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# author — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: author (93 427), authors (22 352). By style: everyday 140 · literary 10 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 2 376 · legal and administrative 628 · UN documents 112 622.

## auteur

Used about 104 686 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 130 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 881 · legal and administrative ≈ 601 · UN documents ≈ 102 064). Forms: auteur, auteurs.

- He's an **author**.
  C'est un **auteur**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#593248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/593248) [\#1313658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1313658))

- Who is your favorite **author**?”
  Quel est ton **auteur** favori?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3127)

- Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the **author** of eternal salvation,
  et qui, après avoir été élevé à la perfection, est devenu pour tous ceux qui lui obéissent l’**auteur** d’un salut éternel,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 5:9)

- I congratulate the **authors**.
  Je félicite les **auteurs**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1233101)

- Duration of **authors**' rights
  Durée des droits d'**auteur**
  ([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 914033)

## More sentences

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

- They are promising **authors**.
  Ce sont des auteures prometteuses.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13571044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13571044) [\#13571042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13571042))

- Even the best **authors** can be mediocre.
  Même les meilleurs écrivains peuvent être médiocres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#11886864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11886864) [\#1987151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1987151))

- One of my favorite **authors** is Herman Melville.
  L'un de mes écrivains préférés est Herman Melville.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#499907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/499907) [\#548853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/548853))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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