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# accepter — French to English

How French *accepter* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: acceptaient (728), acceptait (1 290), accepte (12 839), acceptent (5 908), accepter (38 254), acceptes (7), acceptez (193), acceptons (1 389), accepté (38 185), acceptée (12 247), acceptées (13 224), acceptés (8 587). By style: everyday 540 · literary 34 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 20 074 · legal and administrative 13 099 · UN documents 99 088.

## accept

Used about 75 530 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 382 · literary ≈ 23 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 10 873 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 918 · UN documents ≈ 55 332). Forms: accept, accepted. Meaning: [accept in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/accept/).

- Je ne l'**accepte** pas.
  I don't **accept** it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2283760](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2283760) [\#2284636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2284636))

- J'ai **accepté** la survivance du père Mestienne.
  I have **accepted** Father Mestienne’s reversion.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12086)

- En effet, vous avez eu de la compassion pour les prisonniers, et vous avez **accepté** avec joie l’enlèvement de vos biens, sachant que vous avez des biens meilleurs et qui durent toujours.
  For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully **accepted** the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 10:34)

- Ils n'**acceptent** que du supplétif.
  It will only **accept** acolytes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 348784)

- **Acceptez**-vous la demande?
  Do you **accept** the claim?
  ([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 4357029)

## agreed

Used about 11 730 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 635 · legal and administrative ≈ 836 · UN documents ≈ 9 222). Meaning: [agreed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/agreed/).

- J'ai **accepté** de venir.
  I **agreed** to come.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8788165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8788165) [\#11988528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11988528))

- Il proposait, elle **acceptait**.
  He proposed, and she **agreed**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19622)

- (Le Parlement **accepte** cette proposition.)
  (The House **agreed** to this proposal.)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1017661)

- Plusieurs modifications consolidées **acceptées** par le groupe de travail permanent
  Various consolidated amendments **agreed** by the standing working group
  ([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 3826848)

- Cette proposition a été **acceptée**.
  This proposal was **agreed**.
  ([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 11191694)

## only

Used about 1 936 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 532 · legal and administrative ≈ 403 · UN documents ≈ 981). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/).

- Ce restaurant n'**accepte** que du liquide.
  This restaurant **only** accepts cash.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2580923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2580923) [\#13212530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13212530))

- Alors Phileas Fogg avait **accepté** de prendre passage pour Bordeaux, et, depuis trente heures qu'il était à bord, il avait si bien manoeuvré à coups de bank-notes, que l'équipage, matelots et chauffeurs--équipage un peu interlope, qui était en assez mauvais termes avec le capitaine--, lui appartenait.
  Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for Bordeaux, and, during the thirty hours he had been on board, had so shrewdly managed with his banknotes that the sailors and stokers, who were **only** an occasional crew, and were not on the best terms with the captain, went over to him in a body.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2886)

- Leurs troupeaux, leurs biens et tout leur bétail, ne seront-ils pas à nous? **Acceptons** seulement leur condition, pour qu’ils restent avec nous.
  Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? **Only** let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 34:23)

- Nous ne voterons en faveur du rapport que si nos amendements sont **acceptés**.
  We can **only** approve the report if our amendments are adopted.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1914342)

- Uniquement applicable si le procédé et le four **acceptent** les matières premières agglomérées
  Applicable **only** when the process and the furnace can use pelletised raw materials
  ([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 3830643)

## More sentences

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

- Comment as-tu pu **accepter** de faire ça sans me demander mon avis ?
  How could you agree to doing that without consulting me?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5826422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5826422) [\#6556163](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6556163))

- Je m'étonne de ce que vous puissiez **accepter** cette proposition.
  I marvel how you could agree to the proposal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and BraveSentry · checked, community translation · [\#17969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17969) [\#9072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9072))

- Tu as intérêt à bien réfléchir avant d'**accepter** de faire ça.
  You'd better think twice before agreeing to do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by vlecomte and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6947126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6947126) [\#6949146](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6949146))

## Grammar

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