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# freely — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: freely (22 590). By style: everyday 23 · literary 6 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 1 626 · legal and administrative 1 432 · UN documents 19 487.

## librement

Used about 16 073 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 134 · UN documents ≈ 13 803).

- Each can decide **freely**.
  Chacun peut décider **librement**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1738587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1738587) [\#1147216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1147216))

- While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed **freely** at each other.
  Pendant que le grand-père, en pleine effusion lyrique, s'écoutait lui-même, Cosette et Marius s'enivraient de se regarder **librement**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29333)

- “Brothers, I may tell you **freely** of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
  Hommes frères, qu’il me soit permis de vous dire **librement**, au sujet du patriarche David, qu’il est mort, qu’il a été enseveli, et que son sépulcre existe encore aujourd’hui parmi nous.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 2:29)

- No, the goods move **freely**.
  Non, les marchandises circulent **librement**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1032745)

- they are **freely** transferable without any legal constraint or third party claims;
  ils sont **librement** cessibles, sans aucune restriction juridique ni droit de tiers;
  ([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 3360785)

## More sentences

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

- The JMdict/EDICT project has as its goal the production of a **freely** available Japanese-English Dictionary in machine-readable form.
  Le projet JMdict/EDICT a pour but de produire un dictionnaire japonais-anglais gratuit dans un format lisible par les ordinateurs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#398093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/398093) [\#398094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/398094))

- Close your eyes, relax and let your imagination and emotions run **freely**.
  Fermez les yeux, détendez-vous et laissez libre cours à votre imagination et à vos émotions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10450019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10450019) [\#10450025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10450025))

- The source code is **freely** available.
  Le code source est libre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by see and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11294659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11294659) [\#1339967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339967))

## 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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