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# espoir — French to English

How French *espoir* 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: espoir (25 879), espoirs (5 639). By style: everyday 305 · literary 20 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 5 067 · legal and administrative 54 · UN documents 26 062.

## hope

Used about 23 346 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 272 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 3 747 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 · UN documents ≈ 19 275). Forms: hope, hopes. Meaning: [hope in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hope/).

- Tom a perdu **espoir**.
  Tom has lost **hope**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2272741](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2272741) [\#4332802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4332802))

- Les insurgés, disons-le, étaient pleins d'**espoir**.
  The insurgents, we will remark, were full of **hope**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25548)

- Israël, mets ton **espoir** en l’Éternel, Dès maintenant et à jamais!
  Israel, **hope** in the LORD, from this time forward and forever more.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 131:3)

- Il y a donc de quoi avoir de l'**espoir**.
  And this is a basis for **hope**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1321310)

- Il a exprimé l'**espoir** que la Commission confirme l'aide accordée au chantier.
  The shipowner expressed the **hope** that the Commission would approve the aid granted to the yard.
  ([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 1965625)

## expectations

Used about 3 856 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 317 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 3 529).

- Il est toujours difficile à un fils de satisfaire les **espoirs** de ses parents.
  It's always difficult for a son to live up to the **expectations** of his parents.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9467184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9467184) [\#1566200](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1566200))

- Nous devons avoir une conversation ouverte et honnête à ce sujet, pour ne susciter aucun faux **espoir**.
  We need to have an open and honest conversation about this, so that we do not raise any false **expectations**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 688558)

- estime que, faute d’une concrétisation des **espoirs** d’amélioration de la gestion financière de la Commission, un renforcement du plan d’action s’imposera;
  considers enhancements of the action plan to be necessary if the **expectations** with regard to the improvement of the Commission’s financial management are not met;
  ([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 2758513)

- Cela est dû en partie au fait que certains **espoirs** ne peuvent plus être réalisés.
  This is partly due to the fact that certain **expectations** cannot any longer be met.
  ([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 789725)

- Il est toujours difficile à un fils de satisfaire les **espoirs** de ses parents.
  It is always difficult for a son to live up to the **expectations** of his parents.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CC · checked, community translation · [\#325683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325683) [\#1566200](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1566200))

## More sentences

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

- Avez-vous l'impression que votre avenir est sans **espoir** ?
  Do you feel like your future is hopeless?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · [\#9849524](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9849524) [\#9889410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9889410))

- Il semblait que la situation était sans **espoir**.
  The situation seemed hopeless.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by themiska and ZoeUK · checked, community translation · [\#4395351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4395351) [\#4395499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4395499))

- L'histoire se termine sur une note d'**espoir**.
  The story ends on a hopeful note.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#7902820](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7902820) [\#11228838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11228838))

## 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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