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# mettre — French to English

How French *mettre* 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: mettre (418 525). By style: everyday 717 · literary 30 · biblical 93 · parliamentary 30 398 · legal and administrative 21 750 · UN documents 365 537.

## implement

Used about 48 220 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 800 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 344 · UN documents ≈ 38 077). Meaning: [implement in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/implement/).

- Il est essentiel de tout **mettre** en œuvre.
  It is important to **implement** everything.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1299935)

- s'emploient à promouvoir et à **mettre** en œuvre des régimes de transit régionaux;
  promote and **implement** regional transit arrangements;
  ([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 177910)

- La législation restera nulle et non avenue si le pays ne dispose pas des institutions nécessaires pour la **mettre** en œuvre.
  Legislation will remain void without the institutions to **implement** it.
  ([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 25320952)

- Nous avons également appuyé les efforts visant à **mettre** en œuvre le projet Galileo.
  We have also supported efforts to **implement** the Galileo project.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 588082)

- Améliorer la législation existante en matière de corruption et la **mettre** en œuvre.
  Improve the existing legislation on bribery and **implement** it.
  ([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 395452)

## put

Used about 27 437 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 299 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 3 800 · legal and administrative ≈ 453 · UN documents ≈ 22 846). Meaning: [put in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/put/).

- Où allez-vous le **mettre** ?
  Where are you going to **put** it?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1886641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886641) [\#1995753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1995753))

- --Madame, reprit-elle, est-ce que je peux la **mettre** sur une chaise?
  “Madame,” she resumed, “may I **put** her on a chair?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8827)

- mais il faut **mettre** le vin nouveau dans des outres neuves.
  But new wine must be **put** into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 5:38)

- Il est temps de **mettre** fin à cette absurdité.
  It is time to **put** an end to this nonsense.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 612775)

- Les parties A et B s'excluent; **mettre** une croix dans la case correspondant à la partie remplie.
  Complete either part A or part B and **put** a cross in the square corresponding to the part completed.
  ([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 784440)

## place

Used about 9 797 times in the texts (literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 267 · legal and administrative ≈ 906 · UN documents ≈ 7 615). Meaning: [place in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/place/).

- --Il faut **mettre** là un matelas.
  “We must **place** a mattress there.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26054)

- Il te retirera aussi de la détresse, Pour te **mettre** au large, en pleine liberté, Et ta table sera chargée de mets succulents.
  Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide **place**, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 36:16)

- Ce texte scandaleux tente, avec une rare hypocrisie, de **mettre** l'Université sous la tutelle exclusive de Bruxelles.
  This scandalous text is attempting, with rare hypocrisy, to **place** universities under the exclusive tutelage of Brussels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 360656)

- Ôter le couvercle et le **mettre** pendant 2 heures, avec la cuvette, dans l’étuve (4.2) réglée à 102 ±2 °C.
  Uncover the dish and **place** it with its lid in the oven (4.2), set at 102 ± 2 °C, for 2 h.
  ([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 1508173)

- Le cas échéant, il conviendrait de **mettre** en oeuvre des stratégies de réforme pluridimensionnelles tendant à assurer une solide assise financière aux régimes de retraite.
  Where appropriate, multifaceted reform strategies should be implemented in order to **place** pension systems on a sound financial footing.
  ([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 8859141)

## More sentences

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

- Ils furent incapables de se **mettre** d'accord sur quoi que ce soit.
  They weren't able to agree on anything.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MarieAnne and CH · checked, community translation · [\#5958192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5958192) [\#5959697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5959697))

- Bien sûr, grand-mère ; allons te **mettre** au lit.
  Sure, Grandma; let's get you to bed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#12075648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12075648) [\#12147848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12147848))

- Veuillez **mettre** ceci sur mon compte.
  Please charge this to my account.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fucongcong and CK · checked, community translation · [\#56347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/56347) [\#11491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11491))

## Grammar

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