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# letter — English to French

How English *letter* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: letter (175 128), letters (36 591). By style: everyday 1 188 · literary 78 · biblical 81 · parliamentary 3 636 · legal and administrative 19 437 · UN documents 187 299.

## lettre

Used about 171 479 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 126 · literary ≈ 73 · biblical ≈ 76 · parliamentary ≈ 2 765 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 210 · UN documents ≈ 150 229). Forms: lettre, lettres.

- Tom burned the **letter**.
  Tom a brûlé la **lettre**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1492144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1492144) [\#1492780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1492780))

- Marius took the **letter**.
  Marius prit la **lettre**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24827)

- He wrote a **letter** like this:
  Il écrivit une **lettre** ainsi conçue:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 23:25)

- What is in this **letter**?
  Qu'y a-t-il dans cette **lettre**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1861529)

- **letters** of credit and guarantees;
  les **lettres** de crédit et les garanties;
  ([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 1774119)

## président

Used about 5 853 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 853).

- They take note of the intention expressed in your **letter**.
  Le **Président** du Conseil de sécurité
  ([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 30184391)

- **Letter** dated 13 November 1997 from the Executive Chairman of the
  de contrôle et de vérification de Bagdad par le **Président** exécutif
  ([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 4253961)

- Identical **letters** dated 9 March 2013 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council
  au Secrétaire général et au **Président** du Conseil de sécurité par le Représentant permanent de la République arabe syrienne auprès de l &apos; Organisation des Nations Unies
  ([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 26997050)

## vous

Used about 303 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 303).

- I have half a dozen **letters** like that, which I shall not force you to listen to.
  J'en ai une demi-douzaine comme celle-là dont je **vous** épargnerai la lecture.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 885948)

- Unfortunately, I will not be able to be there, but I will send you a **letter** on that occasion.
  Malheureusement, je ne pourrai être présent, mais je **vous** enverrai un courrier pour cette occasion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1362202)

- I can tell you here and now that Rules 4 and 5 of the Rules of Procedure will be applied, and applied to the **letter**.
  Je **vous** assure que les articles 4 et 5 du Règlement sont pleinement respectés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1600758)

- I therefore fail to see why you should append the position of one particular group to the **letter**.
  Par conséquent, je ne vois pas tellement pourquoi **vous** devriez y annexer la position d' un groupe en particulier.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 44842)

- I ask you for an assurance that the recorded vote for Thursday will be corrected in accordance with the two **letters** I have sent.
  Je **vous** demande aujourd'hui de vous assurer que le vote du jeudi soit corrigé en conséquence.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1767464)

## je

Used about 156 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 152).

- In the morning I write love **letters**; in the evening I dig graves.
  Le matin j'écris des billets doux, le soir **je** creuse des fosses.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12092)

- I do not believe a word of these **letters**!
  **Je** n'en crois pas un mot!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 989846)

- Runic **letters** appearing to my mind to be an invention of the learned to mystify this poor world, I was not sorry to see my uncle suffering the pangs of mystification.
  Comme le runique me paraissait être une invention de savants pour mystifier le pauvre monde, **je** ne fus pas fâché de voir que mon oncle n'y comprenait rien.
  ([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 115)

- However, I have contacted some of the Member States by **letter** to try to speed up the process.
  **Je** me suis néanmoins adressé par écrit à certains États membres afin que la procédure soit accélérée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1968860)

- “Yes, madame, the **letter** of the law is explicit, and, assuming the consent I promised you, it affords me absolute certainty that the matter we discussed will come to a happy conclusion within three months.”
  --Oui, Madame, les textes de loi sont formels et me donnent, avec l'assentiment que **je** vous avais annoncé, l'absolue certitude qu'avant trois mois l'affaire dont nous nous sommes entretenus recevra une heureuse solution.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1677)

## More sentences

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

- A French citizen has two equally formidable kinds of enemies: those who break the law, and those who obey it to the **letter**.
  Un citoyen français a deux sortes d'ennemis également redoutables : ceux qui violent les lois et ceux qui les observent avec rigueur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#11201664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11201664) [\#925943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/925943))

- She cried as she read the **letter**.
  Elle a pleuré en lisant la carte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#388697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/388697) [\#486828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486828))

- The postman delivers **letters** every morning.
  Le facteur distribue le courrier tous les matins.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and superbolo · checked, community translation · [\#324535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324535) [\#393429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/393429))

## 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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