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# besoins — French to English

How French *besoins* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: besoins (256 130). By style: everyday 63 · literary 6 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 7 413 · legal and administrative 13 392 · UN documents 235 240.

## needs

Used about 186 885 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 6 950 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 370 · UN documents ≈ 171 529). Forms: need, needs.

- Une femme a des **besoins**.
  A woman has **needs**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8396167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8396167) [\#11964080](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11964080))

- Pourvoyez aux **besoins** des saints. Exercez l’hospitalité.
  contributing to the **needs** of the saints, and given to hospitality.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 12:13)

- Des mesures spécifiques seront adoptées pour répondre à leurs **besoins** spécifiques.
  Their specific **needs** will be matched by specific measures.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1538701)

- BG: Examen des **besoins** économiques.
  BG: Economic **needs** test.
  ([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 319746)

- VI. Evaluation des **besoins** globaux pour 2012-2013 65
  VI. 2012-2013 Global **Needs** Assessment 63
  ([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 23798131)

## requirements

Used about 40 633 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 309 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 116 · UN documents ≈ 39 207).

- Pour les **besoins** de l'opération sur laquelle nous venons de nous expliquer, Paris a sous lui un autre Paris; un Paris d'égouts; lequel a ses rues, ses carrefours, ses places, ses impasses, ses artères, et sa circulation, qui est de la fange, avec la forme humaine de moins.
  For the **requirements** of the operation upon the subject of which we have just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of sewers; which has its streets, its crossroads, its squares, its blind-alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus the human form.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27311)

- En d'autres termes, les nouveaux pays espérerons et devraient obtenir un financement pour répondre à leurs **besoins**.
  In other words, the new countries will expect and should obtain funding for their **requirements**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 177396)

- Selon les **besoins** nutritionnels particuliers des personnes auxquelles ils sont destinés
  In accordance with the particular nutritional **requirements** of the persons for whom the products are intended
  ([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 1704504)

- **Besoins** du peuple palestinien en matière de logement
  14/9 Housing **requirements** for the Palestinian people 5 May 1993 23
  ([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 538446)

- Je citerai l'exemple de cette étude sur les **besoins** institutionnels et réglementaires de la Russie pour lutter contre le blanchiment d'argent, qui doit démarrer cette année encore.
  One example of such activities is a study into Russian institutional and regulatory **requirements** in combating money-laundering that will be launched later this year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2010192)

## family

Used about 4 913 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · UN documents ≈ 4 901). Meaning: [family in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/family/).

- Il a travaillé dur pour subvenir aux **besoins** de sa famille.
  He worked hard to provide for his **family**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#288099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/288099) [\#130528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130528))

- Il inclut des estimations moyennes régionales sur l &apos; utilisation des méthodes de contraception modernes et traditionnelles et sur les **besoins** non satisfaits en la matière.
  Estimated regional averages of contraceptive use relative to any method, any modern method and any traditional method as well as those for unmet need for **family** planning are included.
  ([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 24760800)

- Je gagne suffisamment d'argent pour subvenir aux **besoins** de ma famille.
  I earn enough money to support my **family**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8973410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8973410) [\#11418955](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11418955))

- Il travaille jour et nuit pour subvenir aux **besoins** de sa famille.
  He works day and night to provide for his **family**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1656194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1656194) [\#11179959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11179959))

- Il a des revenus suffisants pour subvenir aux **besoins** de sa famille.
  He has a sufficient income to support his **family**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by franlexcois and CK · checked, community translation · [\#294460](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294460) [\#4992710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4992710))

## meet

Used about 279 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 279). Meaning: [meet in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/meet/).

- Le marché intérieur nécessite une amélioration de la comparabilité des statistiques pour répondre aux **besoins** communautaires.
  The internal market requires improved statistical comparability to **meet** Community requirements.
  ([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 1486153)

## More sentences

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

- Trouve un boulot, de façon à pouvoir subvenir aux **besoins** de ta femme et de tes enfants !
  Get a job so you can support your wife and kids.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1972629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1972629) [\#1973324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1973324))

- Imagine, pour les **besoins** de la discussion, une tribu où l'inceste entre une mère et son fils serait toléré.
  Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#19990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19990) [\#784480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/784480))

- Le gouvernement est un instrument de la sagesse humaine destiné à pourvoir aux **besoins** humains. Les hommes disposent du droit à ce que ces **besoins** soient pourvus par cette sagesse.
  Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1856700](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1856700) [\#1858102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858102))

## Grammar

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