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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2240853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240853) [\#2264083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2264083)) - He even **tried** to profane the temple, and we arrested him. et qui même a **tenté** de profaner le temple. Et nous l’avons arrêté. Nous avons voulu le juger selon notre loi; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 24:6) - I have **tried** to find it in the newspapers. J'ai **tenté** de le découvrir dans les journaux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 385574) - During the same period, IKB **tried** to sell the two portfolios by public auction. À la même période, IKB a **tenté** de vendre les deux portefeuilles dans une vente publique aux enchères. ([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 1706047) - We have **tried** to mobilize available resources to the maximum. Nous avons **tenté** de mobiliser au maximum les ressources disponibles. ([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 7831836) ## essayé Used about 2 793 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 501 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 794 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 · UN documents ≈ 1 450). - I **tried** and failed. J'ai **essayé** et échoué. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and franlexcois · checked, community translation · [\#4498480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4498480) [\#4992948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4992948)) - “And how about the day when you **tried** to pull me round in the Pearl? --Et le jour où tu as **essayé** de ramer plus fort que moi, dans la Perle? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1743) - David strapped his sword on his clothing and he **tried** to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them.” Then David took them off. David ceignit l’épée de Saül par-dessus ses habits, et voulut marcher, car il n’avait pas encore **essayé**. Mais il dit à Saül: Je ne puis pas marcher avec cette armure, je n’y suis pas accoutumé. Et il s’en débarrassa. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 17:39) - It **tried** to transfer powers belonging to Parliament to itself. Il a **essayé** de s'arroger un pouvoir qui revient au Parlement européen. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 331550) - AVAS had previously **tried** several times to privatise the company, however, without any success. Auparavant, AVAS avait **essayé** à plusieurs reprises, sans succès, de privatiser l’entreprise. ([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 1404573) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I must have **tried** on everything in the shop, but nothing looked right on me. J'ai dû essayer tous les articles du magasin, mais rien ne me va. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and minti · checked, community translation · [\#259603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259603) [\#138945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/138945)) - Tom **tried** to hit Mary. Tom essaya de toucher Mary. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5109583](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5109583) [\#5706351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5706351)) - Tom **tried** to appear calm. Tom chercha à paraître calme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Whidou · checked, community translation · [\#3422099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3422099) [\#8540621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8540621)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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