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# from — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: from (2 539 704), froms (1). By style: everyday 6 489 · literary 928 · biblical 3 470 · parliamentary 144 743 · legal and administrative 368 617 · UN documents 2 015 458.

## vous

Used about 44 996 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 135 · literary ≈ 135 · biblical ≈ 578 · parliamentary ≈ 3 015 · UN documents ≈ 41 132).

- You're prohibited **from** smoking here.
  Il **vous** est interdit de fumer ici.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and JumJum · checked, community translation · [\#8983626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8983626) [\#10086782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10086782))

- “Where do you come **from**?”
  --De quel pays êtes-**vous**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12425)

- Depart **from** me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
  Éloignez-**vous** de moi, méchants, Afin que j’observe les commandements de mon Dieu!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:115)

- Thus it is that we come before you today, highlighting this Year of Intercultural Dialogue, bringing parables **from** the natural world to affirm your transcendent human values.
  Nous sommes donc ici devant **vous** aujourd'hui, célébrant cette Année du dialogue interculturel, et vous apportons les paraboles du monde naturel pour affirmer nos valeurs humaines transcendantes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1136434)

- We created you **from** male and female and divided you into peoples and tribes so that you may know each other.
  Nous **vous** avons procréés d &apos; un homme et d &apos; une femme; nous vous avons partagés en familles et en tribus, afin que vous vous connaissiez entre vous.
  ([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 7878143)

## More sentences

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

- What's that strange smell coming **from** the kitchen?
  C'est quoi cette drôle d'odeur qui vient de la cuisine ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3271525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3271525) [\#3271526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3271526))

- I got fired **from** my job.
  Je me suis fait virer de mon travail.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6666528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6666528) [\#12773636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12773636))

- Do not fear the heavens and the earth, but be afraid of hearing a person **from** Wenzhou speak in their local tongue.
  Ne crains pas le ciel et la terre, mais redoute d'entendre une personne de Wenzhou parler dans sa langue locale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#702591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/702591) [\#702546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/702546))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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