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# connu — French to English

How French *connu* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: connu (28 889), connue (11 137), connues (7 988), connus (11 302). By style: everyday 340 · literary 25 · biblical 100 · parliamentary 5 620 · legal and administrative 9 021 · UN documents 44 210.

## known

Used about 31 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 196 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 47 · parliamentary ≈ 2 576 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 189 · UN documents ≈ 21 644). Meaning: [known in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/known/).

- C'est une phrase **connue**.
  It's a well **known** saying.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11957995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11957995) [\#8323484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8323484))

- L'Henrietta, bien **connue**.
  The “Henrietta,” well **known**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2836)

- Mais si quelqu’un aime Dieu, celui-là est **connu** de lui.
  But anyone who loves God is **known** by him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 8:3)

- Le lieu est **connu**.
  The place is **known**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1067501)

- Erreurs **connues** Feader — SIGC
  **Known** errors EAFRD IACS
  ([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 5343193)

## well

Used about 632 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 117 · legal and administrative ≈ 47 · UN documents ≈ 461). Meaning: [well in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/well/).

- L'as-tu bien **connue** ?
  Did you know her **well**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1920823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1920823) [\#1920978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1920978))

- C'est là une erreur qui peut mener, hélas, à des dérives bien **connues**.
  That is a mistake which, as we **well** know, could unfortunately take us down a very dangerous path.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 118650)

- Les méthodes in vivo d'étude de l'absorption cutanée sont bien **connues** et fournissent des informations pharmacocinétiques sur un large éventail d'espèces animales.
  In vivo methods on skin absorption are **well** established and provide pharmacokinetic information in a range of animal species.
  ([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 1534785)

- Les liens entre le VIH et la santé sexuelle et procréative sont à présent bien **connus**.
  44. The relationships between HIV and sexual and reproductive health are now **well** recognized.
  ([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 21033399)

- L'avez-vous bien **connu** ?
  Did you know him **well**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1920822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1920822) [\#1920988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1920988))

## More sentences

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

- James a regretté d'avoir **connu** Amanda.
  James regretted knowing Amanda.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11504239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11504239) [\#11511096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11511096))

- Elle a **connu** de meilleurs jours.
  She has seen better days.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#308824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/308824) [\#924275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/924275))

- Ses fables ont fait de Hans Christian Andersen, le plus **connu** de tous les Danois du monde, une icône de la littérature mondiale.
  His fairy tales made Hans Christian Andersen, the most famous Dane in the world, an icon of world literature.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#1304082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1304082) [\#1303946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1303946))

## 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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