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# donnent — French to English

How French *donnent* 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: donnent (28 081). By style: everyday 71 · literary 6 · biblical 15 · parliamentary 1 596 · legal and administrative 2 839 · UN documents 23 554.

## give

Used about 4 313 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 565 · legal and administrative ≈ 769 · UN documents ≈ 2 944). Meaning: [give in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/give/).

- Les vaches nous **donnent** du lait.
  Cows **give** us milk.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petro1 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#19494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19494) [\#9237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9237))

- «Ces cordes **donnent** la quinte et l'octave», dit Mr. Fogg.
  “Those chords **give** the fifth and the octave,” said Mr. Fogg.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2758)

- Ils ont un même dessein, et ils **donnent** leur puissance et leur autorité à la bête.
  These have one mind, and they **give** their power and authority to the beast.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 17:13)

- En effet, ce sont nos qualités humaines qui **donnent** un sens à notre vie politique.
  Indeed, it is our human qualities that **give** meaning to our political life.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 978732)

- tous les échantillons **donnent** un résultat positif;
  All samples **give** a satisfactory result.
  ([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 5475326)

## More sentences

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

- L'expérience est le nom que tous **donnent** à leurs erreurs.
  Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#694409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/694409) [\#694417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/694417))

- Les fenêtres de ma chambre **donnent** sur la cour.
  The windows of my bedroom face the courtyard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#3258910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3258910) [\#3258909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3258909))

- Un critique est une poule qui caquette pendant que les autres **donnent** des œufs.
  A critic is a hen that clucks while others are laying.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#2278662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2278662) [\#10749984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10749984))

## 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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