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# acquis — French to English

How French *acquis* 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: acquis (34 222). By style: everyday 38 · literary 1 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 3 729 · legal and administrative 7 906 · UN documents 22 518.

## acquired

Used about 8 946 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 865 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 788 · UN documents ≈ 3 284). Forms: acquired, acquis. Meaning: [acquired in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/acquired/).

- Bouteflika a **acquis** plus de pouvoir.
  Bouteflika **acquired** more power.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10088263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10088263) [\#11941260](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11941260))

- Ces symptômes d'une violente préoccupation morale avaient surtout **acquis** un haut degré d'intensité à l'époque où se passe cette histoire.
  These symptoms of a violent moral preoccupation, had **acquired** an especially high degree of intensity at the epoch when this story takes place.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2339)

- Abram prit Saraï, sa femme, et Lot, fils de son frère, avec tous les biens qu’ils possédaient et les serviteurs qu’ils avaient **acquis** à Charan. Ils partirent pour aller dans le pays de Canaan, et ils arrivèrent au pays de Canaan.
  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had **acquired** in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 12:5)

- Quels changements proposez-vous à cet égard pour l'**acquis** communautaire?
  What changes do you propose to the Community **acquis** in this regard?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 932980)

- du fonds de solidarité vieillesse par rapport aux droits **acquis**
  the Old Age Solidarity Fund in respect of **acquired** rights
  ([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 1922387)

## alcoholic

Used about 2 471 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 2 471). Meaning: [alcoholic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/alcoholic/).

- ayant un titre alcoométrique **acquis** excédant 0,5 % vol
  Of an actual **alcoholic** strength by volume exceeding 0,5 %
  ([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 198203)

- ayant un titre alcoométrique volumique **acquis** excédant 15 % vol
  Of an actual **alcoholic** strength by volume exceeding 15 % vol
  ([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 4692220)

- ayant un titre alcoométrique volumique **acquis** n'excédant pas 18 % vol
  Of an actual **alcoholic** strength by volume of 18 % vol or less
  ([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 1903831)

- ayant un titre alcoométrique volumique **acquis** n'excédant pas 15 % vol
  Of an actual **alcoholic** strength by volume not exceeding 15 % vol
  ([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 1903812)

- ayant un titre alcoométrique massique **acquis** n'excédant pas 11,85 % mas
  Of an actual **alcoholic** strength by mass not exceeding 11,85 % mas
  ([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 3289092)

## strength

Used about 166 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 165). Meaning: [strength in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strength/).

- Vous vous réjouissez de ce qui n’est que néant, Vous dites: N’est-ce pas par notre force Que nous avons **acquis** de la puissance?
  you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own **strength**?’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · AMO 6:13)

- titre alcoométrique volumique **acquis**,
  Actual alcohol **strength** by volume,
  ([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 4598526)

## More sentences

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

- Malgré l'adversité, cet homme ingénieux a **acquis** une renommée mondiale.
  Despite adversity, the ingenious man achieved worldwide fame.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and fishda · checked, community translation · [\#19888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19888) [\#1527657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1527657))

- Nous ne devons rien tenir pour **acquis**.
  We must not take anything for granted.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5848301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5848301) [\#12038786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12038786))

- Bien mal **acquis** ne profite jamais.
  Ill-gotten gains are short-lived.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#473868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/473868) [\#473889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/473889))

## Grammar

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