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# utiliser — French to English

How French *utiliser* 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: utilisaient (2 075), utilisait (1 543), utilise (19 867), utilisent (19 358), utiliser (112 941), utilises (670), utilisez (370), utilisons (959), utilisé (75 431), utilisée (47 456), utilisées (67 814), utilisés (99 576). By style: everyday 1 207 · parliamentary 23 487 · legal and administrative 121 456 · UN documents 301 910.

## use

Used about 310 605 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 033 · parliamentary ≈ 15 584 · legal and administrative ≈ 93 239 · UN documents ≈ 200 749). Forms: use, used. Meaning: [use in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/use/).

- Tu **utilises** Skype ?
  Do you **use** Skype?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8297517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8297517) [\#11509147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11509147))

- J’**utilise** aussi de l’ail.
  I also **use** garlic.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 537366)

- Les États membres **utilisent**:
  Member States shall **use**:
  ([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 2598873)

- a. Oui, et nous l &apos; **utilisons**
  a. Yes and we **use** it
  ([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 22747290)

- **Utilises**-tu Skype ?
  Do you **use** Skype?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8297517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8297517) [\#9754040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9754040))

## using

Used about 40 760 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 85 · parliamentary ≈ 2 590 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 305 · UN documents ≈ 27 780).

- Est-ce que vous **utilisez** cela ?
  Are you **using** that?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#4487396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4487396) [\#7816971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7816971))

- Elle **utilise** les moyens de l'OTAN.
  It is **using** NATO resources.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 433432)

- Par conséquent, certaines sociétés n’**utilisaient** pas les capacités dont elles disposaient.
  Therefore some companies have not been **using** the capacity they have installed.
  ([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 2931242)

- Aujourd &apos; hui, nous **utilisons** Visual Basic 6 (VB6).
  Today we are **using** Visual Basic 6 (VB6).
  ([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 9063194)

- Quel navigateur **utilises**-tu ?
  What browser are you **using**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and WestofEden · checked, community translation · [\#2659659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2659659) [\#632245](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/632245))

## More sentences

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

- Il est préférable d'**utiliser** les appels téléphoniques à l'international pour communiquer seulement d'individu à individu.
  It's best to make international calls person to person.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nucleos and CK · checked, community translation · [\#246268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246268) [\#748268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/748268))

- Essaie d'**utiliser** au mieux ton temps.
  Try to make the most of your time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#264011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264011) [\#333321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/333321))

- La Russie **utilise** des bombardiers stratégiques.
  Russia operates strategic bombers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10767123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10767123) [\#12493531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493531))

## 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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