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# atteindre — French to English

How French *atteindre* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: atteindre (104 384), atteindres (1). By style: everyday 129 · literary 11 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 9 080 · legal and administrative 10 974 · UN documents 84 181.

## achieve

Used about 30 021 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 4 351 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 030 · UN documents ≈ 20 616). Forms: achieve, achieving. Meaning: [achieve in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/achieve/).

- Nous devons **atteindre** notre objectif à tout prix.
  We must **achieve** our aim at any price.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and CM · checked, community translation · [\#23275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23275) [\#1132225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1132225))

- Tel est l’objectif décisif que nous devons **atteindre**.
  That is the decisive goal that we must **achieve**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 860789)

- moyens nécessaires pour **atteindre** les objectifs spécifiques,
  Means necessary to **achieve** targets;
  ([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 4213343)

- L &apos; ONUDI étudie également la possibilité d &apos; **atteindre** cet objectif grâce au système SAP.
  UNIDO was also assessing the possibility of **achieving** the objective with the SAP system.
  ([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 24920227)

- Marie n'épargnera rien pour **atteindre** son objectif.
  Mary will stop at nothing to **achieve** her goal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1397754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1397754) [\#1436907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1436907))

## goals

Used about 18 900 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 18 898).

- J'espère qu'ils n'auront pas recours à la violence pour **atteindre** leurs buts.
  I hope they don't resort to violence to accomplish their **goals**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#305034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305034) [\#2074871](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2074871))

- Sans eux, nous ne serions pas arrivés aussi loin, et sans eux nous ne réussirons pas à **atteindre** nos objectifs.
  Without them, we would not have come this far, and we will not succeed in reaching our **goals** without them.
  ([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 11563201)

- À cette fin, **atteindre** les objectifs fixés exige une approche multisectorielle et des efforts conjugués sur tous les plans.
  To that end, meeting the **goals** requires multisectoral approaches and combined efforts across the board.
  ([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 16551200)

- f) Encourager la création de partenariats pour **atteindre** les buts fixés dans le domaine de l &apos; environnement et mobiliser des ressources.
  (f) Fostering partnerships for achieving environmental **goals** and resource mobilization.
  ([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 30005868)

- e) La quantification des normes minimales à respecter pour aider à **atteindre** les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement;
  (e) Quantification of minimum standards to support the realization of the Millennium Development **Goals**;
  ([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 23900167)

## objectives

Used about 13 464 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 324 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 829 · UN documents ≈ 10 308). Forms: objective, objectives.

- Ils ne prennent pas conscience qu'ils sont utilisés comme des pions pour **atteindre** un objectif politique plus large.
  They don't realize that they're being used as pawns to obtain a wider political **objective**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#717226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/717226) [\#801680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801680))

- En revanche, les États membres choisiront leur propre voie pour **atteindre** ces objectifs avec le soutien du FSE.
  However, Member States will choose their own individual paths to follow in order to reach these **objectives** with the support of the ESF.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1409255)

- A. Soutien utilisé pour **atteindre** les objectifs liés au changement climatique dans l'accord de partenariat
  Support used for climate change **objectives** Fund
  ([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 3587563)

- Le projet d &apos; établissement doit permettre d &apos; **atteindre** ces objectifs éducatifs et pédagogiques.
  626. The initial project should make it possible to attain these educational and pedagogical **objectives**.
  ([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 7966541)

- D'abord, la démonstration que l'objectif de l'accès à la formation continue, pour tous les travailleurs de l'Union, reste à **atteindre**.
  Firstly, it shows that the **objective** of access to continuing training for all workers in the Union remains to be achieved.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1800073)

## reach

Used about 6 937 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 568 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 143 · UN documents ≈ 5 154). Meaning: [reach in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/reach/).

- Comment puis-je l'**atteindre** ?
  How do I **reach** it?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by martin9 and say123 · checked, community translation · [\#13158020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13158020) [\#1496159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1496159))

- --Hé bien! fils, hurlait un perclus en faisant effort pour l'**atteindre** de sa béquille, nous jetteras-tu encore des sorts du haut des tours de Notre-Dame?
  “He, good, my son!” howled a cripple, making an effort to **reach** him with his crutch, “will you cast any more spells on us from the top of the towers of Notre-Dame?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3537)

- Et comme le port n’était pas bon pour hiverner, la plupart furent d’avis de le quitter pour tâcher d’**atteindre** Phénix, port de Crète qui regarde le sud-ouest et le nord-ouest, afin d’y passer l’hiver.
  Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could **reach** Phoenix and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:12)

- Pour **atteindre** un niveau aussi bas face au dollar, il faudrait que le cours de l'euro chute en-dessous de 0,6 pour un dollar.
  In order to **reach** such a low level in relation to the dollar, the rate of the euro would have to fall below 0.6 to the dollar.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 52511)

- Laisser l’UUT **atteindre** la température de fonctionnement (environ 20 minutes).
  Allow the UUT to **reach** operating temperature (approximately 20 minutes).
  ([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 1707171)

## necessary

Used about 229 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 229). Meaning: [necessary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/necessary/).

- La définition des éventuelles mesures d'atténuation nécessaires pour **atteindre** le niveau de sécurité cible proposé prend en considération les possibilités suivantes:
  The identification of the possible mitigation measures **necessary** to meet the proposed target level of safety shall consider the following possibilities:
  ([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 4966798)

## go

Used about 193 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 189). Meaning: [go in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/go/).

- Nous avons encore plus de la moitié du chemin à parcourir pour **atteindre** le sommet. Es-tu vraiment déjà fatigué ?
  We still have more than halfway to **go** to get to the top of the mountain. Are you really already exhausted?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1167467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1167467) [\#1168012](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1168012))

- À la rigueur, en revenant un peu sur ses pas, en s'engageant dans le couloir des Filles-du-Calvaire, à la condition de ne pas hésiter à la patte d'oie souterraine du carrefour Boucherat, en prenant le corridor Saint-Louis, puis, à gauche, le boyau Saint-Gilles, puis en tournant à droite et en évitant la galerie Saint-Sébastien, il eût pu gagner l'égout Amelot, et de là, pourvu qu'il ne s'égarât point dans l'espèce d'F qui est sous la Bastille, **atteindre** l'issue sur la Seine près de l'Arsenal.
  In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did not **go** astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27834)

- Oui, elle a été mise en sourdine en 2009-2010 et devrait **atteindre** sa vitesse de croisière en 2011, tout comme la lutte contre la crise.
  Yes, that was low-level in 2009-2010. It should **go** at cruising speed by 2011, as should anti-crisis delivery.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1364434)

## More sentences

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

- Il n'y a aucun moyen d'**atteindre** l'île autre que le bateau.
  There is no way of reaching the island other than by boat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CM · checked, community translation · [\#273408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/273408) [\#813521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/813521))

- Nous nous efforçons d'**atteindre** la perfection.
  We strive for perfection.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4501370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4501370) [\#10609380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10609380))

- Le Concorde était capable d'**atteindre** des vitesses supersoniques.
  The Concorde was capable of reaching supersonic speeds.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5859578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859578) [\#11966640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11966640))

## Grammar

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