Sell, run off, flow out - Écouler (The 2155th Most Common French Word)

The translation for Sell, run off, flow out in French is Écouler. This word often comes up when talking about shops & services, cooperation. It can be used as verb. It is the 2155th most commonly used word in French, classified as a B1 word. You can listen to their pronunciations, and you can also see example sentences for context below. Download our app to practice the 3000 most common French words, including this one, with over 60,000 example sentences, pronunciations, and various practice types.

Pronunciation

English: sell, run off, flow out

French: écouler

Examples


He decides to sell them for his own benefit.	Il décide de les écouler à son propre profit.
Abundant harvests inflated stocks that were impossible to sell.	Les récoltes abondantes font gonfler des stocks devenus impossibles à écouler.
Bandrefam has a local market where villagers go to sell their products.	Bandrefam abrite un marché local où les villageois viennent écouler leurs produits.
In so doing, farmers are discouraged from selling their output to unscrupulous traders.	Les agriculteurs ne sont ainsi pas encouragés à écouler leur production auprès de négociants malhonnêtes.
Western farmers will be able to sell their wheat.	Les fermiers de l'Ouest vont pouvoir écouler leur blé.
It is essential that these countries have access to markets where they can sell their products.	Il est fondamental que ces pays puissent accéder aux marchés où ils pourraient écouler leurs produits.
Which means we only have to sell about a half million brake pads in the next ten days, or else the factory is going under.	On doit donc écouler un demi-million de plaquettes en dix jours ou l'usine va couler.
The first indicates their strong incentive to find the markets for selling their production.	Le premier élément indique un intérêt important à trouver les marchés pour écouler leur production.

People who commercialize on fear, scare you to death to sell you something...	Ceux qui vous effraient pour écouler leurs marchandises inutiles.
There's still lots of old Soviet arsenal to be sold off.	Il reste beaucoup d'armes soviétiques à écouler.
I'm a bit drunk.	Je n'ai plus toute ma tête.
I run my own business.	Je fais tourner ma propre affaire.
He runs faster than I.	Il court plus vite que moi.
He runs very fast.	Il court très vite.
How fast he runs	Comme il court vite.
The dog runs fast.	Ce chien court vite.
He runs.	Il court.
He runs fast.	Il court vite.
This dog runs very fast	Ce chien court très vite.
He can run as fast as you.	Il court aussi vite que toi.
A dog runs.	Un chien court.