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# appuyer — French to English

How French *appuyer* 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: appuyaient (1 243), appuyait (2 512), appuye (2), appuyent (1), appuyer (91 910), appuyez (59), appuyons (6 309), appuyé (23 484), appuyée (6 222), appuyées (3 433), appuyés (5 274). By style: everyday 124 · literary 28 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 2 932 · legal and administrative 2 610 · UN documents 134 739.

## supported

Used about 107 385 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 496 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 162 · UN documents ≈ 104 721). 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))

- La nature de la roche le veut ainsi, et l'instinct est d'accord avec la logique pour **appuyer** ma conviction.
  The nature of the rock assures me of this, and instinct agrees with logic to **support** my conviction.
  ([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 1876)

- 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)

- C'est simplement pour **appuyer**...
  I would simply like to **support**....
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1637653)

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- Tout ce que tu dois faire est d'**appuyer** sur ce bouton rouge.
  All you have to do is push this red button.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#972886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/972886) [\#982425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/982425))

- Tu as juste besoin d'**appuyer** sur ce bouton pour prendre une photo.
  You just need to press this button to take a picture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2054009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2054009) [\#8553270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8553270))

- Tu n'as qu'à **appuyer** sur le bouton.
  You only have to press the button.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8964551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8964551) [\#4750900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4750900))

## 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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