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# should — French to English

How French *should* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts.

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: should (26 701). By style: parliamentary 9 · legal and administrative 29 · UN documents 26 663.

## More sentences

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

- rapporteur. - (DE) Monsieur le Président, je souhaite remplacer, dans l'amendement 26, dans la deuxième phrase de la deuxième partie, le mot could par le mot **should**.
  Mr President, in Amendment 26, second part, second sentence, I should like to replace the word 'could' with 'should'.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 941474)

- (EN) "**should** not seek to include", nous devrions écrire que l'Union européenne "**should** deal carefully with these issues".
  ... 'should not seek to include', we should say that the EU 'should deal carefully with these issues'.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 932495)

- Les mots "must not" devraient être remplacés par "**should** not".
  The words 'must not' should be replaced by 'should not'.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1584627)

## 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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