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# accorder — French to English

How French *accorder* 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: accordaient (1 010), accordait (1 956), accorde (25 487), accordent (11 050), accorder (71 398), accordes (10), accordez (120), accordons (1 488), accordé (34 824), accordée (54 880), accordées (20 054), accordés (13 535). By style: everyday 167 · literary 10 · biblical 86 · parliamentary 15 466 · legal and administrative 43 668 · UN documents 176 415.

## granted

Used about 37 217 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 398 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 193 · UN documents ≈ 20 611). Meaning: [granted in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/granted/).

- Elles ont **accordé** une interview au journaliste.
  They **granted** the journalist an interview.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · [\#3652070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3652070) [\#2899060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2899060))

- --**Accordé**», dit le président.
  “**Granted**,” said the president.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4980)

- Tu m’as **accordé** ta grâce avec la vie, Tu m’as conservé par tes soins et sous ta garde.
  You have **granted** me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 10:12)

- L'aide est **accordée** de manière impartiale.
  The aid is **granted** impartially.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 413910)

- Prêt **accordé** par l'intermédiaire d’Inesga
  The loan **granted** through INESGA
  ([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 584397)

## attention

Used about 23 376 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 337 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 522 · UN documents ≈ 18 515). Meaning: [attention in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/attention/).

- Tu devrais **accorder** plus d'attention à ce qu'il dit.
  You should pay more **attention** to what he says.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sushiman and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#15816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15816) [\#391782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391782))

- Nous devons **accorder** davantage d'attention à cela.
  We need to pay more **attention** to that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1787145)

- **accordent** une attention particulière à l'absorption par la peau,
  must pay particular **attention** to the dermal absorption;
  ([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 2058527)

- Tenez compte de ses préoccupations et **accordez**-y la plus grande attention.
  Hear their concerns. Pay close **attention**.
  ([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 24029416)

- Elle **accorde** trop d'attention à des choses sans importance.
  She pays too much **attention** to irrelevant things.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and megamanenm · checked, community translation · [\#9752659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9752659) [\#12650313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12650313))

## importance

Used about 17 727 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 550 · legal and administrative ≈ 101 · UN documents ≈ 16 069). Meaning: [importance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/importance/).

- Il **accorde** de l'importance à cette affaire.
  He attaches **importance** to this matter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#1238823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1238823) [\#1240711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1240711))

- Nous **accordons** également une grande importance aux mesures volontaires.
  We now also attach great **importance** to non-compulsion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1797987)

- En adoptant cette attitude, la Grèce a montré qu’elle n’avait pas l’intention de garantir le paiement du prix de la vente par les salariés, ce qui a radicalement modifié la situation des salariés: au lieu d’être contraints à payer le prix de l’acquisition, les salariés n’ont pas été obligés d’investir cette somme de leur argent; il en résulte que, participant à la gestion des chantiers navals, ils **accordaient** moins d’importance à la préservation et à l’augmentation de la valeur des actions et au rétablissement de la viabilité économique (et ils s’intéressaient plutôt à préserver l’emploi et les conditions de travail).
  Instead of having to pay a purchase price, the employees would not have to put at risk this amount of own money. This means that, when participating in the management of the yard, they attached less **importance** to the preservation and the increase of the value of the shares and the restoration of financial viability (and more to the preservation of the employment and of the working conditions).
  ([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 1696459)

- Nous **accordons** une grande importance à cette disposition.
  We attach great **importance** to this provision.
  ([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 219234)

- Il a **accordé** une grande importance à la propreté.
  He attached great **importance** to cleanliness.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#13807126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13807126) [\#2902240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2902240))

## give

Used about 16 523 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · biblical ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 2 157 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 710 · UN documents ≈ 12 576). Forms: give, given. Meaning: [give in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/give/).

- Je te l'**accorde**.
  I'll **give** you that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3916045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3916045) [\#8635386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8635386))

- Si le père refuse de la lui **accorder**, il paiera en argent la valeur de la dot des vierges.
  If her father utterly refuses to **give** her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 22:17)

- Seul l'Iran lui **accorde** encore ouvertement son appui.
  Only Iran continues openly to **give** aid.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1645965)

- au statut **accordé** aux résidus de cultures en tant que coproduits.
  the status **given** to agricultural crop residues as co-products.
  ([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 1742414)

- iii) Priorité devrait être **accordée** à l &apos; application du droit commun.
  (iii) The implementation of the ordinary law should be **given** priority.
  ([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 4017535)

## More sentences

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

- Peux-tu m'**accorder** une faveur ?
  Could you do me a favor?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#485496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/485496) [\#551480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/551480))

- J'ai appris à ne pas **accorder** trop de crédit à ce qu'il dit.
  I've learned not to put much stock in what he says.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#676298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676298) [\#809237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809237))

- Peux-tu m'**accorder** quelques minutes ?
  Could you spare me a few minutes?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Romira and CK · checked, community translation · [\#72988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72988) [\#181420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181420))

## 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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