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# devoir — French to English

How French *devoir* 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: devoir (30 312), devoirs (13 651). By style: everyday 778 · literary 28 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 7 383 · legal and administrative 1 625 · UN documents 34 145.

## duties

Used about 16 947 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 769 · legal and administrative ≈ 592 · UN documents ≈ 14 583).

- De là vient que, si l'insurrection, dans des cas donnés, peut être, comme a dit Lafayette, le plus saint des **devoirs**, l'émeute peut être le plus fatal des attentats.
  Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as Lafayette says, the most holy of **duties**, an uprising may be the most fatal of crimes.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22896)

- On ne peut pas en revendiquer les droits sans en assumer les **devoirs**.
  You cannot claim the rights without assuming the **duties** in it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1679007)

- Principaux **devoirs** des députés
  Main **duties** of Members
  ([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 4880665)

- Sujet de droits et de **devoirs**.
  Subject of rights and **duties**.
  ([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 15258193)

- Du reste, si l'on fait abstraction des **devoirs** publics, qui veulent être remplis les premiers, cette profonde tendresse de Louis-Philippe pour sa famille, la famille la méritait.
  Moreover, if we deduct the public **duties** which require to be fulfilled first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his family was deserved by the family.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18159)

## duty

Used about 11 330 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 138 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 1 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 186 · UN documents ≈ 9 603). Meaning: [duty in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/duty/).

- Je fais mon **devoir**.
  I'm doing my **duty**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2549077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549077) [\#3551178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3551178))

- J'ai fait ce **devoir**-là vis-à-vis de Cosette.
  I have fulfilled this **duty** towards Cosette.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30274)

- Quel est le **devoir** de l'Union européenne?
  What is the **duty** of the European Union?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1023474)

- **Devoir** de coopérer loyalement
  **Duty** to cooperate in good faith
  ([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 3307365)

- Elle nous impose un **devoir** de solidarité.
  It imposes on us the **duty** of solidarity.
  ([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 4600538)

## homework

Used about 1 375 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 413 · parliamentary ≈ 538 · legal and administrative ≈ 68 · UN documents ≈ 356). Meaning: [homework in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/homework/).

- J'ai fait mes **devoirs**.
  I did my **homework**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2314845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2314845) [\#1646802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1646802))

- Il faut donc le dire avec clarté, l'Europe doit remplir les **devoirs** qui sont les siens.
  In this respect, it has to be clearly stated that Europe must do its **homework**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 307524)

- Endroit approprié pour étudier ou faire les **devoirs**
  Suitable place to study or do **homework**
  ([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 5152874)

- Ces centres seront des lieux de rencontre socioculturels et offriront des services tels qu &apos; une aide aux **devoirs**, etc.
  These centres will function as social and cultural gathering points and may offer services such as \`**homework** cafes &apos; , etc.
  ([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 22490705)

- Où sont tes **devoirs** ?
  Where is your **homework**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ceriz and Zaksocool · checked, community translation · [\#5158817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5158817) [\#5160127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5160127))

## More sentences

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

- A quelle heure tu vas **devoir** te coucher ?
  What time will you have to go to bed?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#69574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/69574) [\#6295431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6295431))

- Si seulement j'avais étudié plus dur pour le **devoir**.
  I wish I had studied harder for the test.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#39456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39456) [\#546188](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/546188))

- Tom va **devoir** rester à l'hôpital trois semaines de plus.
  Tom is going to have to stay in the hospital for another three weeks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6876073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6876073) [\#6876134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6876134))

## 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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