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# veiller — French to English

How French *veiller* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: veillaient (98), veillait (264), veille (26 340), veillent (13 671), veiller (137 764), veilles (195), veillez (200), veillons (395), veillé (2 524), veillée (42), veillées (23), veillés (1). By style: everyday 144 · literary 32 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 10 635 · legal and administrative 25 403 · UN documents 145 228.

## ensure

Used about 65 274 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 672 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 647 · UN documents ≈ 43 954). Forms: ensure, ensured. Meaning: [ensure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ensure/).

- **Veillons** tous à la préserver.
  Let us **ensure** that we all protect this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 276846)

- Les États membres **veillent** à ce que:
  Member States shall **ensure** that:
  ([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 1687955)

- **Veillons** à les respecter.
  Let us **ensure** that they are implemented.
  ([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 16542381)

- Nous devons **veiller** à l' aspect "value for money".
  We must **ensure** value for money.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 294913)

- La Commission **veille** à ce que la liste soit à jour.
  The Commission shall **ensure** that that list is kept up to date.
  ([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 2046612)

## More sentences

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

- Vous ne devez pas **veiller** tard.
  You must not stay up late.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#324026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324026) [\#4860551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4860551))

- Je ne faisais que **veiller** sur toi.
  I was just looking out for you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Akenaseryan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3917392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3917392) [\#8088544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8088544))

- Maman dit que j'ai le droit de **veiller** jusqu'à dix heures et demie.
  Mom says I'm allowed to stay up until 10:30.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13017262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017262) [\#13017256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017256))

## 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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