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# veut — French to English

How French *veut* 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: veut (35 697). By style: everyday 1 805 · literary 59 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 9 044 · legal and administrative 458 · UN documents 24 256.

## wants

Used about 7 049 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 579 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 899 · legal and administrative ≈ 57 · UN documents ≈ 505). Forms: want, wants.

- Tom **veut** le faire.
  Tom **wants** to do it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2011445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2011445) [\#7827462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7827462))

- --Il y a là quelqu'un qui **veut** vous parler.
  “There is some one who **wants** to speak with you.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23484)

- Ce même jour, quelques pharisiens vinrent lui dire: Va-t’en, pars d’ici, car Hérode **veut** te tuer.
  On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here and go away, for Herod **wants** to kill you.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 13:31)

- Il **veut** créer un nouveau modèle de société.
  He **wants** to create a new model of society.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1730938)

- Ne **veut** pas changer de statut professionnel
  Does not **want** to change professional status
  ([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 3913847)

## More sentences

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

- Le mot « rul » **veut** dire « chat » en láadan.
  "Rul" means cat in Láadan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13054720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13054720) [\#13833887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13833887))

- Je ne suis pas sûr de ce que ça **veut** dire.
  I'm not sure what it means.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2544119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2544119) [\#8285742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8285742))

- « Discours de haine », ça **veut** dire quoi ?
  What does "hate speech" mean?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#14092340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092340) [\#14092342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092342))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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