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# prononcer — French to English

How French *prononcer* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: prononce (9 411), prononcent (1 076), prononcer (24 384), prononces (6), prononcez (25), prononcé (15 798), prononcée (16 960), prononcées (11 145), prononcés (3 946). By style: everyday 158 · literary 30 · biblical 91 · parliamentary 5 300 · legal and administrative 2 277 · UN documents 74 895.

## made

Used about 9 397 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 68 · UN documents ≈ 9 058).

- J'ai **prononcé** une décision.
  I **made** a judgment call.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2380383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2380383) [\#2382197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2382197))

- Ces paroles, **prononcées** avec sévérité, firent revenir à l'insolence la physionomie dépitée de maître Olivier.
  These words, uttered with severity, **made** Master Olivier’s face revert to its insolence.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7794)

- Et Jephthé partit avec les anciens de Galaad. Le peuple le mit à sa tête et l’établit comme chef, et Jephthé répéta devant l’Éternel, à Mitspa, toutes les paroles qu’il avait **prononcées**.
  Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people **made** him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 11:11)

- Mme Merkel a **prononcé** un bon discours.
  Mrs Merkel **made** a good speech.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 919368)

- la liquidation judiciaire ou le dépôt de bilan sont **prononcés** pour BE ou l'une quelconque de ses filiales;
  a winding up or administration petition or order is **made** in respect of BE or any of its subsidiaries;
  ([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 559605)

## More sentences

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

- Je ne peux pas **prononcer** le nom de cette fille!
  I can't pronounce this girl's name!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and DanielDaniel · checked, community translation · [\#7590093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7590093) [\#7647208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7647208))

- Savez-vous **prononcer** ces mots ?
  Can you pronounce these words?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#855042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/855042) [\#3671140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3671140))

- Connaissez-vous la manière de **prononcer** ce mot ?
  Do you know how to pronounce this word?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#57969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57969) [\#11405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11405))

## 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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