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# entendre — French to English

How French *entendre* 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: entendre (31 557). By style: everyday 748 · literary 47 · biblical 117 · parliamentary 5 403 · legal and administrative 1 688 · UN documents 23 554.

## hear

Used about 15 623 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 639 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 80 · parliamentary ≈ 2 702 · legal and administrative ≈ 879 · UN documents ≈ 11 286). Forms: hear, heard, hearing. Meaning: [hear in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hear/).

- J'arrive à t'**entendre**.
  I can **hear** you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by PERCE\_NEIGE and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2301250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2301250) [\#6000344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6000344))

- Il ne parut pas m'**entendre**.
  He seemed not to **hear** me.
  ([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 371)

- Que celui qui a des oreilles pour **entendre** entende.
  He who has ears to **hear**, let him hear.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:15)

- Nous devons faire **entendre** davantage la voix européenne.
  We have to make Europe's voice **heard** more.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 249204)

- En outre, celles qui l’ont demandé ont eu la possibilité de se faire **entendre**.
  The parties who so requested were also granted the opportunity to be **heard**.
  ([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 1650462)

## now

Used about 941 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 450 · UN documents ≈ 491). Meaning: [now in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/now/).

- Elles sont agréables à **entendre**, mais l'heure est venue de passer à l'action !
  They are nice to listen to, but it is action that is **now** required.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 422561)

- Nous allons maintenant **entendre** le reste des orateurs inscrits sur la liste au titre des explications de vote.
  We will **now** continue with the list of speakers in explanation of the vote.
  ([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 21897587)

- L'euro constitue une force économique aujourd'hui reconnue. Il doit également être une force politique et faire **entendre** sa voix à l'extérieur.
  The euro's economic strength is **now** recognised: it also needs to become a force politically and make its presence felt in the wider world.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 396958)

- Après avoir tenté de se faire **entendre** par le gouvernement bulgare pendant plusieurs années, ils ont à présent décidé de faire appel à la Commission européenne et au Parlement européenne.
  Having tried to appeal to the Bulgarian Government for years on end, **now** they have decided to approach the European Commission and the European Parliament.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1003975)

- Le coût lié à la résolution de la crise financière est impossible à estimer à l'heure actuelle. Certains calculs laissent **entendre** qu'il s'élèverait à environ 50 000 milliards USD.
  The cost of resolving the financial crisis is impossible to estimate **now**, but one calculation that has been put forward suggests a figure in the region of USD 50 000 billion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1218135)

## president

Used about 113 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 113). Meaning: [president in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/president/).

- Madame la Présidente, allez au Pays basque, faites-y **entendre** notre voix, notre clameur - et espérons que ce ne soit pas en vain - pour que cet assassinat soit le dernier.
  Madam **President**, go to the Basque Country, speak for us and show that we are crying out - hopefully not in the wilderness - for this to be the final death.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 58073)

## More sentences

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

- Je pense que vous et moi devrions probablement être capables de nous **entendre** mieux.
  I think that you and I should probably be able to get along better.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2396126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396126) [\#2398118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2398118))

- Je pense qu'il peut s'**entendre** avec ses voisins.
  I think he can get along with his neighbors.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and CS · checked, community translation · [\#304778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/304778) [\#1180144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1180144))

- À vous **entendre**, vous n'êtes pas très sûr.
  You don't sound too sure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2283684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2283684) [\#2286696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2286696))

## Grammar

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