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# acid — English to French

How English *acid* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [acid in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/acid/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: acid (27 630), acids (4 546). By style: everyday 25 · literary 1 · parliamentary 224 · legal and administrative 25 311 · UN documents 6 615.

## acide

Used about 30 614 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 156 · legal and administrative ≈ 24 784 · UN documents ≈ 5 650). Forms: acide, acides.

- **Acid** attacks metal.
  L'**acide** attaque le métal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bluepie88 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#662611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662611) [\#8225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8225))

- His black frock-coat, streaked with stains of **acids** and sirups, was much too wide for his lean little person, and looked like a shabby old cassock; and the man spoke with a strong Polish accent which gave the childlike character to his thin voice, the lisping note and intonations of a young thing learning to speak.
  Sa redingote noire, tigrée de taches d'**acides** et de sirops, beaucoup trop vaste pour son corps maigre et petit, avait un aspect d'antique soutane; et l'homme parlait avec un fort accent polonais qui donnait à sa voix fluette quelque chose d'enfantin, un zézaiement et des intonations de jeune être qui commence à prononcer.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 461)

- Folic **acid** is an example.
  Le cas de l'**acide** folique en illustre bien l'utilité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 155631)

- Esters of acetic **acid**
  Esters de l'**acide** acétique
  ([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 3692116)

- D **Acids** and bases
  D Les **acides** et les bases
  ([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 29794182)

## More sentences

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

- The oceans are turning **acid**.
  Les océans s'acidifient.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1611122](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1611122) [\#1612477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1612477))

- I have **acid** reflux.
  J'ai des remontées.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AmarMecheri and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12732760](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12732760) [\#11099376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11099376))

- The elections will be the **acid** test.
  Les élections représenteront la mise à l'épreuve.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1576704)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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