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# want — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: want (64 721), wants (8 438). By style: everyday 13 069 · literary 61 · biblical 80 · parliamentary 41 798 · legal and administrative 609 · UN documents 17 542.

## veut

Used about 19 443 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 126 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 10 885 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 · UN documents ≈ 2 375).

- Tom **wants** a dog.
  Tom **veut** un chien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#6196168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6196168) [\#13830890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13830890))

- “There is some one who **wants** to speak with you.”
  --Il y a là quelqu'un qui **veut** vous parler.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23484)

- On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here and go away, for Herod **wants** to kill you.”
  Ce même jour, quelques pharisiens vinrent lui dire: Va-t’en, pars d’ici, car Hérode **veut** te tuer.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 13:31)

- So, what more do people **want**?
  Que **veut**-on donc de plus?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 778050)

- Does not **want** to change professional status
  Ne **veut** pas changer de statut professionnel
  ([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 3913847)

## veux

Used about 6 949 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 356 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 2 177 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 · UN documents ≈ 365).

- I **want** my freedom.
  Je **veux** ma liberté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2011364](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2011364) [\#4692223](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4692223))

- What do you **want** it for?”
  Pourquoi le **veux**-tu?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1181)

- They said to him, “Where do you **want** us to prepare?”
  Ils lui dirent: Où **veux**-tu que nous la préparions?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:9)

- But I **want** to make three points.
  Je **veux** cependant faire trois groupes de remarques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1770894)

- What happens if you don’t **want** to go to another country?
  Que se passe-t-il si tu ne **veux** pas aller dans un autre pays?
  ([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 3251424)

## souhaite

Used about 5 607 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 136 · parliamentary ≈ 3 919 · legal and administrative ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 1 279).

- You're asking me to do something I don't **want** to do.
  Vous me demandez de faire quelque chose que je ne **souhaite** pas faire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2034083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2034083) [\#7776399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7776399))

- Only a referendum will show whether the Danish population **wants** this to happen.
  Seul un référendum indiquera si la population danoise le **souhaite**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1926242)

- and does not **want** to have work
  et ne **souhaite** pas en avoir
  ([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 1520571)

- Ireland **wants** to play its full part in this exercise of renewal.
  L &apos; Irlande **souhaite** jouer pleinement son rôle dans ce travail de renouvellement.
  ([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 6967133)

- Madam President, anyone who **wants** to make an explanation of vote should actually be present!
  Madame le Président, celui qui **souhaite** déposer une explication de vote doit être présent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1767161)

## More sentences

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

- It's yours if you **want** it.
  C'est à vous, si vous en voulez.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3386077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3386077) [\#3386220](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3386220))

- They **want** to build one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
  Elles veulent construire l'un des plus beaux bâtiments du monde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by derpapottamus and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4833044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4833044) [\#11662518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11662518))

- Is there something in particular that you **want** to hear?
  Y a-t-il quelque chose de particulier que vous vouliez entendre ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1964713](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1964713) [\#1965470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1965470))

## 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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