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# établir — French to English

How French *établir* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: établir (172 892), établire (1). By style: everyday 24 · literary 4 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 7 511 · legal and administrative 17 721 · UN documents 147 607.

## establish

Used about 70 251 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 973 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 015 · UN documents ≈ 60 248). Forms: establish, established, establishing. Meaning: [establish in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/establish/).

- L'Iran et la Russie vont **établir** une banque commune.
  Iran and Russia will **establish** a joint bank.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#3556552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3556552) [\#6802937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6802937))

- Chaque molécule de l'eau du ruisseau enlevait une molécule de calorique rayonnant aux reins de Gringoire, et l'équilibre entre la température de son corps et la température du ruisseau commençait à s'**établir** d'une rude façon.
  Each molecule of the gutter bore away a molecule of heat radiating from Gringoire’s loins, and the equilibrium between the temperature of his body and the temperature of the brook, began to be **established** in rough fashion.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1110)

- il dit ensuite: Voici, je viens pour faire ta volonté. Il abolit ainsi la première chose pour **établir** la seconde.
  then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may **establish** the second,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 10:9)

- Primo, il faudrait rapidement **établir** une coopération douanière.
  First, customs cooperation needs to be **established** promptly.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 674148)

- Le comité de coopération peut **établir** des règles pour la conduite de ce dialogue.
  The Cooperation Committee may **establish** rules for the conduct of such dialogue.
  ([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 166240)

## between

Used about 9 720 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 313 · legal and administrative ≈ 369 · UN documents ≈ 9 037). Meaning: [between in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/between/).

- La police préfectorale essaie d'**établir** quel conflit est survenu entre le père et la fille à la suite du dîner familial.
  The prefectural police is trying to find out what conflict took place **between** the father and daughter following the family dinner.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · [\#965595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/965595) [\#965671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/965671))

- Il est vital d'**établir** un équilibre entre le marché et nos valeurs sociales. Il aurait été extrêmement préjudiciable de perdre ce principe.
  The balance **between** the market and our social values is vitally important; to have lost this principle would have been deeply damaging.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1535738)

- une méthode permettant d’**établir** un lien univoque entre le document d’identification et l’équidé;
  a method to ensure an unequivocal link **between** the identification document and the equine animal;
  ([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 1553051)

- On a estimé qu &apos; il était crucial d &apos; **établir** des partenariats efficaces entre la police et les organisations non gouvernementales s &apos; occupant du problème de la violence.
  Effective partnership **between** the police and non-governmental organizations working on violence was considered crucial.
  ([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 5041833)

- Il ne s'agit pas d'exercer une tutelle mais d'**établir**, par le dialogue, une distinction entre le peuple slovaque et les différentes erreurs commises.
  We should not try to tell them what to do but should distinguish on the basis of dialogue **between** the Slovakian people and various wrong turns.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1612339)

## set

Used about 7 024 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 626 · legal and administrative ≈ 369 · UN documents ≈ 6 025). Meaning: [set in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/set/).

- Lorsque les fonds sont limités, il faut **établir** des priorités.
  When funds are limited, priorities need to be **set**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10366303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10366303) [\#11181087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11181087))

- Darius trouva bon d’**établir** sur le royaume cent vingt satrapes, qui devaient être dans tout le royaume.
  It pleased Darius to **set** over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 6:1)

- Nous avons voulu **établir** des critères relatifs au site de la nouvelle autorité, comme nous pensions que nous devrions le faire.
  We wanted to **set** out criteria for the site of the new authority as we believe we should.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 267822)

- Les prestataires de service en réassurance ne peuvent s'**établir** pour fournir à la fois des services de réassurance-vie et non-vie.
  Reinsurance service suppliers cannot be **set** up for the supply of both life and non-life reinsurance services.
  ([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 268546)

- De même, des groupes de travail peuvent être constitués pour **établir** des rapports thématiques devant être présentés à la Commission.
  Similarly, working groups would be **set** up to prepare thematic reports for the consideration of the Commission.
  ([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 17446438)

## out

Used about 4 652 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 156 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 477 · UN documents ≈ 3 012). Meaning: [out in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/out/).

- J'ai demandé à l'avocat d'**établir** mon testament.
  I asked the lawyer to make **out** my will.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#679094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/679094) [\#9763411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9763411))

- Un poste de Philistins vint s’**établir** au passage de Micmasch.
  The garrison of the Philistines went **out** to the pass of Michmash.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 13:23)

- Toutefois, gardons la tête froide et évaluons la situation. Il faut absolument **établir** les responsabilités.
  However, it is now important for us to keep a cool head and carry **out** an analysis of the current situation and, above all, to attribute responsibility.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1418461)

- Il convient d’**établir** des procédures d’échantillonnage et d’essai pour mener ces examens et enquêtes officiels.
  Sampling and testing procedures should be set **out** for conducting such official investigations and surveys.
  ([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 1185330)

- L &apos; ICCA a été prié de revoir les rubriques actuelles pour **établir** si elles pouvaient (voire devaient), être supprimées de la liste des marchandises dangereuses.
  ICCA was requested to revisit the existing entries to find **out** whether they can be (or even have to be) deleted from the Dangerous Goods List.
  ([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 9718716)

## More sentences

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

- Tom a l'intention de s'**établir** à demeure au Japon.
  Tom intends to live in Japan for good.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#37272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37272) [\#1704678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1704678))

- Nous devrions **établir** quelques règles de base avant de commencer.
  We should lay down a few ground rules before we begin.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#699997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/699997) [\#805101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805101))

- Nous allons tout d'abord **établir** la cause du désastre.
  We will first ascertain the cause of the disaster.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and slyfin · checked, community translation · [\#32808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32808) [\#1118957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1118957))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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