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Meaning: [know in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/know/). - Je veux vous **connaître**. I want to **know** you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#1825303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1825303) [\#12093232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12093232)) - --Et à quoi ça te sert-il de le **connaître**? “And what good does it do to **know** him?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29636) - et il leur recommanda sévèrement de ne pas le faire **connaître**, and commanded them that they should not make him **known**, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:16) - Je voudrais en **connaître** la raison. I would like to **know** why this is the case. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 199366) - Trois importateurs se sont fait **connaître**. Three importers made themselves **known**. ([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 2935013) ## views Used about 2 978 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 506 · UN documents ≈ 1 287). - J'aimerais **connaître** l'avis du commissaire à ce propos. I would be glad to hear the Commissioner's **views** on this. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1608502) - À cet égard, les parties intéressées suivantes ont fait **connaître** leur point de vue: In this regard, the following interested parties made their **views** known: ([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 451986) - Les États Membres doivent se voir offrir des possibilités égales de faire **connaître** leurs vues, conformément aux résolutions de l ' Assemblée générale. Member States must be given equal opportunities to provide their **views**, in accordance with resolutions of the General Assembly. ([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 16648459) - Nous avons hâte de **connaître** l'avis du Parlement à l'occasion du débat de ce jour et de la résolution que vous adopterez ensuite. We are looking forward to hearing Parliament's **views** during the debate today and the resolution that you will subsequently adopt. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1565051) - Les nouveaux médias comme l'Internet offrent à chacun la possibilité de faire **connaître** et de communiquer ses idées au monde entier, ce qui limite le monopole de la presse. New media like the Internet offer everyone the opportunity to air and disseminate their **views** worldwide and that restricts the press monopoly. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1766331) ## interested Used about 1 288 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 287). Meaning: [interested in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/interested/). - Il espérait du reste que de cette violente rencontre de Jondrette et de M. Leblanc quelque lumière jaillirait sur tout ce qu'il avait intérêt à **connaître**. Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was **interested** in learning. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17182) - Les délégations intéressées ont été invitées à se faire **connaître** auprès du représentant de la Norvège et à confirmer leur participation le plus tôt possible. **Interested** delegations were invited to contact the representative of Norway and to confirm their participation as soon as possible. ([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 17333418) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Mon rêve, ce serait de **connaître** un jour le Japon. My dream is to go to Japan someday. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anthaus and catakaoe · checked, community translation · [\#572465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/572465) [\#2657230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2657230)) - Il est le seul à **connaître** la vérité. He's the only one who knows the truth. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4430287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4430287) [\#8486364](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8486364)) - Je voulais **connaître** ton avis. I wanted to get your opinion. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and Lebensfreude · checked, community translation · [\#9105823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9105823) [\#8725535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8725535)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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