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# espère — French to English

How French *espère* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: espère (56 785), espères (7). By style: everyday 1 296 · literary 8 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 21 732 · legal and administrative 100 · UN documents 33 629.

## hope

Used about 50 942 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 146 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 20 827 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 · UN documents ≈ 28 921). Forms: hope, hoped, hopes. Meaning: [hope in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hope/).

- J'**espère** qu'il verra cela.
  I **hope** he sees this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1832145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1832145) [\#1832497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1832497))

- --Je l'**espère**, monsieur Fix.
  “I **hope** so, Monsieur Fix.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 533)

- Mon âme languit après ton salut; J’**espère** en ta promesse.
  My soul faints for your salvation. I **hope** in your word.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:81)

- J'**espère** que nous y arriverons.
  I **hope** that we get there.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1994131)

- J'**espère** que ces informations pourront vous être utiles.
  I **hope** that this information is helpful to you.
  ([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 3842533)

## expects

Used about 1 401 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 56 · UN documents ≈ 1 345).

- **espère** que cette situation se sera améliorée en 2012;
  **expects** that the situation will have improved in 2012;
  ([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 2759420)

- Le Tribunal **espère** pouvoir rendre un certain nombre de jugements au début de l &apos; année 2008.
  The Tribunal **expects** a number of judgements to be delivered early in 2008.
  ([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 17743166)

- Arriva **espère** ainsi parvenir à une réduction des coûts de 3 millions de DKK par an.
  By doing so, Arriva **expects** to cut costs to a level of DKK 3 million p/a.
  ([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 1720783)

- Le Gouvernement **espère** obtenir de grandes quantités de devises en mettant en valeur ses ressources en eau et en développant son secteur touristique.
  The Government **expects** to earn larger amounts of foreign currency by the development of the water and tourism sectors.
  ([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 3745433)

- La Commission **espère** que cela disciplinera le comportement des parties en matière tarifaire.
  The Commission **expects** that this will discipline the pricing behaviour of the parties.
  ([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 781212)

## More sentences

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

- J'**espère** pouvoir écrire deux ou trois chansons au cours du week-end.
  I'm hoping that I can write two or three songs over the weekend.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4198272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4198272) [\#4199906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4199906))

- Marie **espère** pouvoir le faire.
  Mary is hoping she can do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by genes1s and CF · checked, community translation · [\#6426759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6426759) [\#13345108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13345108))

- J'**espère** chanter mieux la prochaine fois.
  I expect to sing better next time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Goofy and CK · checked, community translation · [\#264348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264348) [\#489939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/489939))

## 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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