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# trial — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: trial (76 479), trials (16 996). By style: everyday 41 · literary 8 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 2 179 · legal and administrative 3 349 · UN documents 87 886.

## procès

Used about 51 173 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 158 · legal and administrative ≈ 558 · UN documents ≈ 49 436).

- There was a **trial**.
  Il y a eu un **procès**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Maxence · checked, community translation · [\#4495132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4495132) [\#7688179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7688179))

- M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which contained the **trials** of the commission on highways for the infraction of police regulations.
  M. Madeleine était resté assis près de la cheminée, une plume à la main, l'oeil sur un dossier qu'il feuilletait et qu'il annotait, et qui contenait des **procès**-verbaux de contraventions à la police de la voirie.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4556)

- The editor of Iran News did not receive a public **trial**.
  Le rédacteur d'Iran News n'a pas eu de **procès** public.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1812057)

- He participated in protesters **trial**.
  A participé au **procès** des manifestants.
  ([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 2242498)

- **Trial** commenced on 9 June 2009
  **Procès** ouvert le 9 juin 2009
  ([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 23208596)

## essais

Used about 8 358 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 454 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 407 · UN documents ≈ 5 493). Forms: essai, essais.

- The drug must go through clinical **trials** before being approved.
  Le médicament doit subir des **essais** cliniques avant approbation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#950932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950932) [\#950972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950972))

- Once he made a **trial**.
  Une fois il fit un **essai**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19560)

- They condone obstruction and destruction of these **trials**.
  Ils excusent l'obstruction et la destruction de ces **essais**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 382676)

- Clinical **trials** on minors
  **Essais** cliniques sur les mineurs
  ([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 3322006)

- Section E. Comparative **trials**
  Section E. **Essais** comparatifs
  ([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 15501635)

## More sentences

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

- I want those responsible for the massacre brought to **trial**.
  Je veux que les responsables du massacre soient traduits en justice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3724570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3724570) [\#8638954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8638954))

- Dan went on **trial** for the murder of his wife, Linda.
  Dan est passé en jugement pour l'assassinat de sa femme, Linda.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#3991455](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991455) [\#3991683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991683))

- A play with many scene changes may be a **trial** for the crew or a **trial** for the audience.
  Une pièce comportant de nombreux changements de décors peut constituer une épreuve pour la troupe ou pour le public.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by halfb1t and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2082724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2082724) [\#2083366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2083366))

## 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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