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# approuvé — French to English

How French *approuvé* 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: approuvé (95 014), approuvée (22 155), approuvées (22 450), approuvés (27 196). By style: everyday 33 · literary 1 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 6 686 · legal and administrative 17 041 · UN documents 143 048.

## approved

Used about 116 496 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 656 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 467 · UN documents ≈ 98 346). Meaning: [approved in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/approved/).

- Notre requête a été **approuvée**.
  Our request was **approved**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4495704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4495704) [\#6285998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6285998))

- Gavroche, qui avait assisté à toute la scène et tout **approuvé** d'un hochement de tête silencieux, s'approcha de Javert et lui dit:
  Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had **approved** of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and said to him:—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24143)

- Car ce n’est pas celui qui se recommande lui-même qui est **approuvé**, c’est celui que le Seigneur recommande.
  For it isn’t he who commends himself who is **approved**, but whom the Lord commends.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 10:18)

- (Le procès-verbal est **approuvé**)
  (The Minutes were **approved**)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 103930)

- les modifications **approuvées** visées au point 3 5);
  the change referred to in point 3(5), as **approved**;
  ([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 4966453)

## agreed

Used about 4 637 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 592 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 065 · UN documents ≈ 2 980). Meaning: [agreed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/agreed/).

- Ce qui n’est pas **approuvé** maintenant pourra être décidé plus tard à la majorité qualifiée.
  What cannot be **agreed** upon now can be decided later by qualified majority.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 580264)

- Le Danemark les a **approuvées** le 22 février 2013.
  Denmark **agreed** to it on 22 February 2013.
  ([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 2794350)

- Le Comité a constaté qu’aucune procédure détaillée n’avait été **approuvée** et publiée.
  The Board found that no detailed performance assessment procedures had been **agreed** and documented.
  ([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 4567925)

- Voici nos réponses, réponses **approuvées** par le Parlement et par les parties concernées.
  Here are our responses, the responses **agreed** by Parliament and by the parties in question.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 674946)

- Ces délais ont été **approuvés** par le Comité mixte de 2015.
  These deadlines were **agreed** by the Joint Committee of 2015.
  ([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 4497873)

## amendments

Used about 1 043 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 209 · legal and administrative ≈ 89 · UN documents ≈ 745).

- Les amendements **approuvés** en commission vont dans ce sens.
  The **amendments** adopted in committee are along these lines.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 460673)

- Toute modification proposée du programme sectoriel pluriannuel doit être **approuvée** par la commission mixte.
  All proposed **amendments** to the multiannual sectoral programme require approval by the Joint Committee.
  ([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 132928)

- Cela dit, il importe de faire progresser les divers éléments de la réforme pour en assurer la mise en oeuvre rapide une fois qu’auront été **approuvées** les réformes constitutionnelles.
  It is, however, important to proceed with the various elements of the reform so as to ensure that it is swiftly implemented once the constitutional **amendments** have been adopted.
  ([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 4532840)

- Il suffit d'analyser le contenu des amendements **approuvés** pour démentir cette affirmation.
  You simply have to study the content of the **amendments** tabled to see that this statement is false.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 211116)

- Bien entendu, je veux affirmer que j'appuie les amendements proposés et **approuvés** à l'unanimité de la commission juridique.
  Of course I would add that I continue to support this committee' s **amendments**, which they adopted unanimously.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 6154)

## More sentences

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

- Ta famille a-t-elle **approuvé** ton mariage ?
  Did your parents approve of your marriage?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#54286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/54286) [\#1421806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1421806))

- Le projet de loi a été **approuvé** au dernier moment.
  The bill passed at the last moment.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#44007](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/44007) [\#527818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/527818))

- Son père n'aurait jamais **approuvé** ses fiançailles avec une fille qui ne partageait pas les mêmes croyances religieuses que sa famille.
  His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ANH\_DAO and adiante19 · checked, community translation · [\#1983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1983) [\#3794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3794))

## Grammar

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