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# appuyé — French to English

How French *appuyé* 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: appuyé (23 484), appuyée (6 222), appuyées (3 433), appuyés (5 274). By style: everyday 43 · literary 16 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 672 · legal and administrative 559 · UN documents 37 114.

## supported

Used about 31 165 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 312 · legal and administrative ≈ 309 · UN documents ≈ 30 542). Forms: support, supported.

- De nombreux leaders ont **appuyé** le compromis.
  Many leaders **supported** the compromise.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#805388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805388) [\#3399267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3399267))

- Le matelas, posé en travers, **appuyé** par le bas sur deux perches à sécher le linge, était soutenu en haut par deux cordes qui, de loin, semblaient deux ficelles et qui se rattachaient à des clous plantés dans les chambranles de la mansarde.
  The mattress, placed cross-wise, **supported** at the bottom on two poles for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails planted in the window frames.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26061)

- Les chambres latérales étaient les unes à côté des autres, au nombre de trente, et il y avait trois étages; elles entraient dans un mur construit pour ces chambres tout autour de la maison, elles y étaient **appuyées** sans entrer dans le mur même de la maison.
  The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in each story. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be **supported** and not penetrate the wall of the house.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 41:6)

- Le Parlement a toujours **appuyé** cette idée.
  Parliament has **supported** this all along.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1133871)

- DSM a **appuyé** la demande.
  DSM **supported** the request.
  ([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 673207)

## backed

Used about 1 062 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 70 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 967).

- Tous ses amis ont **appuyé** son projet.
  All his friends **backed** his plan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#287732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/287732) [\#4873062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4873062))

- Une politique ferme devra toutefois être **appuyée** par des moyens financiers suffisants.
  However, a firm policy will need to be **backed** up by sufficient financial means.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1405357)

- Cet argument a également été **appuyé** par cinq ONG environnementales.
  This claim was also **backed** by five environmental NGOs.
  ([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 4270322)

- 114. Les systèmes de suivi des résultats des projets doivent être **appuyés** par le recours aux technologies de l &apos; information afin de renforcer leur efficacité.
  Effective project performance monitoring systems must be **backed** up by the use of information technologies.
  ([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 21162713)

- Toutes ses amies ont **appuyé** son projet.
  All his friends **backed** his plan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#287732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/287732) [\#4873065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4873065))

## More sentences

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

- Je me suis souvenu que j'étais en retard et j'ai **appuyé** sur le champignon.
  I remembered that I was late and stepped on the gas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7872455](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7872455) [\#10712015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10712015))

- La voiture s'est arrêtée parce que tu n'as pas **appuyé** sur l'embrayage.
  The car stalled because you didn't step on the clutch.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#587927](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/587927) [\#589681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/589681))

- Tom était **appuyé** contre la balustrade du porche, un verre à la main.
  Tom was leaning against the porch railing with a drink in his hand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1892644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1892644) [\#10781375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10781375))

## Grammar

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