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# voir — French to English

How French *voir* 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: voir (341 477), voire (25 663), voirs (38). By style: everyday 3 034 · literary 183 · biblical 155 · parliamentary 22 453 · legal and administrative 41 028 · UN documents 300 325.

## see

Used about 123 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 439 · literary ≈ 95 · biblical ≈ 90 · parliamentary ≈ 7 952 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 087 · UN documents ≈ 94 132). Meaning: [see in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/see/).

- Puis-je **voir** ça ?
  Can I **see** that?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1886275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886275) [\#1996520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1996520))

- —Tu vas le **voir**.»
  "You will **see** presently."
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1472)

- Et il regardait autour de lui, pour **voir** celle qui avait fait cela.
  He looked around to **see** her who had done this thing.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 5:32)

- Dépôt de documents: **voir** procès-verbal
  Documents received: **see** Minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1074518)

- **Voir** www.glencore.com
  **See** www.glencore.com
  ([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 803658)

## pou

Used about 76 202 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 76 202).

- La Commission de vérification des pou- **voirs** se réunira le mardi 30 juillet 1996.
  La Commission de vérification des **pou**- voirs se réunira le mardi 30 juillet 1996.
  ([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 3073066)

- La Conférence adopte ensuite le projet de résolution fi-gurant dans le rapport du Bureau sur la vérification des pou-**voirs**.
  La Conférence adopte ensuite le projet de résolution fi-gurant dans le rapport du Bureau sur la vérification des **pou**-voirs.
  ([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 2110575)

- \* Une table ronde sur l &apos; application d &apos; Action 21 et les pou-**voirs** locaux aura lieu à l &apos; issue de la 11e séance de la Commis-sion.
  \* Une table ronde sur l &apos; application d &apos; Action 21 et les **pou**-voirs locaux aura lieu à l &apos; issue de la 11e séance de la Commis-sion.
  ([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 2111299)

- Elle est saisie du rapport du Bureau sur la vérification des pou-**voirs** des représentants des parties à la première session de la Conférence des parties (FCCC/CP/1995/6).
  Elle est saisie du rapport du Bureau sur la vérification des **pou**-voirs des représentants des parties à la première session de la Conférence des parties (FCCC/CP/1995/6).
  ([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 2110573)

- Le Président de la Commission de vérification des pou-**voirs**, M. A.L. Daverede (Argentine), présente les rapports de cette commission figurant dans les documents A/CONF. 164/31 et A/CONF.164/34.
  Le Président de la Commission de vérification des **pou**-voirs, M. A.L. Daverede (Argentine), présente les rapports de cette commission figurant dans les documents A/CONF. 164/31 et A/CONF.164/34.
  ([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 2060219)

## More sentences

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

- Tu devrais faire **voir** ça à un médecin.
  You should have a doctor look at that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1415904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1415904) [\#1418036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1418036))

- Tu vas continuer à **voir** ton idiot de petit ami encore combien de temps ?
  How long are you going to be seeing that loser of a boyfriend?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Apex and CM · checked, community translation · [\#66949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/66949) [\#10624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10624))

- Pour aimer l’humanité, il faut la **voir** de loin.
  To love humanity, it must be viewed from afar.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and jhomel · checked, community translation · [\#5071314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5071314) [\#2837784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2837784))

## 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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