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# achevé — French to English

How French *achevé* 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: achevé (25 896), achevée (12 196), achevées (4 176), achevés (5 711). By style: everyday 47 · literary 10 · biblical 76 · parliamentary 953 · legal and administrative 2 487 · UN documents 44 406.

## completed

Used about 29 350 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 601 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 680 · UN documents ≈ 27 060). Forms: complete, completed.

- La première étape est **achevée**.
  The first stage is **complete**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and tinowls · checked, community translation · [\#4193795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4193795) [\#4218268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4218268))

- La batterie, qui, **achevée**, eût été presque une redoute, était disposée derrière un mur de jardin très bas, revêtu à la hâte d'une chemise de sacs de sable et d'un large talus de terre.
  The battery, which, if **completed**, would have been almost a redoubt, was ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags of sand and a large slope of earth.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7000)

- Ce Scheschbatsar est donc venu, et il a posé les fondements de la maison de Dieu à Jérusalem; depuis lors jusqu’à présent elle se construit, et elle n’est pas **achevée**.
  Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not **completed**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 5:16)

- Cette tâche n'est pas **achevée**.
  This work is not **complete**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 119556)

- Nombre de leçons en tandem **achevées**
  Number of **completed** tandem lessons
  ([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 4919483)

## concluded

Used about 5 018 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79 · legal and administrative ≈ 313 · UN documents ≈ 4 626).

- Les tests devraient être **achevés** le 11 novembre.
  The tests should be **concluded** on 11 November.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1288950)

- Ces négociations ont été **achevées**.
  The negotiations have been **concluded**.
  ([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 3481037)

- Par conséquent, toutes les négociations devraient être **achevées** au plus tard le 1er octobre.
  Accordingly, all negotiations should be **concluded** by 1 October.
  ([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 21189954)

- Ces évaluations n' ont toujours pas été **achevées**.
  The evaluations have not yet been **concluded**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 228305)

- L &apos; Assemblée a ainsi **achevé** la phase actuelle de son examen du point 104 de l &apos; ordre du jour.
  The Assembly has thus **concluded** this stage of its consideration of agenda item 104.
  ([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 21594097)

## finished

Used about 902 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 61 · parliamentary ≈ 35 · legal and administrative ≈ 91 · UN documents ≈ 694). Meaning: [finished in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/finished/).

- Ils ont **achevé** leur repas.
  They **finished** their meal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#306885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306885) [\#1432516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1432516))

- Le chemin de fer n'est point **achevé**...
  The railway isn’t **finished**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 684)

- Après avoir **achevé** de bâtir la maison,
  So Solomon built the house and **finished** it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 6:14)

- En fait, lorsqu'elle sera **achevée**, elle coûtera plus cher.
  In fact, by the time it is **finished**, it will cost more.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1967829)

- Les travaux devaient être **achevés** en décembre 2011.
  The works should be **finished** by December 2011.
  ([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 2793921)

## More sentences

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

- Ce bâtiment est presque **achevé**.
  This building is near completion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#59444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59444) [\#11803096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11803096))

- Ayant **achevé** de lui parler, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.
  And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#7853981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7853981) [\#8589752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8589752))

- Le programme s'est **achevé** à 19 h.
  The program ended at 7:00 p.m.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by maydoo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4356242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4356242) [\#3366542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3366542))

## Grammar

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