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# joué — French to English

How French *joué* 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: joué (32 149), jouée (86), jouées (40), joués (302). By style: everyday 229 · literary 3 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 2 599 · legal and administrative 940 · UN documents 28 797.

## played

Used about 10 561 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 217 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 378 · legal and administrative ≈ 308 · UN documents ≈ 8 656). Forms: play, played.

- J'ai **joué** de la flûte.
  I **played** the flute.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5859798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859798) [\#6322008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6322008))

- Il avait **joué** le vaudeville à Saint-Mihiel.
  He had **played** in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15677)

- disent: Nous vous avons **joué** de la flûte, et vous n’avez pas dansé; nous avons chanté des complaintes, et vous ne vous êtes pas lamentés.
  and say, ‘We **played** the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:17)

- Ils ont **joué** un rôle.
  They **played** a role.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 906250)

- La garnison Sarollah a **joué** un rôle central dans la répression post-électorale.
  The Sarollah Corps **played** a central role in the postelection crackdown.
  ([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 2436713)

## roles

Used about 9 233 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 313 · legal and administrative ≈ 264 · UN documents ≈ 8 656). Forms: role, roles.

- La population du Cachemire n'a cependant **joué** aucun rôle là-dedans.
  The people of Kashmir did not, however, have any **role** in this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 936906)

- Rôles **joués** par une partie de la composition dans une unité géologique.
  **Roles** that a compositional part plays in a geologic unit.
  ([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 3048930)

- Rôles de conseiller **joués** récemment dans le domaine du commerce
  Recent Trade Related Advisory **Roles**
  ([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 28345059)

- En premier lieu, je parlerai du rôle **joué** par le pacte de stabilité et de croissance dans le processus actuel.
  First, the **role** of the Stability and Growth Pact in the current process.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 344570)

- Rôles respectivement **joués** par l’Autorité de surveillance AELE et les juridictions nationales
  Respective **roles** of the EFTA Surveillance Authority and national courts
  ([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 5639529)

## performed

Used about 4 359 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 31 · UN documents ≈ 4 328).

- Avant même l'apparition de la musique enregistrée, quand on achetait de la musique sur papier, on devait payer une certaine redevance qui revenait au créateur de cette musique et chaque fois qu'elle était **jouée**, l'artiste interprète ou exécutant recevait également une part de celle-ci.
  Before recorded music ever came into being, when you bought sheet music you had to pay a certain fee that went back to the creator of that music and every time it was **performed** the performer got a cut from it as well.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1253502)

- Des pièces sont **jouées** en ukrainien et en polonais dans les théâtres de la République.
  Plays in Ukrainian and Polish are **performed** in theatres of the Republic.
  ([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 312096)

- Des supports pédagogiques ont été produits pour étayer la campagne d &apos; information, notamment une pièce de théâtre, **jouée** en 2006.
  Information campaign material has been produced, including a play, which was **performed** in 2006.
  ([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 18850034)

- Hormis ces pièces, qui sont **jouées** par des acteurs adultes, les autres sont conçues avec les enfants par les membres de la Compagnie TIE.
  Besides these plays which are **performed** by adult artistes, the plays are devised with children by the members of TIE Company.
  ([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 17189598)

- 755. La première pièce de Kantata **jouée** à Lomé a été l &apos; œuvre d &apos; un instituteur togolais, feu APEDO-AMAH Morhouse.
  755. The first Kantata piece to be **performed** in Lomé was the work of a Togolese primary-school teacher, the late Apedo-Amah Morhouse.
  ([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 24513988)

## More sentences

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

- Mary a **joué** de ses charmes pour amener Tom à lui révéler des secrets d'État.
  Mary used her feminine wiles to hoodwink Tom into revealing state secrets.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#6282976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6282976) [\#13896450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13896450))

- La course s'est **jouée** sur le fil.
  The race went down to the wire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and LittleBoy · checked, community translation · [\#29533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/29533) [\#11682361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11682361))

- La course s'est **jouée** à la photo-finish.
  The race was a photo finish.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by superbolo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#29532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/29532) [\#181774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181774))

## Grammar

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