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# authors — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: authors (22 352). By style: everyday 24 · literary 1 · parliamentary 768 · legal and administrative 321 · UN documents 21 238.

## auteurs

Used about 19 471 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 608 · legal and administrative ≈ 261 · UN documents ≈ 18 583).

- I know the **authors**.
  Je connais les **auteurs**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by araneo and sicerabibax · checked, community translation · [\#13701555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13701555) [\#4708702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4708702))

- In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged **authors**, may obtaine my exclusion from the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which newcomers are treated.
  «Malgré ces qualités j'ai lieu de craindre que la jalousie, l'égoïsme des **auteurs** privilégiés, obtienne mon exclusion du théâtre, car je n'ignore pas les déboires dont on abreuve les nouveaux venus.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15878)

- 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)

- Services provided by **authors**
  Services prestés par les **auteurs**
  ([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 1497362)

- Handbook structure and **authors**
  Structure du guide et **auteurs**
  ([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 19020308)

## 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))

- This sentence has no **authors**.
  Cette phrase n'a pas d'auteur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and dafp · checked, community translation · [\#737519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/737519) [\#2009806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2009806))

## 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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