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# contacts — English to French

How English *contacts* 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: contacts (21 832). By style: everyday 12 · parliamentary 1 532 · legal and administrative 1 602 · UN documents 18 686.

## contacts

Used about 17 704 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 404 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 502 · UN documents ≈ 14 793). Forms: contact, contacts.

- I have **contacts** in the White House.
  J'ai des **contacts** à la Maison Blanche.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Mofli and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1056338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1056338) [\#11882803](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11882803))

- After all, I live there and have **contacts** there.
  Je vis sur place, j'y ai des **contacts**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 420153)

- Article 29 **Contacts** with Member States
  Article 29 **Contacts** avec les États membres
  ([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 1381595)

- **Contacts** with civil society
  **Contacts** avec la société civile
  ([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 16935118)

- When did you start wearing **contacts**?
  Quand as-tu commencé à porter des lentilles de **contact** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Petrus · checked, community translation · [\#4461732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4461732) [\#4472077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4472077))

## More sentences

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

- I fell asleep with my **contacts** in.
  Je me suis endormi avec mes lentilles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#54813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/54813) [\#11378976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11378976))

- How long have you been wearing **contacts**?
  Depuis combien de temps portez-vous des lentilles ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4461730](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4461730) [\#12471996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12471996))

- She took off her glasses and put her **contacts** in.
  Elle retira ses lunettes et mit ses lentilles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#312302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/312302) [\#862319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/862319))

## 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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