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# portent — French to English

How French *portent* 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: portent (39 117). By style: everyday 87 · literary 6 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 1 769 · legal and administrative 4 765 · UN documents 32 451.

## relate

Used about 2 610 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 184 · legal and administrative ≈ 397 · UN documents ≈ 2 028). Meaning: [relate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/relate/).

- Il faut savoir que ces chiffres **portent** sur 27 pays et non sur 25.
  It should be realised that these figures **relate** to 27 European countries, and not just 25.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 845196)

- Elles **portent** sur l'année t – 2.
  They shall **relate** to the year t – 2.
  ([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 5675142)

- 9. Les questions importantes qui se posent en ce qui concerne les rapports nationaux **portent** sur les aspects suivants:
  9. The important issues that arise with regard to national reporting **relate** to the following:
  ([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 18694566)

- Mes deux autres observations, Madame la Présidente, **portent** sur l’initiative de M. Romagnoli visant à présenter un amendement sur la réforme agraire.
  My other two observations, Madam President, **relate** to Mr Romagnoli’s initiative to present an amendment on the agricultural reform.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 807000)

- Ces demandes **portent** sur une quantité d’au moins 10 tonnes.
  Those applications shall **relate** to not less than 10 tonnes.
  ([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 2588808)

## wear

Used about 1 529 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 37 · legal and administrative ≈ 99 · UN documents ≈ 1 352). Meaning: [wear in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wear/).

- Les hommes ne **portent** pas de culottes.
  Men don't **wear** panties.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9361173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9361173) [\#12478194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12478194))

- Leur fine gorgerette blanche, leur jupe de tiretaine rayée rouge et bleue, leurs chausses de tricot blanc, à coins brodés en couleur, bien tirées sur la jambe, leurs souliers carrés de cuir fauve à semelles noires et surtout leur coiffure, cette espèce de corne de clinquant surchargée de rubans et de dentelles que les champenoises **portent** encore, concurremment avec les grenadiers de la garde impériale russe, annonçaient qu'elles appartenaient à cette classe de riches marchandes qui tient le milieu entre ce que les laquais appellent une femme et ce qu'ils appellent une dame.
  Their fine white ruffs; their petticoats of linsey-woolsey, striped red and blue; their white knitted stockings, with clocks embroidered in colors, well drawn upon their legs; the square-toed shoes of tawny leather with black soles, and, above all, their headgear, that sort of tinsel horn, loaded down with ribbons and laces, which the women of Champagne still **wear**, in company with the grenadiers of the imperial guard of Russia, announced that they belonged to that class wives which holds the middle ground between what the lackeys call a woman and what they term a lady.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3017)

- Mais, qu’êtes-vous allés voir? Un homme vêtu d’habits précieux? Voici, ceux qui **portent** des habits précieux sont dans les maisons des rois.
  But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who **wear** soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 11:8)

- Il y a ici un certain nombre d'entre vous qui **portent** des T-shirts particuliers parce qu'ils sont contre une forme d'énergie.
  There are a number of you here who **wear** particular T-shirts because you are against a type of power.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1116466)

- Des mesures doivent être prises pour garantir qu'ils **portent** un appareil respiratoire autonome ou d'autres équipements appropriés de protection individuelle,
  Measures are required to ensure that they **wear** self-containing breathing apparatus or other appropriate personal protective equipment;
  ([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 4260976)

## bear

Used about 1 320 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 37 · legal and administrative ≈ 596 · UN documents ≈ 676). Meaning: [bear in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bear/).

- Les ramures qui **portent** le plus sont les plus basses.
  The boughs that **bear** most hang lowest.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and zhouj1955 · checked, community translation · [\#347552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/347552) [\#492347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/492347))

- Les prieures et les mères **portent** presque toujours des noms empreints d'une gravité particulière, rappelant, non des saintes et des martyres, mais des moments de la vie de Jésus-Christ, comme la mère Nativité, la mère Conception, la mère Présentation, la mère Passion.
  The prioresses and the mothers almost always **bear** names stamped with peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Mother Presentation, Mother Passion.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10411)

- Ordonne aux sacrificateurs qui **portent** l’arche du témoignage de sortir du Jourdain.
  “Command the priests who **bear** the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 4:16)

- Notre deuxième point d'attention, un point qui était d'un intérêt particulier pour moi, portait sur le rôle des importateurs, qui **portent** une responsabilité particulière.
  Our second focal point, and one that was of particular interest to me, was the role of importers, who **bear** particular responsibility.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1032955)

- Les déclarations d'origine délivrées en vertu du paragraphe 9 **portent** l'une des mentions suivantes:
  Origin declarations issued by application of paragraph 9 shall **bear** one of the following entries:
  ([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 322387)

## More sentences

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

- Ces filles **portent** des tenues légères.
  These girls are wearing skimpy clothes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1637157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1637157) [\#13417811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13417811))

- Tom et Marie **portent** leurs uniformes d'écoliers.
  Tom and Mary are wearing their school uniforms.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1486069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1486069) [\#1692750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1692750))

- Les filles **portent** des jupes courtes ces temps-ci.
  Girls are wearing short skirts these days.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#434772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/434772) [\#1919570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1919570))

## 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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