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# approuver — French to English

How French *approuver* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: approuvaient (375), approuvait (1 085), approuve (26 451), approuvent (1 904), approuver (27 199), approuves (46), approuvez (47), approuvons (1 624), approuvé (95 014), approuvée (22 155), approuvées (22 450), approuvés (27 196). By style: everyday 75 · literary 4 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 14 158 · legal and administrative 21 318 · UN documents 189 981.

## approved

Used about 105 136 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 57 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 5 355 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 239 · UN documents ≈ 83 477). Forms: approve, approved. Meaning: [approved in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/approved/).

- J'**approuve** ton plan.
  I **approve** of your plan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#17259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17259) [\#3411211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3411211))

- --Oui ... je t'**approuve**.
  “Yes, I **approve**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1650)

- 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)

- Il convient d'**approuver** l'accord,
  The Agreement should be **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 805788)

## More sentences

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

- Le parlement doit désormais **approuver** la motion.
  Parliament must now support the motion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6579026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6579026) [\#6575415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6575415))

- J'ai hésité à **approuver**.
  I hesitated to agree.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12450625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12450625) [\#10062026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10062026))

- J'**approuve** son projet.
  I agree with his plan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and CK · checked, community translation · [\#285942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285942) [\#15322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15322))

## 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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