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# composé — French to English

How French *composé* 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: composé (32 022), composée (16 833), composées (3 625), composés (20 049). By style: everyday 99 · literary 7 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 1 610 · legal and administrative 16 356 · UN documents 54 438.

## compound

Used about 14 491 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 277 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 856 · UN documents ≈ 9 357). Forms: compound, compounds. Meaning: [compound in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/compound/).

- C'est un **composé** à haute énergie et d'une forte instabilité. Ne le fabrique pas !
  That's a highly energetic and unstable **compound**. Don't make it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2083077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2083077) [\#2083302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2083302))

- Circulation des aliments **composés** pour animaux (débat)
  Circulation of **compound** feedingstuffs (debate)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 890779)

- Autres **composés** organo-inorganiques
  Other organo-inorganic **compounds**
  ([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 2162762)

- 1707 **COMPOSÉ** DU THALLIUM, N.S.A.
  1707 THALLIUM **COMPOUND**, N.O.S.
  ([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 7564334)

- Le monoxyde de carbone est une substance mortelle qui résulte de la combustion incomplète de **composés** carbonés.
  Carbon monoxide is a poisonous substance formed by the incomplete combustion of carbon **compounds**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and fcbond · checked, community translation · [\#328645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328645) [\#139931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139931))

## composed

Used about 13 681 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 176 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 130 · UN documents ≈ 11 341). Meaning: [composed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/composed/).

- Cette musique fut **composée** par Bach.
  This music was **composed** by Bach.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#454475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/454475) [\#453979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453979))

- Une bordée l'assaillit, **composée** d'une huée quadruple.
  He was assailed by a broadside, **composed** of a quadruple howl.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23299)

- Comment fonctionnera-t-elle si elle est **composée** de presque trente membres ?
  How will it function if it is going to be **composed** of nearly 30 members?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2022057)

- du présent lot **composé** de:
  of this consignment **composed** of:
  ([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 3584209)

- La Commission est ainsi **composée** :
  The Commission is **composed** of the following:
  ([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 8089959)

## members

Used about 7 006 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 84 · legal and administrative ≈ 682 · UN documents ≈ 6 238).

- Ce groupe est **composé** de six membres.
  The group is made up of six **members**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by toutflou and CK · checked, community translation · [\#50523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/50523) [\#486607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486607))

- À quoi va ressembler une Union **composée** de plus de 25 membres ?
  What will a Union comprising more than 25 **Members** actually look like?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2039219)

- OP **composée** de moins de 10 membres
  PO has less than 10 **members**
  ([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 5293924)

- Les CEL sont **composées** de sept membres nommés selon la procédure suivante :
  1305. An LGEC consist of seven **members** who are appointed according to the following procedure:
  ([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 11755252)

- Le comité est **composé** de douze membres.
  The committee consists of twelve **members**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cirilo and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#28267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28267) [\#713321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/713321))

## consisting

Used about 6 096 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 50 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 641 · UN documents ≈ 3 402).

- Le toki pona est une langue construite minimaliste **composée** uniquement de 123 mots.
  Toki Pona is a minimalist constructed language **consisting** only of 123 words.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#2315678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2315678) [\#5412475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5412475))

- Nous sommes tous au courant de l'idée d'une présidence annuelle, **composée** en fait de trois pays membres: un grand, un moyen et un petit.
  We have all heard of proposals for one-year EU Presidencies **consisting** of a large, a medium-sized and a small Member State.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1794094)

- Film multicouches **composé** de:
  Multilayer film **consisting** of:
  ([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 4643499)

- 5.2.4.1. une marque d &apos; homologation internationale **composée**,
  An international approval mark **consisting** of:
  ([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 9362488)

- Le toki pona est une langue construite minimaliste **composée** uniquement de cent vingt-trois mots.
  Toki Pona is a minimalist constructed language **consisting** only of 123 words.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#2315678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2315678) [\#5412476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5412476))

## More sentences

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

- Quelle est la différence entre le nouveau Ministre-Président et un combiné téléphonique ? Le combiné, on peut le raccrocher si on a **composé** un faux numéro.
  What's the difference between the new minister-president and a telephone? You can hang up the telephone if you dial a wrong number.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11618427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11618427) [\#816464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/816464))

- Le film alimentaire est **composé** de polyéthylène.
  Cling film is made from polyethylene.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and danepo · checked, community translation · [\#561476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/561476) [\#567793](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567793))

- Le dessert était **composé** de crème fouettée.
  The dessert was made with whipped cream.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#39468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39468) [\#391042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391042))

## 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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