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# lancé — French to English

How French *lancé* 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: lancé (60 375), lancée (15 365), lancées (9 840), lancés (11 567). By style: everyday 71 · literary 8 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 4 443 · legal and administrative 1 830 · UN documents 90 790.

## launched

Used about 36 303 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 041 · legal and administrative ≈ 724 · UN documents ≈ 34 519).

- Ils ont **lancé** une fusée.
  They **launched** a rocket.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#306126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306126) [\#4626810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4626810))

- Un enfant qui souffle ingénument sur la mèche mal allumée d'un pétard et se le fait éclater dans les yeux, n'est pas plus épouvanté que ne le fut Mahiette, à l'effet de ce nom brusquement **lancé** dans la cellule de soeur Gudule.
  A child who innocently blows upon the badly ignited fuse of a bomb, and makes it explode in his face, is no more terrified than was Mahiette at the effect of that name, abruptly **launched** into the cell of Sister Gudule.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3396)

- Ainsi, une campagne sera **lancée**.
  A campaign is therefore to be **launched**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 227479)

- L'EUTM RCA est **lancée** le 16 juillet 2016.
  EUTM RCA shall be **launched** on 16 July 2016.
  ([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 3834224)

- 66. En mars 2010 seront également **lancées** les initiatives suivantes:
  66. To be **launched** in March 2010 is also:
  ([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 24476089)

## initiated

Used about 10 259 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 440 · legal and administrative ≈ 362 · UN documents ≈ 9 457). Forms: initiated, initiatives.

- La présidence allemande l'a **lancée**.
  The German Presidency **initiated** it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1036371)

- Aucun processus ne peut être **lancé** à partir d'un compte clôturé.
  No processes may be **initiated** from closed accounts.
  ([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 2180530)

- Processus **lancés** par des organisations régionales ou sous-régionales
  Processes **initiated** by regional and subregional organizations
  ([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 6872990)

- Je vous suis donc très reconnaissante d'avoir **lancé** ce débat.
  Therefore, I am very thankful to you for having **initiated** this debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1576281)

- Le régime de soutien au chauffage alternatif a été **lancé** en 2006.
  The alternative heating scheme was **initiated** in 2006.
  ([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 5641270)

## calls

Used about 2 161 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 231 · legal and administrative ≈ 38 · UN documents ≈ 1 891).

- Les appels **lancés** par cette Assemblée ne sont pas anti-américains.
  The **calls** made in this House are not anti-American.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 569274)

- «appel d'offres», un appel pour la sous-traitance de tâches particulières **lancé** par un responsable de DTI ou un associé;
  ‘**calls** for tender’ means calls for subcontracting specific tasks issued by ITD Leaders or Associates.
  ([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 1478178)

- c) Recommandations pour les appels qui pourront être **lancés** pour obtenir des données de modélisation dynamique;
  Recommendations for any further **calls** for dynamic modelling data;
  ([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 15453337)

- Malheureusement, aucun appel d'offres n'a été **lancé** depuis 1997.
  Unfortunately, no **calls** for tenders have been issued since 1997.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 305003)

- L’adaptation de la valeur totale des coûts unitaires conformément aux paragraphes ci-dessus ne s’applique pas aux appels déjà **lancés**.
  Changes in the total value of the unit costs set out here above will not apply to already announced **calls**.
  ([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 5036324)

## More sentences

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

- Est-ce que tu as **lancé** le lave-vaisselle ?
  Did you start the dishwasher?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by olivier and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6788724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6788724) [\#6841773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6841773))

- Mary a **lancé** une pomme de terre par la fenêtre.
  Mary threw a potato through the window.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6763696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6763696) [\#6764001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6764001))

- Il a **lancé** un appel à l'aide.
  He appealed for help.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ET · checked, community translation · [\#8503438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8503438) [\#9030479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9030479))

## Grammar

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