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# clear — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: clear (147 423), clears (177). By style: everyday 364 · literary 30 · biblical 17 · parliamentary 35 871 · legal and administrative 9 083 · UN documents 102 235.

## claire

Used about 22 298 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 158 · literary ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 9 087 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 325 · UN documents ≈ 11 714). Forms: clair, claire.

- Was that not **clear**?
  N'était-ce pas **clair** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Grim\_fandango and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1560354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1560354) [\#1561100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1561100))

- “Oh! this one is a **clear** case also.
  --Oh! celle-là est **claire** aussi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5830)

- I think that that **clears** matters up.
  Je crois que cela devient **clair**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2036106)

- Appearance (20 % aqueous solution): **Clear** solution
  Aspect (solution aqueuse à 20 %): solution **claire**
  ([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 4462312)

- **Clear** definition of liability
  Définition **claire** de la responsabilité
  ([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 9396729)

## More sentences

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

- It's best to steer **clear** of him.
  Il vaut mieux rester à l'écart de lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#754141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/754141) [\#11927533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11927533))

- It's going to **clear** up soon.
  Ça va bientôt s'éclaircir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#20893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20893) [\#1612788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1612788))

- Let's try to **clear** up this misunderstanding.
  Essayons de dissiper ce malentendu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4265173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4265173) [\#4265955](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4265955))

## 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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