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# doit — French to English

How French *doit* 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: doit (690 389), doits (116). By style: everyday 1 343 · literary 35 · biblical 87 · parliamentary 77 840 · legal and administrative 131 532 · UN documents 479 668.

## rights

Used about 233 184 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 8 340 · UN documents ≈ 224 844).

- C'est une mesure nécessairement complexe parce qu'il s'agit d'un échange de bons procédés pour rendre contraignante la Charte des **doits** fondamentaux.
  It is a necessarily complex measure because it is a quid pro quo for making binding the Charter of Fundamental **Rights**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1388722)

- 3. Libertés et **doits** civils
  4. Civil **rights** and freedoms
  ([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 20608606)

- Il arrive un moment où notre Assemblée **doit** se mettre autour de la table pour débattre de cette question attentivement en respectant les droits du public.
  There comes a time when this House has to sit down and discuss this matter carefully, with respect for the **rights** of the public.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1342107)

- La Charte africaine des **doits** et du bien-être de l &apos; enfant en mai 2006;
  African Charter on the **Rights** and Welfare of the Child in May 2006;
  ([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 26067157)

- Il est inacceptable que des Européens, en traversant les frontières, perdent leurs droits en raison de leur orientation sexuelle, en ce compris les **doits** de propriété, les droits à pension, la sécurité sociale, et même la garde de leurs propres enfants.
  It is unacceptable that Europeans, when crossing the border, should lose their **rights** on the grounds of their sexual orientation, including rights of ownership, pension entitlements, social security, even custody over their own children.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 759020)

## must

Used about 107 741 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 588 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 34 750 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 403 · UN documents ≈ 44 969). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Il **doit** être fatigué.
  He **must** be tired.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#317820](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/317820) [\#960054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/960054))

- Arcane où nul oeil profane ne **doit** pénétrer.
  An arcanum which no profane eye **must** penetrate.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10609)

- et je lui montrerai tout ce qu’il **doit** souffrir pour mon nom.
  For I will show him how many things he **must** suffer for my name’s sake.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 9:16)

- Elle **doit** mener à d'autres efforts visant à faire disparaître les obstacles.
  It **must** lead on to further efforts to remove the obstacles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1836048)

- Il **doit** être possible de faire correspondre les données enregistrées:
  It **must** be possible to match recorded data to:
  ([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 1360355)

## human

Used about 6 387 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 390 · UN documents ≈ 4 997). Meaning: [human in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/human/).

- Le développement du capital humain **doit** lui aussi bénéficier d’une attention particulière.
  Particular attention should also be paid to the development of **human** capital.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 684681)

- Conformément à sa Constitution, Cuba est dotée d &apos; un dispositif interinstitutionnel étendu et efficace pour recevoir, traiter et répondre à toute plainte ou réclamation d &apos; un particulier ou d &apos; un groupe concernant l &apos; exercice de chacun des **doits** de l &apos; homme.
  Cuba had a broad and effective inter-institutional system for receiving, processing and responding to any complaint or petition from an individual or group concerning the enjoyment of any **human** right, as stipulated in the Constitution.
  ([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 26031429)

## More sentences

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

- John **doit** faire sans chaîne stéréo pour l'instant.
  John has to do without a stereo for the time being.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and Luornu · checked, community translation · [\#52536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52536) [\#787885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/787885))

- Je pense que Tom **doit** rester.
  I think that Tom should stay.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lucasmg123 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5204164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5204164) [\#6713198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6713198))

- Le travail **doit** être fini pour demain.
  The work should be ready tomorrow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#497952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/497952) [\#337158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/337158))

## Grammar

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