et spécifique pour les petites exploitations.
  ([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 3070888)

- The strategic social plan is a framework for social action which identifies government &apos; s major social strategies and **sets** its long term goals for this area.
  Le plan social stratégique est un cadre d &apos; action sociale qui détermine les principales stratégies du Gouvernement et **établit** ses objectifs à long terme dans le domaine.
  ([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 10518116)

- It **sets** out what needs to be done to help developing partners benefit from national, regional and global trade.
  Elle **établit** ce qui doit être fait afin d'aider nos partenaires en voie de développement à tirer profit du commerce national, régional et mondial.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 365864)

## fixe

Used about 1 104 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 235 · legal and administrative ≈ 868).

- The commodity market **sets** grain prices.
  La Bourse des marchandises **fixe** les prix des céréales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406281) [\#13406280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406280))

- Each Member State **sets** its own price and, as we know, they vary considerably.
  Chaque État membre **fixe** ce prix et, nous le savons, les variations sont très importantes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 710908)

- Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 **sets** harmonisation rules for ‘EU fertilising products’.
  Le règlement (UE) 2019/1009 **fixe** des règles d’harmonisation pour les «fertilisants UE».
  ([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 5092951)

- Magazines let writers write what they want and decide how to lay it out afterward, but that magazine prioritizes its design, so it **sets** a predetermined limit on how many words are in it.
  Les magazines permettent aux éditeurs de rédiger ce qu'ils veulent et de décider comment le mettre en page par la suite, mais ce magazine donne la priorité à la mise en page et il **fixe** donc une limite prédéterminée au nombre de mots qu'il contient.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marshmallowcat and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1527790](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1527790) [\#1527794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1527794))

- (FR) Madam President, there is no point in mentioning that a joint strategy is a strategy that **sets** joint priorities and goals.
  Madame la Présidente, inutile de rappeler qu'une stratégie commune, c'est une stratégie qui **fixe** des priorités et des objectifs communs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1445049)

## More sentences

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

- In a Fréchet space, the countable intersection of open dense **sets** is itself dense.
  Dans un espace de Fréchet toute intersection dénombrable d'ouverts denses est encore dense.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Paron and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#1522093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1522093) [\#120164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/120164))

- Only the truth **sets** one free.
  Rien ne libère que la vérité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13224498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13224498) [\#13224497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13224497))

- Obviously, the theorem is true for finite **sets**.
  Évidemment, le théorème est vrai pour les ensembles finis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and Archibald · checked, community translation · [\#367526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/367526) [\#429451](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429451))

## Grammar

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