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# consacré — French to English

How French *consacré* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: consacré (55 381), consacrée (44 101), consacrées (27 965), consacrés (35 188). By style: everyday 48 · literary 3 · biblical 84 · parliamentary 4 465 · legal and administrative 4 396 · UN documents 153 639.

## devoted

Used about 19 413 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 628 · legal and administrative ≈ 366 · UN documents ≈ 18 405). Meaning: [devoted in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/devoted/).

- Elle a **consacré** sa vie à la musique.
  She **devoted** her life to music.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#312740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/312740) [\#11908717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11908717))

- Et quand l’acquéreur en sortira au jubilé, ce champ sera **consacré** à l’Éternel, comme un champ qui a été dévoué; il deviendra la propriété du sacrificateur.
  but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a **devoted** field. It shall be owned by the priests.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 27:21)

- Deux autres réunions seront **consacrées** au sujet en septembre.
  Two more meetings will be **devoted** to the subject in September.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 710763)

- veiller à ce que des ressources suffisantes soient **consacrées** à la gestion des risques et à la conformité;
  ensuring that sufficient resources are **devoted** to risk management and compliance;
  ([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 2881831)

- de l &apos; Assemblée générale **consacrée** au désarmement,
  Assembly **devoted** to disarmament
  ([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 10220386)

## spent

Used about 4 772 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 442 · legal and administrative ≈ 321 · UN documents ≈ 4 001).

- J'ai **consacré** toute mon énergie à ce projet.
  I **spent** all my energy on that project.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#259142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259142) [\#12911393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12911393))

- EUR 10 millions y sont **consacrés** cette année.
  EUR 10 m are being **spent** 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 244254)

- tout le temps **consacré** à la mise en place est considéré comme temps de service.
  all time **spent** on positioning shall count as duty period.
  ([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 3247276)

- Environ 25 % des dépenses de santé sont **consacrées** aux enfants.
  Some 25 per cent of health funding was **spent** on children.
  ([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 26117815)

- Nous avons **consacré** beaucoup de temps à nos leçons.
  We **spent** a lot of time on our lessons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#248528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/248528) [\#1972771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1972771))

## dedicated

Used about 4 620 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 186 · legal and administrative ≈ 412 · UN documents ≈ 4 001). Meaning: [dedicated in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/dedicated/).

- Il s'est **consacré** à la recherche.
  He **dedicated** himself to research.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CS · checked, community translation · [\#989609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/989609) [\#992848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/992848))

- c’était sur le butin pris à la guerre qu’ils les avaient **consacrées** pour l’entretien de la maison de l’Éternel.
  They **dedicated** some of the plunder won in battles to repair the LORD’s house.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 26:27)

- Cette communication est la première note **consacrée** spécifiquement aux Roms.
  This was the first-ever policy document **dedicated** specifically to Roma.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1482237)

- Une catégorie de projets devrait être spécifiquement **consacrée** aux PME.
  A category of projects should be specifically **dedicated** to SMEs.
  ([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 4665083)

- Un site Web (www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010) est **consacré** à la Réunion plénière de haut niveau.
  The **dedicated** website for the High-level Plenary Meeting is www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010.
  ([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 21875066)

## More sentences

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

- Mon professeur m'a dit que je n'avais pas **consacré** assez de temps à la préparation de ma conférence.
  My teacher told me that I didn't devote enough time to preparing my lecture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2987701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2987701) [\#9010311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9010311))

- J'y ai **consacré** beaucoup de réflexion.
  I thought about it a lot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1961189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1961189) [\#1232175](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1232175))

- J'y ai **consacré** beaucoup de réflexion.
  I've thought about this a lot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5643099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5643099) [\#1232175](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1232175))

## 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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