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# témoins — French to English

How French *témoins* 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: témoins (37 419). By style: everyday 22 · literary 3 · biblical 48 · parliamentary 750 · legal and administrative 2 011 · UN documents 34 585.

## witnesses

Used about 29 005 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 422 · legal and administrative ≈ 419 · UN documents ≈ 28 100). Forms: witness, witnessed, witnesses.

- Nous sommes tous **témoins**.
  We're all **witnesses**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2240814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240814) [\#4805435](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4805435))

- Du reste, l'interrogatoire de l'homme était terminé et les dépositions des **témoins**; mais il y avait encore les plaidoiries de l'avocat et le réquisitoire du ministère public; cela ne devait guère finir avant minuit.
  However, the man’s examination and the depositions of the **witnesses** had been completed, but the lawyer’s plea, and the speech of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be finished before midnight.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5851)

- Vous êtes **témoins** de ces choses.
  You are **witnesses** of these things.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 24:48)

- Nous avons tous été **témoins** des événements tragiques qui ont suivi.
  We all **witnessed** the tragic events that ensued.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1495903)

- les nom, prénoms, qualité et domicile des **témoins**;
  the surname, forenames, description and residence of the **witness**;
  ([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 1197306)

## controls

Used about 2 321 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 880 · UN documents ≈ 1 441).

- Commandes manuelles, **témoins** et indicateurs montés sur le véhicule:
  Hand **controls**, tell-tales and indicators on the vehicle:
  ([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 5551403)

- 12 a) Proposition visant à élaborer un RTM sur les commandes, les **témoins** et les indicateurs des motocycles;
  12 (a) Proposal to develop a gtr on motorcycle **controls**, tell-tales and indicators
  ([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 22844156)

- Emplacement et moyens d'identification des commandes manuelles, des **témoins** et des indicateurs
  Location and identification of hand **controls**, tell-tales and indicators
  ([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 3996319)

- Prescriptions uniformes relatives à l &apos; homologation des véhicules en ce qui concerne l &apos; emplacement et les moyens d &apos; identification des commandes manuelles, des **témoins** et des indicateurs
  Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to the location and identification of hand **controls**, tell-tales and indicators
  ([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 12794054)

- Les substances ci-après peuvent, par exemple, être utilisées comme **témoins** positifs:
  The following are examples of substances, which might be used as positive **controls**:
  ([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 1532138)

## More sentences

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

- Un témoin oculaire vaut mieux que dix **témoins** auriculaires.
  One eyewitness is better than ten earwitnesses.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#27621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/27621) [\#10024278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10024278))

- Un témoin oculaire vaut mieux que dix **témoins** auditifs.
  One eyewitness is better than ten earwitnesses.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#27621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/27621) [\#1038178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1038178))

- Les justes, **témoins** de leur chute, se réjouiront, Et l’innocent se moquera d’eux:
  The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 22:19)

## Grammar

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