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# consult — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: consult (21 934), consults (556). By style: everyday 33 · literary 5 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 804 · legal and administrative 3 399 · UN documents 18 245.

## consulter

Used about 15 751 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 439 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 361 · UN documents ≈ 12 924). Forms: consulte, consulter.

- He has nobody to **consult**.
  Il n'a personne à **consulter**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#300853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300853) [\#4711225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4711225))

- “You come to **consult** me, master, and upon what science?”
  «Vous venez me **consulter**, maître, et sur quelle science?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2425)

- or a charmer, or someone who **consults** with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
  d’enchanteur, personne qui **consulte** ceux qui évoquent les esprits ou disent la bonne aventure, personne qui interroge les morts.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 18:11)

- One simply **consults** the bank.
  On ne fait que **consulter** la banque.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1851852)

- The SRB should **consult** the DPO during the revisions,
  Le CRU doit **consulter** le DPD pendant les révisions,
  ([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 4881281)

## More sentences

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

- Why don't you **consult** a lawyer?
  Pourquoi ne consultez-vous pas un avocat ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#320436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/320436) [\#9763639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9763639))

- Why don't you **consult** a lawyer?
  Pourquoi ne consultes-tu pas un avocat ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#320436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/320436) [\#1423980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1423980))

- When in doubt, **consult** a dictionary.
  En cas de doute, consultez un dictionnaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8917061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8917061) [\#8918378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8918378))

## 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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