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# languages — English to French

How English *languages* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: languages (66 035). By style: everyday 487 · literary 1 · biblical 31 · parliamentary 2 949 · legal and administrative 6 337 · UN documents 56 230.

## langues

Used about 57 356 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 467 · biblical ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 2 888 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 941 · UN documents ≈ 48 030). Forms: langue, langues.

- He can speak ten **languages**.
  Il parle dix **langues**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jshholland and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#4306290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4306290) [\#993982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/993982))

- I thank my God, I speak with other **languages** more than you all.
  Je rends grâces à Dieu de ce que je parle en **langue** plus que vous tous;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:18)

- There are three **languages**.
  Il y a trois **langues**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1489091)

- Please fill it in in one of the following **languages**.
  Remplissez-le dans une des **langues** suivantes:
  ([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 4356972)

- (ii) Using standardized **languages**
  ii) l &apos; utilisation de **langues** normalisées;
  ([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 26809719)

## officielles

Used about 1 171 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 171). Forms: officiel, officielles.

- You may notice that for statements made in **languages** other than English, excerpts in the compilation are only unofficial translations.
  Vous noterez que, pour les déclarations prononcées dans une langue autre que l &apos; anglais, les extraits figurant dans la compilation sont des traductions non **officielles**.
  ([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 15092789)

## foi

Used about 132 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 132).

- Done at Ilulissat on this third day of October, 2018, in a single original, in the Chinese, English, French and Russian **languages**, each text being equally authentic.
  Fait à Ilulissat le trois octobre deux mille dix-huit en un seul original, dont les versions anglaise, chinoise, française et russe font également **foi**.
  ([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 311943)

## More sentences

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

- Interpreted **languages** such as Ruby or Lua are not compiled and so they need some kind of execution engine.
  Les langages interprétés comme Ruby ou Lua ne sont pas compilés et nécessitent par conséquent une sorte de moteur d'exécution.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by see and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11294642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11294642) [\#945519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/945519))

- For example, C, C++, Rust and Zig are compiled programming **languages**.
  Par exemple, C, C++, Rust et Zig sont des langages de programmation compilés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14074877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14074877) [\#14074878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14074878))

- "Is the child dumb?" cried the Professor, who, proud of his knowledge of many **languages**, now tried French: "Comment appellet-on cette montagne, mon enfant?"
  «Est-il donc muet?» s'écria le professeur, qui, très fier de son polyglottisme, recommença la même demande en français.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 4024)

## 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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