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# observer — French to English

How French *observer* 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: observaient (95), observait (406), observe (12 221), observent (1 605), observer (66 995), observes (207), observez (71), observons (802), observé (15 957), observée (7 368), observées (6 923), observés (6 693). By style: everyday 137 · literary 26 · biblical 151 · parliamentary 4 652 · legal and administrative 11 193 · UN documents 103 184.

## observed

Used about 48 690 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 43 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 945 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 999 · UN documents ≈ 42 670). Forms: observe, observed, observes. Meaning: [observed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/observed/).

- L'avez-vous **observé** ?
  Have you **observed** it?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#11160277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11160277) [\#3147107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3147107))

- «Mais le bateau part à midi! fit **observer** Passepartout.
  “But the steamer leaves at noon!” **observed** Passepartout, nervously.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1053)

- Vous **observez** les jours, les mois, les temps et les années!
  You **observe** days, months, seasons, and years.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:10)

- Je vous demande d'**observer** une minute de silence.
  I ask you to **observe** one minute's silence.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 369845)

- L'ÉCONOMIE NON **OBSERVÉE**
  THE NON-**OBSERVED** ECONOMY
  ([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 2943421)

## there

Used about 8 222 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 504 · legal and administrative ≈ 337 · UN documents ≈ 7 370). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- Cet homme là-bas nous **observe** furtivement depuis un moment, le connais-tu ?
  That man over **there** has been glancing at us furtively for a while, do you know him?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#924098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/924098) [\#1336179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336179))

- Quand il n’y a pas de révélation, le peuple est sans frein; Heureux s’il **observe** la loi!
  Where **there** is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 29:18)

- Néanmoins, on **observe** aussi une certaine concordance entre les documents.
  But **there** is one point of agreement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1598617)

- Il est **observé** que le marché foncier n’est pas libre au Viêt Nam.
  It is noted that **there** is no free market of land in Vietnam.
  ([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 676629)

- En 1995, sur 108 236 naissances vivantes, on **observait** 675 cas de décès maternels.
  Out of 108,236 live births in 1995, **there** were 675 cases of maternal death.
  ([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 9097647)

## More sentences

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

- Il est de notre devoir de toujours **observer** les lois.
  It's our duty to pay attention to the law.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CardinalRed · checked, community translation · [\#5715629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5715629) [\#937407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/937407))

- J'aime **observer** les oiseaux.
  I love bird watching.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#5942267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5942267) [\#1275385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1275385))

- J'ai toujours aimé **observer** les mouvements des forces de la nature.
  I have always enjoyed observing the movements of the forces of nature.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MLDC and purple\_ice · checked, community translation · [\#11903344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11903344) [\#4876328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4876328))

## 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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