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# credit — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: credit (68 585), credits (12 941). By style: everyday 113 · literary 9 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 4 092 · legal and administrative 33 391 · UN documents 43 918.

## crédit

Used about 59 448 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 99 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 771 · legal and administrative ≈ 30 956 · UN documents ≈ 25 619). Forms: crédit, crédits.

- I pay by **credit** card.
  Je paye par carte de **crédit**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ergulis and Olcyx · checked, community translation · [\#8344091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8344091) [\#12669993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12669993))

- “On **credit**?” suggested M. Mabeuf.
  --À **crédit**? fit M. Mabeuf.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22747)

- **Credit** rating agencies (debate)
  Agences de notation de **crédit** (débat)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1456005)

- exchange of international **credits**.
  échange de **crédits** internationaux.
  ([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 2917850)

- (k) **Credit** for Young People;
  k) **Crédit** pour les jeunes;
  ([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 24213747)

## More sentences

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

- He could not **credit** her story.
  Il ne pouvait pas croire à son histoire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by halfb1t and Despear · checked, community translation · [\#2082676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2082676) [\#2082127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2082127))

- We can let you have it on **credit**.
  Nous pouvons le mettre sur votre ardoise.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#2269056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2269056) [\#9095804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9095804))

- Give **credit** where **credit** is due.
  Honneur à celui auquel l'honneur est dû.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#28569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28569) [\#545076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545076))

## 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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