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# recevoir — French to English

How French *recevoir* 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: recevoir (60 158), recevoire (1). By style: everyday 106 · literary 11 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 2 962 · legal and administrative 5 051 · UN documents 51 991.

## receive

Used about 30 806 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 1 234 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 894 · UN documents ≈ 27 587). Forms: receive, received, receiving. Meaning: [receive in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/receive/).

- Je viens de **recevoir** ta lettre.
  I've just **received** your letter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11060286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11060286) [\#1532727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1532727))

- --Monsieur peut-il **recevoir** monsieur Marius?
  “Can Monsieur **receive** M. Marius?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22412)

- Et il les regardait attentivement, s’attendant à **recevoir** d’eux quelque chose.
  He listened to them, expecting to **receive** something from them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 3:5)

- Nous venons de **recevoir** cette réponse en principe.
  We have just **received** this response in principle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1318526)

- capables de **recevoir** et de décoder des signaux RDS (système de décodage d'informations routières)
  Capable of **receiving** and decoding digital radio data system signals
  ([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 3697697)

## get

Used about 1 327 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 247 · UN documents ≈ 1 061). Meaning: [get in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/get/).

- On ne sait jamais ce qu'on va **recevoir**.
  You never know what you'll **get**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12945774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12945774) [\#12945770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12945770))

- Au temps de la récolte, il envoya un serviteur vers les vignerons, pour **recevoir** d’eux une part du produit de la vigne.
  When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to **get** from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 12:2)

- Nous sommes censés **recevoir** l'aide du Fonds de solidarité de l'Union européenne.
  We are likely to **get** assistance from the European Solidarity Fund.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 995208)

- Le Bureau et le Comité pourraient **recevoir** plus de contributions du Réseau si ce dernier était davantage associé aux réunions du Bureau.
  The Bureau and the Committee could **get** more input from the Network if it were more closely involved in the Bureau &apos; s meetings.
  ([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 9398468)

- On ne sait jamais ce que l'on va **recevoir**.
  You never know what you'll **get**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12945774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12945774) [\#12945776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12945776))

## More sentences

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

- Je viens de **recevoir** ta lettre.
  I've just got your letter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11060288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11060288) [\#1532727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1532727))

- Nous devrions les **recevoir** demain.
  We should be hosting them tomorrow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11900940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11900940) [\#8661070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8661070))

- J'attends de **recevoir** votre lettre avec impatience.
  I'm looking forward to getting your letter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quetucrois and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2537021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2537021) [\#1490795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1490795))

## 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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