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# obtenir — French to English

How French *obtenir* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: obtenir (144 063). By style: everyday 219 · literary 4 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 9 472 · legal and administrative 13 030 · UN documents 121 329.

## information

Used about 29 216 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 592 · legal and administrative ≈ 814 · UN documents ≈ 27 805). Meaning: [information in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/information/).

- Savez-vous où vous rendre ou à qui demander pour **obtenir** des informations ?
  Do you know where to go or who to ask for **information**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1474466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1474466) [\#1474732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1474732))

- Je n'ai jamais eu aucun problème à **obtenir** des informations sur le projet, à aucun moment.
  I have never had any difficulty in getting any **information** about the project at any time.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1897605)

- Au contraire, il ressort des informations disponibles qu'Hynix n'aurait pas pu **obtenir** les fonds en question sur le marché.
  On the contrary, the available **information** indicates Hynix could not have obtained the relevant funds in the market.
  ([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 971171)

- Pour **obtenir** de plus amples renseignements, prière de se référer à la page 18. \[webcast\]
  For additional **information**, please see page 18. \[webcast\]
  ([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 30062233)

- Je ne peux donc que vous renvoyer à la Commission où vous pourrez **obtenir** les informations souhaitées, si elles existent.
  I can therefore only suggest that the **information** you require can be obtained from the Commission, if anywhere.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1941126)

## obtain

Used about 23 969 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 381 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 886 · UN documents ≈ 17 694). Meaning: [obtain in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/obtain/).

- Je veux **obtenir** des réponses à mes questions.
  I want to **obtain** answers to my questions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Nylez · checked, community translation · [\#9268954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9268954) [\#12019506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12019506))

- Une autre fois, faisant allusion aux résistances de ses ministres, il écrivait à propos d'un condamné politique qui est une des plus généreuses figures de notre temps: Sa grâce est accordée, il ne me reste plus qu'à l'**obtenir**.
  On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is one of the most generous figures of our day: “His pardon is granted; it only remains for me to **obtain** it.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18202)

- Des femmes recouvrèrent leurs morts par la résurrection; d’autres furent livrés aux tourments, et n’acceptèrent point de délivrance, afin d’**obtenir** une meilleure résurrection;
  Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might **obtain** a better resurrection.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 11:35)

- Cela signifie que nous devons les aider à **obtenir** un financement.
  This means that we must help them to **obtain** funding.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1224921)

- Les opérateurs d'établissements aquacoles désireux d'**obtenir** le statut d'établissement fermé:
  Operators of aquaculture establishments wishing to **obtain** the status of a confined establishment shall:
  ([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 3965536)

## achieve

Used about 7 650 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 776 · legal and administrative ≈ 814 · UN documents ≈ 5 055). Meaning: [achieve in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/achieve/).

- Si tu veux **obtenir** le genre de succès que je pense que tu veux, alors tu devras étudier davantage.
  If you want to **achieve** the kind of success that I think you do, then you'll have to study harder.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1096415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1096415) [\#1099880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1099880))

- Qu'est-ce qu'il essaie d'**obtenir**?
  What is he seeking to **achieve**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1085081)

- Cette dose est nécessaire pour **obtenir** le temps de caillage optimal.
  This amount is necessary to **achieve** the optimal curdling time.
  ([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 3041033)

- Si ces valeurs ne peuvent être obtenues, déterminer à la place la force à la pédale ou la pression dans les conduites nécessaire pour **obtenir** une décélération maximale.
  If this value cannot be achieved determine alternatively the pedal force or line pressure required to **achieve** maximum deceleration.
  ([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 21057052)

- Mais il est sans doute évident que les sanctions seules ne sont pas en mesure d'**obtenir** de tels résultats.
  It is probably obvious, however, that sanctions alone cannot **achieve** results like this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1126139)

## get

Used about 6 199 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 155 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 987 · UN documents ≈ 5 055). Meaning: [get in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/get/).

- Pouvez-vous les **obtenir** ?
  Can you **get** them?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3916159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3916159) [\#6169113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6169113))

- Je ne pouvais rien **obtenir** d'un serviteur aussi inféodé à son maître.
  I could **get** nothing out of a servant so feudalised, as it were, to his master.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3321)

- Je suis heureux qu'il ne faille pas tuer chaque fois 50.000 cochons pour **obtenir** de l'insuline.
  I am glad that we do not have to kill 50, 000 pigs every time to **get** the insulin.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1841283)

- d &apos; **obtenir** de la victime ou une troisième personne l &apos; aveu de l &apos; accusation, des informations, des aveux ainsi que les investigateurs veulent;
  to **get** the victim or a third person acknowledge the accusation, to get information, confessions - made according to the investigators wishes;
  ([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 8134085)

- Tom peut-il **obtenir** un chien ?
  Can Tom **get** a dog?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1886269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886269) [\#6478727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6478727))

## further

Used about 469 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 197 · legal and administrative ≈ 271). Meaning: [further in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/further/).

- Je souhaite néanmoins poser quelques questions, notamment sur le budget, sur Chypre et sur la poursuite de l'élargissement, dont j'aimerais **obtenir** de plus amples explications.
  But I have questions on budgets, on Cyprus and on **further** enlargement on which I would like further clarification.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 383734)

- En outre, il faut ajouter les droits de douane et les frais de transport intérieur pour **obtenir** le prix dans les installations du producteur.
  **Further**, custom duties and domestic transport costs have to be added to arrive at the price at the producer’s premises.
  ([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 5265352)

## help

Used about 207 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 197). Meaning: [help in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/help/).

- Je suis allé voir l'avocat pour **obtenir** une aide juridique.
  I went to the lawyer for legal **help**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#321064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/321064) [\#9771853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9771853))

- Approchons-nous donc avec assurance du trône de la grâce, afin d’**obtenir** miséricorde et de trouver grâce, pour être secourus dans nos besoins.
  Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for **help** in time of need.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 4:16)

- On ne peut pas toujours faire immédiatement appel à l'Union pour **obtenir** une aide.
  To always immediately call for **help** from the Union is the wrong way to go.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1518588)

- Je suis très reconnaissante pour toute l'aide que j'ai pu **obtenir** pour traduire des phrases.
  I am most grateful for all the **help** I have been given in translating sentences.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and janms · checked, community translation · [\#3253963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3253963) [\#4884203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4884203))

## More sentences

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

- Elle a réussi à **obtenir** l'argent de lui alors qu'il a dit qu'il ne lui donnerait pas.
  She got the money from him even though he said that he wouldn't give it to her.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#887162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887162) [\#1405892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405892))

- Vous commencez à **obtenir** des rendements décroissants une fois que vous atteignez un certain seuil.
  You start getting diminishing returns once you reach a certain threshold.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and megamanenm · checked, community translation · [\#6219053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6219053) [\#8862836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8862836))

- Tom n'aurait jamais dû **obtenir** ce travail.
  Tom should've never gotten that job.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6223779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6223779) [\#13747474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13747474))

## Grammar

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