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# doivent — French to English

How French *doivent* 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: doivent (504 749). By style: everyday 280 · literary 4 · biblical 32 · parliamentary 42 116 · legal and administrative 87 241 · UN documents 375 076.

## must

Used about 113 059 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 128 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 23 690 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 533 · UN documents ≈ 54 699). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Ils **doivent** être heureux.
  They **must** be happy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by queenie and CK · checked, community translation · [\#306528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306528) [\#136380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136380))

- --Bah! les hommes **doivent** donc avoir froid et être mal?
  “Bah! **must** men be cold and feel uncomfortable?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19317)

- Les femmes, de même, **doivent** être honnêtes, non médisantes, sobres, fidèles en toutes choses.
  Their wives in the same way **must** be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 3:11)

- Ces indications **doivent** être conservées quoi qu'il arrive.
  Whatever happens, these **must** be retained.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1364679)

- Celles-ci **doivent** être effectives, proportionnées et dissuasives.
  The penalties **must** be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
  ([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 2301529)

## when

Used about 27 964 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 877 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 635 · UN documents ≈ 23 442). Meaning: [when in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/when/).

- Quand la forêt n'est plus, s'ils le peuvent, les oiseaux et les petits mammifères **doivent** trouver une nouvelle maison.
  **When** the forest is gone, birds and small mammals that lived there have to find new homes—if they can.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sorgan and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5322530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5322530) [\#6206186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6206186))

- Si c’est un chef qui a péché, en faisant involontairement contre l’un des commandements de l’Éternel, son Dieu, des choses qui ne **doivent** point se faire et en se rendant ainsi coupable,
  “‘**When** a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 4:22)

- Je pense que des règles ne **doivent** être instaurées qu'en cas d'échec des codes de bonne conduite.
  I think that regulations should be introduced only **when** the codes of good practice fail.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1556328)

- Les fenêtres de type éjectable ne **doivent** pas se détacher totalement du véhicule lorsqu'elles sont éjectées.
  Ejectable types shall not become totally detached from the vehicle **when** operated.
  ([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 5539266)

- En cas de rencontre ou de routes qui se croisent, les autres bateaux **doivent** s &apos; écarter de la route :
  **When** meeting or crossing the course of:
  ([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 19121746)

## More sentences

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

- Tous les élèves **doivent** revêtir le même uniforme.
  The pupils all have to wear the same uniform.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12287101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12287101) [\#3561978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3561978))

- Les disputes **doivent** être évitées: elles sont toujours vulgaires et souvent convaincantes.
  Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by inastar and inastar · checked, community translation · [\#1786868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1786868) [\#1786880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1786880))

- Vous savez ce que sont des blessures corporelles sévères ? À quel point les blessures **doivent**-elles en être pour être comptées comme sévères ?
  You know Grievous Bodily Harm? Just how bad do the injuries have to be before it counts as Grievous?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#534043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/534043) [\#539402](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/539402))

## Grammar

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