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# devenir — French to English

How French *devenir* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: devenir (38 549), devenirs (3). By style: everyday 560 · literary 17 · biblical 26 · parliamentary 5 423 · legal and administrative 1 842 · UN documents 30 684.

## become

Used about 24 622 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 280 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 3 841 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 228 · UN documents ≈ 19 253). Forms: become, becoming. Meaning: [become in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/become/).

- Tom veut **devenir** pompier.
  Tom wants to **become** a fireman.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wittydev and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1141020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1141020) [\#1146947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1146947))

- Qu'allait **devenir** Marius?
  What was to **become** of Marius?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13923)

- As-tu été appelé étant esclave, ne t’en inquiète pas; mais si tu peux **devenir** libre, profites-en plutôt.
  Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to **become** free, use it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 7:21)

- Cela ne doit, toutefois, pas **devenir** une habitude.
  This must not, however, **become** the rule.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 537424)

- Article 28: Conditions et modalités pour **devenir** partie au présent Acte
  Article 28: **Becoming** Party to This Act
  ([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 315256)

## More sentences

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

- Je pensais que j'étais en train de **devenir** fou.
  I thought I was going crazy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1961298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1961298) [\#2159695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2159695))

- Je veux **devenir** journaliste sportif.
  I want to be a sport reporter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CM · checked, community translation · [\#254038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/254038) [\#425084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425084))

- Elle a refusé ma demande pour **devenir** amies.
  She refused my friend request.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1848922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1848922) [\#1853312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1853312))

## 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

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