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# documents — English to French

How English *documents* 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: documents (220 571). By style: everyday 62 · literary 5 · parliamentary 4 960 · legal and administrative 24 066 · UN documents 191 478.

## documents

Used about 204 466 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 57 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 340 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 556 · UN documents ≈ 179 511).

- Tom signed the **documents**.
  Tom signa les **documents**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pititnatole · checked, community translation · [\#2644810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2644810) [\#5390632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5390632))

- On reading history, on studying him, especially in the **documents** and materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes of Marius was gradually rent.
  En lisant l'histoire, en l'étudiant surtout dans les **documents** et les matériaux, le voile qui couvrait Napoléon aux yeux de Marius se déchira peu à peu.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13609)

- **Documents** received: see Minutes
  Dépôt de **documents**: cf. procès-verbal
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 894370)

- Forwarding of **documents** to group members
  Transmission de **documents** aux membres du groupe
  ([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 1140662)

- - an examination of the **documents**; or
  - par un contrôle des **documents**; ou
  ([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 15533554)

## More sentences

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

- Whose **documents** are these?
  À qui sont ces papiers ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#8723253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8723253) [\#6981774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6981774))

- I need a pen to sign the car insurance **documents**.
  Il me faut un stylo pour signer les papiers d'assurance pour la voiture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Toynop · checked, community translation · [\#5790166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5790166) [\#5798360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5798360))

- She disappeared with no **documents**.
  Elle disparut sans pièce d'identité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marco87 and marco87 · checked, community translation · [\#1506185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1506185) [\#1506192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1506192))

## 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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