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# distribuer — French to English

How French *distribuer* 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: distribuaient (91), distribuait (142), distribue (1 962), distribuent (670), distribuer (27 884), distribues (45), distribuez (7), distribuons (42), distribué (20 171), distribuée (6 743), distribuées (5 296), distribués (11 324). By style: everyday 52 · literary 3 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 1 586 · legal and administrative 2 416 · UN documents 70 304.

## distributed

Used about 36 032 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 806 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 611 · UN documents ≈ 33 593). Forms: distribute, distributed, distributing. Meaning: [distributed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/distributed/).

- Je ne **distribue** pas leurs produits.
  I don't **distribute** their products.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11676557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11676557) [\#1925734](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1925734))

- Là, devant les portes, des jeunes gens debout sur des bornes **distribuaient** des armes.
  There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone corner-posts, **distributed** arms.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23095)

- Jésus, ayant entendu cela, lui dit: Il te manque encore une chose: vends tout ce que tu as, **distribue**-le aux pauvres, et tu auras un trésor dans les cieux. Puis, viens, et suis-moi.
  When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and **distribute** it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:22)

- Le texte a-t-il été **distribué** ?
  Is this also being **distributed**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 77866)

- Nombre de doses vaccinales **distribuées**:
  Number of vaccine doses **distributed**:
  ([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 2806575)

## circulated

Used about 16 207 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 22 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 · UN documents ≈ 16 159).

- La résolution **distribuée** en vue du vote de demain ne contient plus cette référence.
  The resolution which has now been **circulated** to be voted upon tomorrow no longer contains that reference.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2022739)

- Elle doit être **distribuée** aux membres en même temps que les amendements, suivant les dispositions de l'article 23, paragraphe 4.
  The list should be **circulated** to members together with the amendments, in accordance with Rule 23(4).
  ([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 434090)

- DOCUMENTS **DISTRIBUES** POUR INFORMATION
  DOCUMENTS **CIRCULATED** FOR INFORMATION
  ([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 2665825)

- Cela m'a paru une perte de temps, aussi ma déclaration écrite a-t-elle déjà été **distribuée** aujourd'hui.
  I felt that wasted time, so today my written statement has already been **circulated**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1175347)

- Voir le rapport du groupe spécial, Corée – Mesures affectant le commerce des navires de commerce (WT/DS273/R), **distribué** le 7 mai 2005, paragraphe 7.373.
  See Panel Report, Korea – Commercial Vessels (WT/DS273/R), **circulated** on 7 May 2005, para. 7.373.
  ([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 5003044)

## documents

Used about 4 423 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 9 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 · UN documents ≈ 4 394).

- Monsieur le Président, je voudrais tout d'abord remercier la Commission et le rapporteur pour les documents qui nous été **distribués**.
  Mr President, first I would like to thank both the Commission and the rapporteur for the **documents** we have received.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1667061)

- ne peuvent **distribuer**, à des fins lucratives, à des tiers, des copies de documents obtenus auprès du Parlement;
  not circulate for a profit to third parties copies of **documents** obtained from Parliament;
  ([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 2327340)

- Milliers de documents **distribués**
  Number of **documents** electronically stored
  ([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 3470814)

- Ce que nous réclamons, c'est un accès aux documents à partir du moment où la Commission **distribue** un document ou - et ce n'est pas si rare - s'il y a des fuites.
  Our demand to exercise supervision applies from the time when the Commission sends **documents** out or in the case of their being leaked, as happens not infrequently.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 72746)

- LISTE DES DOCUMENTS **DISTRIBUES** A LA
  LIST OF **DOCUMENTS** ISSUED FOR THE FIFTY-SECOND SESSION
  ([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 2870755)

## More sentences

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

- Je vais en **distribuer** trois à chacun.
  I'll deal out three to each.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#31855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/31855) [\#8983917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8983917))

- J'ai toute une boîte de cigares à **distribuer** lorsque mon fils sera né.
  I have a whole box of cigars ready to pass out when my son is born.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#669607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/669607) [\#809482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809482))

- Les sauveteurs vont **distribuer** des vivres aux victimes du tremblement de terre.
  The rescue workers are going to hand out supplies to the victims of the earthquake.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and CK · checked, community translation · [\#19581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19581) [\#1662746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1662746))

## Grammar

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