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# porté — French to English

How French *porté* 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: porté (38 780), portée (75 782), portées (19 237), portés (13 386). By style: everyday 169 · literary 20 · biblical 55 · parliamentary 5 081 · legal and administrative 11 012 · UN documents 130 848.

## brought

Used about 16 960 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 370 · legal and administrative ≈ 229 · UN documents ≈ 16 356).

- Vous avez vu ce que j’ai fait à l’Égypte, et comment je vous ai **portés** sur des ailes d’aigle et amenés vers moi.
  ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and **brought** you to myself.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 19:4)

- Les dernières élections présidentielles ont **porté** au pouvoir l'opposant Alassane Ouattara.
  The last presidential elections **brought** the opposition leader, Mr Ouattara, to power.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1465543)

- le nombre d’affaires **portées** devant les tribunaux au cours de la période de référence,
  the number of cases **brought** to court in the reporting period;
  ([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 3115018)

- Questions **portées** à l &apos; attention du Conseil
  Matters **brought** to the attention of the Council
  ([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 20701043)

- Les corps des animaux, dont le sang est **porté** dans le sanctuaire par le souverain sacrificateur pour le péché, sont brûlés hors du camp.
  For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is **brought** into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 13:11)

## scope

Used about 14 122 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 370 · legal and administrative ≈ 803 · UN documents ≈ 12 949). Meaning: [scope in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/scope/).

- Nous suivrons de très près le contenu, la **portée** effective de ce texte.
  We will very closely follow the content and effective **scope** of this document.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 306835)

- **Portée** de l’examen
  **Scope** of the scrutiny
  ([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 4969016)

- II. Généralités et **portée** du rapport
  II. Background and **scope**
  ([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 20735560)

- La **portée** de ces engagements est plus vaste que celle de tout autre accord du même type.
  The **scope** of these commitments is broader than that of any comparable agreement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1343579)

- **Portée** et date d’expiration de l’exemption
  **Scope** and expiry date of the exemption
  ([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 576040)

## More sentences

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

- J'ai **porté** un masque.
  I wore a mask.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5852859](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5852859) [\#5939194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5939194))

- Je suis désolé mais Paul s'est **porté** malade et j'aurais besoin que vous effectuiez son service.
  I'm sorry but Paul called in sick and I'm going to need you to work his shift.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#764179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/764179) [\#799664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/799664))

- Je suppose que je me suis mieux **porté**.
  I guess I've been better.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2330062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2330062) [\#2426489](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2426489))

## Grammar

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