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# aperçu — French to English

How French *aperçu* 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: aperçu (28 231), aperçue (102), aperçues (75), aperçus (559). By style: everyday 62 · literary 30 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 508 · legal and administrative 703 · UN documents 27 650.

## overview

Used about 3 761 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 130 · legal and administrative ≈ 461 · UN documents ≈ 3 168).

- Nous conclurons toutefois notre **aperçu** par un exemple positif.
  We will conclude our **overview**, however, with a positive example.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2972164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2972164) [\#8485701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8485701))

- Le rapport SIPRI (Suède) donne chaque année un **aperçu** du commerce des armes conventionnelles.
  The SIPRI report from Sweden gives an annual **overview** of the trade in conventional weapons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1715297)

- B. **Aperçu** de la liste
  B. **Overview** of the list
  ([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 3812205)

- **Aperçu** des difficultés actuelles
  **Overview** of the ongoing challenges
  ([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 30164683)

- Avant de commencer, voici un **aperçu** de ce que nous avons appris la semaine dernière.
  Before we get started, here's an **overview** of what we learned last week.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#8893807](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8893807) [\#8915299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8915299))

## seen

Used about 3 205 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 24 · UN documents ≈ 3 168).

- Aucune étoile n'a été **aperçue** cette nuit-là.
  No star was **seen** that night.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adrien\_FR and RU · checked, community translation · [\#3474658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3474658) [\#11621783](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11621783))

- —En tout cas, nous n'en avons pas **aperçu** un seul jusqu'ici.
  "At any rate," he replied, "we have not **seen** any yet."
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2690)

- L’oiseau de proie n’en connaît pas le sentier, L’œil du vautour ne l’a point **aperçu**;
  That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye **seen** it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 28:7)

- Nous nous en sommes également **aperçu** à la suite des remarques formulées par M. Barroso aujourd’hui en plénière.
  That is something we have also **seen** following the clear observations made by Mr Barroso today here in plenary.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 632025)

- Elle a été **aperçue** pour la dernière fois alors qu &apos; elle quittait son travail à 17 h 30 le 18 août.
  She was last **seen** leaving work at 5.30 p.m. on 18 August.
  ([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 7277617)

## More sentences

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

- Je pense qu'ils m'ont **aperçu**.
  I think they saw me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by arnxy20 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2408198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2408198) [\#2473874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2473874))

- Mon copain a copié mes devoirs et le prof s'en est **aperçu**.
  My friend copied my homework and the teacher found out.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2199778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2199778) [\#2200144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2200144))

- On a **aperçu** son bateau.
  We caught sight of his boat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#286755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286755) [\#10897915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10897915))

## Grammar

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