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# inform — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: inform (73 802), informs (3 696). By style: everyday 29 · literary 2 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 3 349 · legal and administrative 17 915 · UN documents 56 197.

## informer

Used about 40 261 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 1 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 503 · UN documents ≈ 26 342). Forms: informe, informer.

- We must **inform** him.
  Nous devons l'**informer**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12053746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12053746) [\#1559742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1559742))

- I therefore really entreat you to **inform** yourselves on this issue.
  Je vous invite donc à vous **informer** correctement sur le sujet.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 465806)

- He **informs** the complainant and the institution concerned.
  Il **informe** le plaignant et l'institution concernée.
  ([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 625952)

- The latter **informs** all the authorities concerned.
  Celui-ci en **informe** toutes les autorités concernées.
  ([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 331614)

- We must **inform** her.
  Nous devons l'**informer**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12053745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12053745) [\#1559742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1559742))

## More sentences

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

- **Inform** me of the details.
  Informez-moi des détails.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JumJum and Oblivious · checked, community translation · [\#10087652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10087652) [\#914871](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/914871))

- She didn't **inform** me.
  Elle ne m'a pas informé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13681103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13681103) [\#13681119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13681119))

- Did you **inform** your teacher of this?
  As-tu prévenu ton professeur de cela ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Romira · checked, community translation · [\#272815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/272815) [\#181013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181013))

## 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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