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# agit — French to English

How French *agit* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: agit (136 759), agite (78), agites (2). By style: everyday 441 · literary 10 · biblical 46 · parliamentary 36 517 · legal and administrative 12 397 · UN documents 87 428.

## one

Used about 12 141 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 826 · legal and administrative ≈ 214 · UN documents ≈ 10 088). Meaning: [one in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/one/).

- Comment sais-je qu'il ne s'**agit** pas d'un autre de tes tours ?
  How do I know this isn't another **one** of your tricks?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3731602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3731602) [\#3923902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3923902))

- Quoi qu'il en soit, cette dernière mauvaise action eut sur lui un effet décisif; elle traversa brusquement ce chaos qu'il avait dans l'intelligence et le dissipa, mit d'un côté les épaisseurs obscures et de l'autre la lumière, et **agit** sur son âme, dans l'état où elle se trouvait, comme de certains réactifs chimiques agissent sur un mélange trouble en précipitant un élément et en clarifiant l'autre.
  However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and dispersed it, placed on **one** side the thick obscurity, and on the other the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating one element and clarifying the other.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2553)

- Car le mystère de l’iniquité **agit** déjà; il faut seulement que celui qui le retient encore ait disparu.
  For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is **one** who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TH 2:7)

- C'est une plate-forme idéale pour nous, en Europe, et il s'**agit** de l'utiliser aussi intensément que possible.
  It is an ideal platform for us in Europe, and it is **one** that we should exploit to the maximum.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2000309)

- On **agite** vigoureusement la suspension durant cinq minutes et on la laisse sédimenter durant au moins deux heures, mais pas plus de 24 heures.
  Rearing temperatures are optimal between 20 ± 2 °C, light / dark regime is not relevant for this species. Prey can be Typrophagus putrescentiae or Caloglyphus sp. mites (food mites should be handled with care since they could cause allergies in humans), but nematodes, enchytraeids and collembolans are also suited as prey items. Their source should be recorded. Population development can start with a single female because males develop in unfertilised eggs. Generations are largely overlapping. A female can live at least 100 days and can deposit approximately 100 eggs during its lifetime. A maximum oviposition rate is reached between 10 and 40 days (after becoming adults) and amounts to 2,2 eggs female– 1 day– 1. Developmental time from egg to adult female is approximately 20 days at 20 °C. More than **one** culture should be maintained and held beforehand. Rearing of Typrophagus putrescentiae: The mites are kept in a glass vessel filled with fine brewers yeast powder which is put in a plastic bucket filled with KNO3-solution in order to avoid escaping. The food mites are placed on top of this powder. Afterwards, they are carefully mixed with the powder (which has to be replaced twice a week) using a spatula. Synchronisation of culture: Specimens that are used in the test should be of similar age (ca. 7 days after reaching the adult stage). At a rearing temperature of 20 °C this is achieved by Transfer females to a clean rearing vessel and add sufficient food Allow for two to three days of egg laying, remove females
  ([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 3943028)

## when

Used about 7 611 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 826 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 282 · UN documents ≈ 4 483). Meaning: [when in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/when/).

- Il est imbattable lorsqu'il s'**agit** de débattre.
  He is second to none **when** it comes to debating.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#19981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19981) [\#2404332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2404332))

- Parle aux enfants d’Israël, et tu leur diras: Lorsqu’on fera des vœux, s’il s’**agit** de personnes, elles seront à l’Éternel d’après ton estimation.
  “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘**When** a man consecrates a person to the LORD in a vow, according to your valuation,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 27:2)

- Il en va de même pour notre grand partenaire commercial, la Chine, que nous épargnons constamment lorsqu'il s'**agit** de droits de l'homme.
  The same goes for our major trading partner China, which we spare time and again **when** it comes to human rights.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1206826)

- Dans le cas contraire, il s'**agit** d'informations à fournir dans tous les cas.
  **When** no letter precedes the figures, it means: information to be supplied in any case.
  ([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 5414969)

- Ce n &apos; est pas le gouvernement de la bourgeoisie, le gouvernement de l &apos; élite, qui lâche les chiens dès que la population s &apos; **agite**.
  It is not government of the bourgeoisie or of the elite **when** the people rise up and the thugs are pushed out.
  ([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 20069843)

## More sentences

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

- Comment sais-tu de quelle couleur il s'**agit** ?
  How do you know what color it is?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3592236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3592236) [\#3600159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3600159))

- Il s'**agit** peut-être de travail de recherche qu'a conduit mon secrétaire.
  This may be research my secretary did.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1855446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1855446) [\#1858202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858202))

- Il s'**agit** d'une nouvelle tendance.
  This is a new trend.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5753941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5753941) [\#12038118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12038118))

## 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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