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# vers — French to English

How French *vers* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: vers (182 138). By style: everyday 670 · literary 256 · biblical 840 · parliamentary 17 591 · legal and administrative 31 140 · UN documents 131 641.

## towards

Used about 41 849 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 107 · parliamentary ≈ 4 764 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 298 · UN documents ≈ 35 653).

- Le monde avec lenteur marche **vers** la sagesse.
  The world slowly walks **towards** wisdom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#6388409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6388409) [\#5072763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5072763))

- L'égyptienne s'avança **vers** la noble dame.
  The gypsy advanced **towards** the noble dame.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3732)

- Qu'ils s'engagent au contraire de manière proactive à mener leur pays **vers** un meilleur avenir.
  They should, rather, engage proactively to lead their country **towards** a better future.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1200966)

- Le marché des radars à courte portée pour automobile évolue de façon constante **vers** de nouveaux déploiements dans la bande de fréquences 77-81 GHz harmonisée au niveau de l'Union.
  There is a steady trend in the market development for automotive short-range radars **towards** new deployments in the 77-81 GHz frequency band harmonised at Union level.
  ([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 4816468)

- limite **vers** le vert y 0,150 + 0,640 x
  limit **towards** green y 0.150 + 0.640 x
  ([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 17461918)

## there

Used about 11 072 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 88 · UN documents ≈ 10 970). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- Tournez **vers** le nord et à la deuxième ruelle vous voilà arrivé.
  Turn north, walk to the second alley, and you're **there**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and weihaiping · checked, community translation · [\#12627168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12627168) [\#691423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/691423))

- Au son de la trompette, rassemblez-vous auprès de nous, **vers** le lieu d’où vous l’entendrez; notre Dieu combattra pour nous.
  Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally **there** to us. Our God will fight for us.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 4:20)

- Je sais qu &apos; il n &apos; y a pas de méthode simple pour réaliser ce progrès, qu &apos; il n &apos; existe pas de chemin unique **vers** le succès.
  I know **there** is no straight line to that progress, no single path to success.
  ([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 23745389)

- Tous les fleuves vont à la mer, et la mer n’est point remplie; ils continuent à aller **vers** le lieu où ils se dirigent.
  All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, **there** they flow again.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 1:7)

- NE PAS installer de siège pour enfant tourné **vers** l &apos; arrière sur le siège avant/arrière \*, qui est équipé d &apos; un coussin gonflable
  WARNING DO NOT place rear-facing child seat on front/rear \* seat as **there** is an airbag
  ([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 9870687)

## came

Used about 2 893 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 123 · UN documents ≈ 2 743).

- Il est venu **vers** deux heures.
  He **came** about two.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fengrim and CK · checked, community translation · [\#302156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/302156) [\#139052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139052))

- Alors Jésus vint de la Galilée au Jourdain **vers** Jean, pour être baptisé par lui.
  Then Jesus **came** from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 3:13)

- 2) L &apos; absence de structures adaptées à l &apos; accueil des immigrés avant leur refoulement **vers** leur pays d &apos; origine.
  (2) The lack of facilities for accommodating immigrants before they are returned to the countries from which they **came**.
  ([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 735934)

- Le chien vint **vers** moi en courant.
  The dog **came** running to me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#48247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/48247) [\#333958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/333958))

- Plusieurs des Juifs qui étaient venus **vers** Marie, et qui virent ce que fit Jésus, crurent en lui.
  Therefore many of the Jews who **came** to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 11:45)

## More sentences

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

- Que ferons-nous la semaine prochaine, **vers** cette heure-ci ?
  What do you want to do this time next week?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#3201121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3201121) [\#3198720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3198720))

- Dan a persuadé Linda de revenir avec lui **vers** Londres.
  Dan persuaded Linda to return with him to London.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#3994913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3994913) [\#3994946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3994946))

- Les cavaliers sont les plus puissants près du centre de l'échiquier, d'où ils peuvent se déplacer **vers** l'une des huit cases.
  Knights are most powerful near the center of the board, from where they can move to any of eight squares.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10281936](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10281936) [\#10281938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10281938))

## 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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