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# déterminer — French to English

How French *déterminer* 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: déterminaient (171), déterminait (255), détermine (12 171), déterminent (5 914), déterminer (122 136), déterminez (55), déterminons (42), déterminé (30 996), déterminée (29 169), déterminées (12 021), déterminés (14 882). By style: everyday 119 · literary 9 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 6 829 · legal and administrative 51 841 · UN documents 169 011.

## determined

Used about 102 295 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 71 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 584 · legal and administrative ≈ 31 892 · UN documents ≈ 67 744). Forms: determine, determined. Meaning: [determined in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/determined/).

- C'est une femme **déterminée**.
  She's a **determined** woman.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and WestofEden · checked, community translation · [\#2661995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2661995) [\#2164793](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2164793))

- Le chaussetier, malgré les signes que lui faisait Guillaume Rym, paraissait **déterminé** à tenir tête au roi.
  The hosier, in spite of the signs made to him by Guillaume Rym, appeared **determined** to hold his own against the king.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7831)

- Le Fils de l’homme s’en va selon ce qui est **déterminé**. Mais malheur à l’homme par qui il est livré!
  The Son of Man indeed goes as it has been **determined**, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:22)

- Je suis **déterminé** à le faire.
  That I am **determined** to do.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2014372)

- **Déterminez** le niveau de risque.
  **Determine** the risk level.
  ([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 5667870)

## whether

Used about 6 602 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 277 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 086 · UN documents ≈ 5 238).

- Nous devons **déterminer** si nous avons assez d'argent pour faire ça.
  We have to figure out **whether** we have enough money to do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5625129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5625129) [\#8833965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8833965))

- Par ailleurs, à qui appartient-il de **déterminer** si un pays est (super)sûr ou non?
  Incidentally, who decides **whether** a country is (super)safe or not?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 718514)

- **déterminer** si le produit a été commercialisé sur son territoire,
  establish **whether** the product was marketed on its territory,
  ([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 1968636)

- Dans ces conditions, il était difficile de **déterminer** si les objectifs étaient atteints.
  It was therefore difficult to ascertain **whether** objectives were being achieved.
  ([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 2383430)

- Alors pourquoi ne pas simplement dire « Si vous pensez avoir contribué suffisamment à Tatoeba pour en devenir un utilisateur de confiance, écrivez un message à un tel utilisateur ou un modérateur qui parle votre langue, et informez-l'en. Il passera en revue vos contributions afin de **déterminer** si vous avez bien compris le principe. Si c'est le cas, on vous garde » ?
  So why not just say "If you think you've done enough for Tatoeba to become a trusted\_user, write a message to a trusted\_user or moderator that speaks your languages and tell them. They will look over your work to check **whether** you've understood the system or not. If you have, you're in."?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and BraveSentry · checked, community translation · [\#773031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/773031) [\#774627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/774627))

## More sentences

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

- La politique est la science qui consiste à **déterminer** comment qui obtient quoi, quand et pourquoi.
  Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amnafeq and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#271395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271395) [\#12633011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12633011))

- En regardant de plus près les photos, j'ai pu **déterminer** que la belette était une martre d'Amérique grâce à la couleur claire de la fourrure sur sa gorge.
  Looking closer at the photos, I could tell that the weasel was an American marten by the light color of the fur on its throat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anxxos and Auride · checked, community translation · [\#10649752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10649752) [\#11740217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11740217))

- Il est difficile à **déterminer** s'il s'agit du son d'enfants qui rient ou qui crient.
  It's hard to tell if that's the sound of children laughing or screaming.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#652493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/652493) [\#811164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/811164))

## Grammar

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