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# donner — French to English

How French *donner* 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: donnaient (2 320), donnait (4 821), donne (80 355), donnent (28 081), donner (198 167), donnes (112), donnez (979), donnons (1 113), donné (198 963), donnée (77 448), données (508 609), donnés (11 832). By style: everyday 3 140 · literary 178 · biblical 1 097 · parliamentary 55 301 · legal and administrative 161 384 · UN documents 891 700.

## give

Used about 204 816 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 343 · literary ≈ 74 · biblical ≈ 544 · parliamentary ≈ 15 976 · legal and administrative ≈ 43 570 · UN documents ≈ 143 309). Forms: give, given. Meaning: [give in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/give/).

- Tu me le **donnes**.
  You **give** it to me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#10473040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10473040) [\#8100763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8100763))

- **Donnez**-moi vingt francs.
  **Give** me twenty francs.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31591)

- et ne **donnez** pas accès au diable.
  and don’t **give** place to the devil.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 4:27)

- **Donnons**-leur de quoi discuter!
  **Give** them something to talk about!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1078648)

- (Engagements et garanties **donnés**)
  (Commitments and guarantees **given**)
  ([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 4875351)

## data

Used about 94 808 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 235 · parliamentary ≈ 3 994 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 702 · UN documents ≈ 66 877). Meaning: [data in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/data/).

- Je n'ai plus de **données**.
  I'm out of **data**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and araneo · checked, community translation · [\#13661025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13661025) [\#13661057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13661057))

- . - J’ai voté contre la proposition sur la conservation des **données**.
  . I voted against the proposal on **Data** Retention.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755532)

- **Données** figurant à l'annexe G
  **Data** included in Annex G
  ([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 1223598)

- Nombre de pays disposant de **données**
  Number of countries with **data**
  ([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 28799759)

- Montre-moi des **données** concrètes.
  Show me tangible **data**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#9662946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9662946) [\#9950253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9950253))

## gave

Used about 31 204 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 550 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 129 · parliamentary ≈ 3 687 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 531 · UN documents ≈ 22 293).

- Il me l'a **donnée**.
  He **gave** me it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12367246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12367246) [\#12116188](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12116188))

- «Qui vous l'a **donnée**?»
  “Who **gave** it to you?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1616)

- Et il lui a **donné** le pouvoir de juger, parce qu’il est Fils de l’homme.
  He also **gave** him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 5:27)

- Je vous ai **donné** les chiffres.
  I **gave** you the figures.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312111)

- Pour cette raison, IKC a **donné** un deuxième avis.
  For this reason, IKC **gave** a second opinion.
  ([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 1994819)

## More sentences

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

- On pourrait lui **donner** vingt ans.
  She could pass for twenty.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#310119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/310119) [\#4760117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4760117))

- Pourrais-tu me **donner** l'heure exacte, s'il te plaît ?
  Can you tell me the exact time, please?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and CK · checked, community translation · [\#271597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271597) [\#1683138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1683138))

- N'oublie pas de **donner** un pourboire au porteur pour avoir porté tes bagages.
  Don't forget to tip the porter for carrying your luggage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#33740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/33740) [\#13306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13306))

## 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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