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# proposer — French to English

How French *proposer* 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: proposaient (862), proposait (3 986), propose (50 644), proposent (7 244), proposer (34 067), proposes (323), proposez (529), proposons (3 448), proposé (127 100), proposée (33 198), proposées (34 522), proposés (32 577). By style: everyday 174 · literary 9 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 33 735 · legal and administrative 20 626 · UN documents 273 937.

## proposed

Used about 170 404 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 44 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 21 084 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 876 · UN documents ≈ 138 395). Forms: propose, proposed, proposing.

- Que **proposes**-tu à la place ?
  What do you **propose** instead?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3823544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3823544) [\#7781685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7781685))

- Il **proposait**, elle acceptait.
  He **proposed**, and she agreed.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19622)

- Mais nous **proposons** d'aller plus loin.
  We **propose** going further, however.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 250730)

- Arbitres **proposés** par l'Union:
  Arbitrators **proposed** by the Union:
  ([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 4544199)

- Nouvelle norme-cadre **proposée**
  **Proposed** new Master Standard
  ([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 8609344)

## offer

Used about 10 160 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 843 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 156 · UN documents ≈ 7 134). Meaning: [offer in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/offer/).

- Qu'ont-ils **proposé** ?
  What did they **offer**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2647337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2647337) [\#11310556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11310556))

- Va dire à David: Ainsi parle l’Éternel: Je te **propose** trois fléaux; choisis-en un, et je t’en frapperai.
  “Go and speak to David, ‘The LORD says, “I **offer** you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 24:12)

- Cela permettrait de **proposer** une source alternative à celle fournie par le projet Nabucco.
  This would **offer** an alternative source to that provided by the Nabucco project.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1577114)

- de **proposer** les conseils et le soutien de l’Union dans le processus politique;
  **offer** the Union’s advice and support in the political process;
  ([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 2009155)

- En cas d &apos; échec de la médiation, certains États **proposent** également une conciliation.
  If mediation is not successful, some states also **offer** conciliation.
  ([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 17023577)

## amendments

Used about 2 818 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 298 · legal and administrative ≈ 94 · UN documents ≈ 1 427).

- C'est ce que **proposent** les amendements 6, 12, 14, 16, 19 et 22.
  That covers **Amendments** Nos 6, 12, 14, 16, 19 and 22.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2022281)

- **proposer** des modifications ou des ajouts au présent accord;
  suggesting **amendments** or additions to this Agreement;
  ([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 102079)

- Les modifications qu &apos; ils **proposaient** étaient le reflet des attentes globales des pays qu &apos; ils représentaient.
  Their **amendments** reflected the overall expectations of their constituencies.
  ([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 25970215)

- Mon groupe a **proposé** d'importants amendements aux deux rapports que nous examinons aujourd'hui.
  My Group has made extensive **amendments** to both reports up for debate today.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 362)

- Les modifications **proposées** adaptent les méthodes en question au progrès scientifique et technique.
  Those **amendments** adapt the methods in question to scientific and technical progress.
  ([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 1883240)

## More sentences

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

- Personne n'était capable de **proposer** une solution.
  Nobody was able to suggest a solution.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and CK · checked, community translation · [\#276617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/276617) [\#119858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/119858))

- Que croyiez-vous que j'allais **proposer** ?
  What did you think I was going to suggest?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3127888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3127888) [\#5955762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5955762))

- Une manière répandue de financer un déficit est de **proposer** des obligations.
  A common way to finance a budget deficit is to issue bonds.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and CK · checked, community translation · [\#244270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244270) [\#1538517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538517))

## Grammar

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