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# engager — French to English

How French *engager* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: engagaient (1), engage (50 103), engagent (13 248), engager (56 032), engages (84), engagez (62), engagé (43 700), engagée (23 246), engagées (34 513), engagés (27 954). By style: everyday 157 · literary 12 · biblical 17 · parliamentary 12 725 · legal and administrative 13 930 · UN documents 222 102.

## committed

Used about 22 305 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 648 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 746 · UN documents ≈ 17 902). Meaning: [committed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/committed/).

- Yanni était dans une relation **engagée**.
  Yanni was in a **committed** relationship.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10052596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10052596) [\#11756643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11756643))

- Ils se sont tous **engagés** dans ce domaine.
  They are all **committed** to it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887984)

- le montant **engagé** juridiquement;
  the amount legally **committed**;
  ([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 4658132)

- Les fonds disponibles pour l &apos; assistance technique étaient déjà entièrement **engagés**;
  The funds available for technical assistance had already been fully **committed**;
  ([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 6699127)

- Tom s'**engage** à ratifier les décisions prises par Marie.
  Tom is **committed** to ratifying the decisions made by Mary.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6580748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6580748) [\#6580723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6580723))

## engaged

Used about 11 862 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 550 · legal and administrative ≈ 675 · UN documents ≈ 10 630). Meaning: [engaged in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/engaged/).

- Elle a été **engagée** en tant qu'interprète.
  She was **engaged** as an interpreter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#315885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/315885) [\#134555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134555))

- Tel est le contexte de la procédure dans laquelle nous sommes **engagés**.
  That is the context of the process we are **engaged** in.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 129624)

- Arbre de transmission et/ou plus de 2 pignons **engagés**
  drive shaft and/or more than 2 **engaged** gearwheels
  ([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 4456336)

- d) La marche arrière n &apos; est pas **engagée**.
  The reverse gear is not **engaged**. 15.2.4.3.2.2.
  ([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 28161160)

- Elles se sont **engagées** dans la recherche sur le cancer.
  They are **engaged** in cancer research.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#305589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305589) [\#1788520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1788520))

## undertake

Used about 10 162 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 344 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 984 · UN documents ≈ 7 832). Meaning: [undertake in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/undertake/).

- Je m'**engage** à le faire.
  I **undertake** to do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and curtisdavid · checked, community translation · [\#1055125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1055125) [\#3794279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3794279))

- Madame Fraga Estévez, je m'**engage** à ce que cette vérification soit faite aussi scrupuleusement que possible.
  Mrs Fraga Estévez, I will **undertake** to ensure that this is checked as carefully as possible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1678938)

- Les parties s'**engagent** à promouvoir la coopération culturelle.
  The Parties **undertake** to promote cultural cooperation.
  ([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 2074765)

- i) le manque de ressources financières pour **engager** l &apos; étude;
  lack of financial resources to **undertake** the study;
  ([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 830751)

- Les États membres s'**engagent** à éviter d'étendre la fourchette actuelle au-dessus du taux normal minimal qu'ils appliquent.
  The Member States **undertake** to avoid extending the current span above the current lowest standard rate applied by them.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1437530)

## hired

Used about 2 904 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · legal and administrative ≈ 40 · UN documents ≈ 2 797).

- On ne m'a pas **engagé**.
  I wasn't **hired**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2247540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247540) [\#4693285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4693285))

- Enfin, le personnel administratif était **engagé** et rétribué par Bryne Fotball ASA (clause 5.1).
  Finally, administrative staff would be **hired** and paid by Bryne Fotball ASA (Clause 5.1).
  ([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 5642240)

- Un consultant indépendant a été **engagé**.
  Independent consultant **hired** instead
  ([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 28321280)

- J'ai **engagé** un guide.
  I **hired** a guide.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4935557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4935557) [\#6914929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6914929))

- Les salariés nouvellement **engagés** devront être en excédent de l &apos; effectif total moyen des six derniers mois;
  (h) The number of persons **hired** must exceed the total average staff number of the previous six months;
  ([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 3892052)

## More sentences

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

- J'aimerais **engager** quelqu'un qui parle français.
  I'd like to hire someone who speaks French.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2451236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2451236) [\#5375132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5375132))

- Je veux m'**engager** dans l'armée.
  I want to join the army.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2011910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2011910) [\#11619567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11619567))

- Sami a refusé de s'**engager**.
  Sami refused to get involved.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6312427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6312427) [\#6312781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6312781))

## 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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