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# lancer — French to English

How French *lancer* 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: lance (10 081), lancent (1 409), lancer (24 747), lances (267), lancez (47), lancé (60 375), lancée (15 365), lancées (9 840), lancés (11 567). By style: everyday 179 · literary 14 · biblical 69 · parliamentary 8 891 · legal and administrative 3 334 · UN documents 121 211.

## launched

Used about 37 786 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 586 · legal and administrative ≈ 872 · UN documents ≈ 35 301). Forms: launch, launched.

- 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 5 294 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 288 · legal and administrative ≈ 320 · UN documents ≈ 4 686).

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- Ils sont en train de **lancer** une nouvelle chaîne de production.
  They're launching a new production line.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and kaiperkins271 · checked, community translation · [\#6948418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6948418) [\#1086778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1086778))

- Tom était prêt à se **lancer**.
  Tom was ready to jump.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7445339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7445339) [\#7459054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7459054))

- Il va **lancer** sur toi une malédiction.
  He will curse you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and nicholas\_martin · checked, community translation · [\#5943572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5943572) [\#4213468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4213468))

## 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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