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# doute — French to English

How French *doute* 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: doute (44 254), doutes (9 888). By style: everyday 416 · literary 80 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 12 549 · legal and administrative 4 956 · UN documents 36 132.

## doubts

Used about 30 552 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 329 · literary ≈ 55 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 7 320 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 027 · UN documents ≈ 18 819). Forms: doubt, doubts.

- J'ai eu mes **doutes**.
  I had my **doubts**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2331662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2331662) [\#2429990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2429990))

- On affirme, mais on **doute**.
  One affirms, but one **doubts**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3119)

- Mais qu’il la demande avec foi, sans douter; car celui qui **doute** est semblable au flot de la mer, agité par le vent et poussé de côté et d’autre.
  But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who **doubts** is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 1:6)

- Nos **doutes** à cet égard sont tout à fait considérables.
  We very much **doubt** it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2044003)

- Un **doute** justifié doit toujours:
  A justified **doubt** shall always:
  ([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 4610698)

## about

Used about 2 547 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 654 · UN documents ≈ 1 882). Meaning: [about in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/about/).

- Je dois avouer que j'ai quelques **doutes** sur ton plan.
  I must admit, I have some misgivings **about** your plan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Vanilla · checked, community translation · [\#3152205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3152205) [\#9763494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9763494))

- —Nous, sans **doute**, répondis-je, mais le guide?
  "We may; but how **about** our guide?"
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1070)

- Il n'y a aucun **doute** à avoir à ce sujet.
  There is no question **about** it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1966197)

- Il souhaitera sans **doute** être informé de l &apos; état d &apos; acceptation de la résolution.
  The Working Party may wish to be informed **about** the status of acceptance of the resolution.
  ([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 11280710)

- J'ai des **doutes** au sujet des prétentions à parler plus de cinq langues couramment.
  I'm dubious **about** claims to speak more than five languages fluently.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#562346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/562346) [\#820744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/820744))

## expressed

Used about 753 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 753). Meaning: [expressed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/expressed/).

- Certains membres ont exprimé des **doutes** quant à la capacité de certaines unités de la MINUAD de mener leurs opérations et de protéger les déplacés.
  Some members **expressed** concern about the capacity of some UNAMID units to conduct their operations and to protect internally displaced persons.
  ([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 28523575)

- Des **doutes** ont été exprimés au sujet de la dernière partie du paragraphe 11, qui limitait la nature des informations à fournir à celles provenant de l &apos; expérience antérieure.
  Concern was **expressed** about the last part of paragraph 11, which limited the relevant scope of information to that arising from previous experience.
  ([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 27969454)

## More sentences

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

- Tu vas sans **doute** penser que je suis folle, mais il n'en est rien.
  You think, I must be crazy, but that's wrong.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Giulio · checked, community translation · [\#4296602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4296602) [\#7683448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7683448))

- Nous n'aurons sans **doute** pas assez de temps pour finir cela aujourd'hui.
  We probably don't have enough time to finish doing this today.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by olivier and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5706712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5706712) [\#5627707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5627707))

- Je deviens sans aucun **doute** fou.
  I'm definitely going crazy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3825536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3825536) [\#5390965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5390965))

## Grammar

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