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# preuve — French to English

How French *preuve* 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: preuve (106 849), preuves (30 430). By style: everyday 236 · literary 7 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 12 614 · legal and administrative 19 904 · UN documents 104 510.

## evidence

Used about 80 418 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · parliamentary ≈ 4 993 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 269 · UN documents ≈ 62 053). Meaning: [evidence in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/evidence/).

- Tu as des **preuves** ?
  Do you have any **evidence**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3824869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3824869) [\#7778022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7778022))

- Nous disposons de **preuves** innombrables.
  We have **evidence** in plenty.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 399253)

- Mesures de conservation des **preuves**
  Measures for preserving **evidence**
  ([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 166792)

- &lt; &lt; Utilisation des éléments de **preuve**
  &quot; Use of **evidence**
  ([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 13354927)

- Je ne dispose d'aucune **preuve**.
  I don't have any **evidence**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2276034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2276034) [\#2421332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2421332))

## proof

Used about 12 470 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 81 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 445 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 317 · UN documents ≈ 7 621). Meaning: [proof in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/proof/).

- J'ai une **preuve**.
  I've got **proof**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2248390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2248390) [\#2433652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2433652))

- --La **preuve** que Dieu est bon, c'est que la voilà.
  “The **proof** that God is good is that she is here.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 32018)

- Donnez-leur donc, à la face des Églises, la **preuve** de votre charité, et montrez-leur que nous avons sujet de nous glorifier de vous.
  Therefore show the **proof** of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 8:24)

- Nous avons besoin de **preuves** réelles.
  We need real **proof**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1372981)

- Validité demandée pour la **preuve**
  Requested validity of the **proof**
  ([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 5365069)

## More sentences

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

- Le football est un sport d’abrutis. La **preuve** ? Les clubs sont détenus par des oligarques ruSSes et des émirs.
  Football is a sport for idiots. Why? The clubs are held back by Russian oligarchs and emirs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#10704638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704638) [\#10704634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704634))

- Il fait **preuve** d'une extrême prudence lorsqu'il conduit sous la pluie.
  He uses extreme care when he drives in the rain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#284741](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/284741) [\#11742479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11742479))

- Une mère est coincée entre son désir de plaire et le besoin de faire **preuve** d'autorité.
  A mother is caught between her desire to please and the need to be authoritative.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11694890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11694890) [\#8943592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8943592))

## 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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