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# indicate — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: indicate (69 931), indicates (31 496). By style: everyday 33 · literary 6 · parliamentary 2 575 · legal and administrative 16 764 · UN documents 82 049.

## indique

Used about 52 999 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 912 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 748 · UN documents ≈ 39 315). Forms: indique, indiquer.

- The arrow **indicates** the way to go.
  La flèche **indique** la voie à suivre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#324147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324147) [\#135462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135462))

- All these turns which he was making through the streets seemed to **indicate** that he was not a simple and honest man.
  Tous ces détours qu'il faisait dans les rues semblaient **indiquer** que ce n'était pas un simple bonhomme.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10233)

- There is nothing to **indicate** that this is the case.
  Rien n'**indique** que tel est le cas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1057086)

- **Indicates** end of the record
  **Indique** la fin de l’enregistrement
  ([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 5228644)

- 165. Reports should also **indicate**, inter alia:
  165. Il faudrait **indiquer** notamment:
  ([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 12363313)

## More sentences

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

- Not surprisingly, most Lojban contributors **indicate** no country in their profiles.
  Sans surprise, la plupart des contributeurs en lojban n'indiquent aucun pays d'origine dans leur profil.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4730826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4730826) [\#1724428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1724428))

- That car didn't **indicate** it was going to turn right.
  Cette voiture n'a pas indiqué qu'elle allait tourner à droite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8817749](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8817749) [\#8817776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8817776))

- Please, can you **indicate** this to me on the map?
  S'il vous plaît, indiquez-le-moi sur la carte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and eS · checked, community translation · [\#2232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2232) [\#4073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4073))

## 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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