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# essai — French to English

How French *essai* 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: essai (130 725), essaie (3 199), essaies (66), essais (82 515). By style: everyday 629 · literary 4 · parliamentary 2 053 · legal and administrative 63 077 · UN documents 150 742.

## test

Used about 123 287 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 779 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 357 · UN documents ≈ 86 138). Forms: test, testing, tests. Meaning: [test in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/test/).

- Les pilotes d'**essais** tentent constamment la chance.
  **Test** pilots are constantly tempting fate.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#603589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/603589) [\#817722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/817722))

- REACH (Projet de règlement établissant des méthodes d'**essai**) (vote)
  REACH (Draft **Test** Methods Regulation) (vote)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1087536)

- Le rayon du tambour d'**essai**, R;
  **Test** drum radius R;
  ([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 5557234)

- c) L &apos; **essai** de détalonnage;
  (c) Bead unseating **test**;
  ([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 28113462)

- Il s'est fait passer pour un mannequin d’**essai** de choc.
  He made a crash **test** dummy of himself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and corvard · checked, community translation · [\#1521105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1521105) [\#6597250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6597250))

## try

Used about 20 445 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 439 · parliamentary ≈ 382 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 190 · UN documents ≈ 17 433). Forms: try, trying. Meaning: [try in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/try/).

- Je ferai un **essai**.
  I'll give it a **try**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1140115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1140115) [\#488751](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/488751))

- Ce gouvernement **essaie** de bâtir un nouvel avenir.
  It is **trying** to build a new future.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 107053)

- Sans préjudice de cette obligation, la BCE **essaie** de satisfaire les demandes des BCN.
  Without prejudice to this, the ECB shall **try** to accommodate the NCBs' requests.
  ([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 3227426)

- Elle **essaie** depuis lors d &apos; en mettre un en place progressivement.
  Since then it has been gradually **trying** to establish a central government.
  ([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 25055819)

- J'en ferai l'**essai**.
  I'll give it a **try**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1140115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1140115) [\#1140508](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1140508))

## tries

Used about 10 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 113 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 761 · UN documents ≈ 2 051).

- Il **essaie** d'arrêter de fumer.
  He **tries** to stop smoking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#454676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/454676) [\#138972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/138972))

- Il **essaie** de donner de l’espoir au peuple égyptien.
  He **tries** to give Egyptian people hope.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 805700)

- Cela est dû au fait que l’industrie communautaire **essaie** de s’orienter vers des tuyaux de meilleure qualité du fait de la pression sur les prix exercée par les importations de Chine.
  This would be because the Community industry **tries** to move to higher grade pipes, due to price pressure from Chinese imports.
  ([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 1826262)

- La pandémie du sida représente un défi d &apos; une intensité inégalée et notre réponse **essaie** de l &apos; être aussi.
  The AIDS pandemic represents a challenge of unparalleled intensity, and our response **tries** to meet that challenge.
  ([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 10171888)

- Vous avez droit à trois **essais** pour deviner où j'ai été hier !
  You get three **tries** to guess where I was yesterday.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and bart · checked, community translation · [\#1185360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1185360) [\#1184566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1184566))

## More sentences

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

- Comment était le montage d’**essai** ? Qu’est-ce qui était raccordé ?
  What did the experimental set-up look like? What was connected to what and how?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kroko and kroko · checked, community translation · [\#749416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749416) [\#749418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749418))

- Je n'en suis pas à mon coup d'**essai**.
  I'm not a newbie at this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11856893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11856893) [\#10328390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10328390))

- Ma sœur écrit un **essai** sur l'histoire allemande.
  My sister is writing an essay about German history.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13859022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13859022) [\#13859020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13859020))

## 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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