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# wished — English to French

How English *wished* 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: wished (33 308). By style: everyday 64 · literary 19 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 072 · legal and administrative 298 · UN documents 31 854.

## souhaité

Used about 14 160 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 134 · legal and administrative ≈ 81 · UN documents ≈ 13 936). Forms: souhaite, souhaité.

- I **wished** him a good journey.
  Je lui ai **souhaité** bon voyage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by quickfitter and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1439130](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1439130) [\#1441132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1441132))

- Naturally, it is not everything we could have **wished**.
  Bien entendu, on aurait **souhaité** aller plus loin.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1384389)

- Number of hours **wished** to work in total
  Nombre total d’heures que la personne **souhaite** travailler
  ([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 1520454)

- He took it that the Committee **wished** to accede to those requests.
  Il considère que le Comité **souhaite** accéder à ces demandes.
  ([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 18305966)

- Tom **wished** everyone a merry Christmas.
  Tom a **souhaité** à tout le monde un joyeux Noël.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7653910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7653910) [\#9520124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9520124))

## More sentences

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

- Tom said he **wished** Mary wouldn't do that.
  Tom a dit qu'il espérait que Mary ne fasse pas ça.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Gib · checked, community translation · [\#6266350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6266350) [\#9794956](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9794956))

- We all **wished** each other good luck.
  Nous nous souhaitâmes tous bonne chance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7294122](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7294122) [\#10543648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10543648))

- We all **wished** for peace.
  Nous souhaitions toutes la paix.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#248513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/248513) [\#4868352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4868352))

## 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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