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# essais — French to English

How French *essais* 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: essais (82 515). By style: everyday 11 · literary 1 · parliamentary 744 · legal and administrative 21 702 · UN documents 60 057.

## test

Used about 67 320 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 543 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 729 · UN documents ≈ 50 048). 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))

- Les **essais** pacifiques demandés par la Chine ne sont pas souhaitables.
  The peaceful nuclear **testing** which China wants are undesirable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1596797)

- Exigences générales et **essais**
  General requirements and **tests**
  ([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 1871967)

- e) Les données relatives aux **essais**:
  (e) **Test** data, including the following:
  ([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 29807841)

- Il nous faudra bien trois ans pour achever les **essais**.
  We need about another three years in order to achieve the **testing** requirements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1683935)

## trials

Used about 4 765 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 261 · UN documents ≈ 2 502).

- Le médicament doit subir des **essais** cliniques avant approbation.
  The drug must go through clinical **trials** before being approved.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#950932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950932) [\#950972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950972))

- Participation au second programme «partenariat des pays européens et en développement sur les **essais** cliniques»
  Participation in the second European and Developing Countries Clinical **Trials** Partnership Programme
  ([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 3153984)

- 1. destinés à des **essais** ou à des buts scientifiques
  1. intended for **trials** or scientific purposes
  ([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 8439401)

- Le médicament doit subir des **essais** cliniques avant autorisation.
  The drug must go through clinical **trials** before being approved.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#950932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950932) [\#952716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/952716))

- en réalisant des études de validation d'**essais** ou en collaborant avec des laboratoires nationaux de référence à leur réalisation;
  carrying out or collaborating with national reference laboratories in carrying out test validation **trials**;
  ([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 1576804)

## clinical

Used about 109 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 109). Meaning: [clinical in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/clinical/).

- C'est à cela que mèneront les **essais** cliniques.
  That will be the outcome of these **clinical** trials.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 439646)

- Je me félicite vivement de l'initiative de la Commission visant à mettre en place une plateforme pour les **essais** cliniques.
  I particularly welcome the Commission's initiative to set up a platform for **clinical** trials.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 439531)

- L'initiative TBVI ne devrait pas être considérée de façon isolée des autres initiatives pour soutenir les **essais** cliniques.
  The TBVI should not be considered in isolation from other initiatives for supporting **clinical** trials.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1485111)

- Et quand ils sont absolument nécessaires, ils doivent répondre aux conditions strictes de la directive sur les **essais** cliniques.
  Where they are absolutely necessary, they must comply with the strict conditions of the **Clinical** Trials Directive.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 711210)

- Deuxièmement, nous devons tenir compte des intérêts de l'industrie pharmaceutique qui effectue les **essais** cliniques.
  The second point is that we must bear in mind the interests of the pharmaceutical industry which is conducting the **clinical** trials.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1912392)

## More sentences

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

- 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))

- Tous les **essais**, sauf le vôtre, étaient bons.
  All the essays apart from yours were good.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12336338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12336338) [\#8553194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8553194))

- Tous les **essais**, sauf le vôtre, étaient bons.
  All the essays, other than yours, were good.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2006606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2006606) [\#8553194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8553194))

## Grammar

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