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# désigné — French to English

How French *désigné* 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: désigné (27 242), désignée (10 207), désignées (11 183), désignés (21 074). By style: everyday 15 · literary 3 · biblical 24 · parliamentary 1 353 · legal and administrative 18 795 · UN documents 49 516.

## designated

Used about 32 507 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 268 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 572 · UN documents ≈ 21 663).

- Tom était le conducteur **désigné**.
  Tom was the **designated** driver.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by letsgolanguages and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#10119440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10119440) [\#10123045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10123045))

- Beaucoup dépend de la volonté du président **désigné**.
  Much depends on the will of the President **designated**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1925883)

- Nombre de teneurs de marché **désignés**
  Number of **designated** market makers
  ([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 4292610)

- D. Entités opérationnelles **désignées**
  D. **Designated** operational entities
  ([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 7351394)

- Nous nous sommes rencontrés à l'endroit **désigné**.
  We met at the **designated** spot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#258587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/258587) [\#5600037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5600037))

## appointed

Used about 8 561 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 373 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 251 · UN documents ≈ 5 932). Meaning: [appointed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/appointed/).

- Nous l'avons **désigné** comme notre représentant.
  We **appointed** him as our representative.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#22706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22706) [\#11767646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11767646))

- Jean Valjean s'arrangea de façon à être **désigné**, sous le nom de Fauchelevent, comme tuteur de Cosette, avec M. Gillenormand comme subrogé tuteur.
  Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was **appointed**, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette’s guardian, with M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over 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 29207)

- parce qu’il a fixé un jour où il jugera le monde selon la justice, par l’homme qu’il a **désigné**, ce dont il a donné à tous une preuve certaine en le ressuscitant des morts…
  because he has **appointed** a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 17:31)

- Pourquoi certaines personnes sont-elles **désignées**?
  Why are individuals **appointed**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1070628)

- «Plates-formes d’enchères **désignées** par l’Allemagne
  ‘Auction platforms **appointed** by Germany
  ([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 3035394)

## More sentences

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

- M. Togawa a été **désigné** maire.
  Mr. Togawa was elected as mayor.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#9791933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9791933) [\#180749](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180749))

- Tu es celui qui est **désigné**.
  You're the one.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and adamtrousers · checked, community translation · [\#3530750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3530750) [\#3530936](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3530936))

- Je n'ai jamais imaginé un seul instant que je serais **désigné** pour une fouille au corps complète.
  I never for a moment imagined that I'd be singled out for a full body search.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953542) [\#1405840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405840))

## Grammar

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