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# left — English to French

How English *left* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: left (53 716), lefts (2). By style: everyday 2 272 · literary 163 · biblical 333 · parliamentary 8 091 · legal and administrative 4 204 · UN documents 38 655.

## gauche

Used about 10 626 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 331 · literary ≈ 37 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 1 816 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 102 · UN documents ≈ 6 311).

- He's blind in his **left** eye.
  Il est aveugle de l'œil **gauche**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#8263460](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8263460) [\#11315562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11315562))

- “And that big, black tom-cat on the **left**?”
  --Et à **gauche**, ce gros chat noir?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4842)

- Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right hand or to the **left** from following Abner.
  il poursuivit Abner, sans se détourner de lui pour aller à droite ou à **gauche**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 2:19)

- (Applause from the **left**, protests from the right)
  (Applaudissements à **gauche**, protestations à droite)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1149570)

- Party of the European **Left**
  Parti de la **gauche** européenne
  ([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 5601586)

## quitté

Used about 7 266 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 237 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 165 · legal and administrative ≈ 526 · UN documents ≈ 6 311).

- Tom has **left** the city.
  Tom a **quitté** la ville.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Katastrauff · checked, community translation · [\#2547016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2547016) [\#7723618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7723618))

- “**Left** Paris, Thursday, at 8.40 a.m.
  «**Quitté** Paris, jeudi, 8 heures 40 matin.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 396)

- Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have **left** everything and followed you. What then will we have?”
  Pierre, prenant alors la parole, lui dit: Voici, nous avons tout **quitté**, et nous t’avons suivi; qu’en sera-t-il pour nous?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 19:27)

- Mr Ferber has now **left** the room.
  Le député Ferber a **quitté** la salle, maintenant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1802578)

- having **left** it, has returned.
  y est revenue après l'avoir **quitté**.
  ([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 3207741)

## reste

Used about 3 241 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 189 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 660 · UN documents ≈ 2 367).

- I don't have anything **left**.
  Il ne me **reste** rien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8923162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8923162) [\#8411231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8411231))

- “I have ten francs **left**,” said Marius.
  --Il me **reste** dix francs, dit Marius.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14724)

- David said, “Is there yet any who is **left** of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
  David dit: **Reste**-t-il encore quelqu’un de la maison de Saül, pour que je lui fasse du bien à cause de Jonathan?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 9:1)

- There are twelve days **left** until the commencement of the Seattle meeting.
  Il **reste** douze jours avant l' ouverture de la Conférence de Seattle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2032879)

- If a high proportion of the household expenditure is devoted to food, then very little is **left** to satisfy other needs.
  Si cette part est élevée, il **reste** donc très peu pour couvrir les autres besoins.
  ([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 18000549)

## laissé

Used about 2 907 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 284 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 826 · legal and administrative ≈ 175 · UN documents ≈ 1 578).

- He **left** a window open.
  Il a **laissé** une fenêtre ouverte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5362370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5362370) [\#8027024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8027024))

- “It is a paper that those gentlemen **left** for these ladies.”
  --C'est un papier que ces messieurs ont **laissé** pour ces dames.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3199)

- So the woman **left** her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,
  Alors la femme, ayant **laissé** sa cruche, s’en alla dans la ville, et dit aux gens:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 4:28)

- That would have **left** us time to consider other questions in peace.
  Cela nous aurait **laissé** le temps de réfléchir calmement aux autres questions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2035602)

- ‘If the rating is not available the item shall be **left** blank.’.
  «Si la notation n'est pas disponible, l'élément est **laissé** vide.»
  ([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 4432624)

## droite

Used about 3 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3).

- At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel which he held in his **left** hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh.
  En même temps il tendit son bras et posa sur la chair nue le ciseau ardent qu'il tenait dans sa main **droite** par le manche de bois.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17762)

## More sentences

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

- There are few high-ranking positions **left** open for you.
  Il y a quelques postes de haut niveau disponibles pour vous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#17526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17526) [\#477380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/477380))

- I thought you'd **left**.
  Je pensais que vous étiez partie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1961829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1961829) [\#2053683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2053683))

- We shouldn't have **left** Tom alone in the garage.
  Nous n'aurions pas dû laisser Tom tout seul dans le garage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Wakano · checked, community translation · [\#2208762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2208762) [\#2296234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2296234))

## 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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