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# letters — English to French

How English *letters* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: letters (36 591). By style: everyday 226 · literary 32 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 685 · legal and administrative 5 091 · UN documents 30 523.

## lettres

Used about 28 006 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 212 · literary ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 499 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 349 · UN documents ≈ 22 892).

- I have to send these **letters**.
  Je dois envoyer ces **lettres**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1744766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1744766) [\#7554960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7554960))

- He had his **letters** addressed to Courfeyrac’s quarters.
  Il se faisait adresser ses **lettres** chez Courfeyrac.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14770)

- that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my **letters**.
  afin que je ne paraisse pas vouloir vous intimider par mes **lettres**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 10:9)

- I do not think **letters** are sufficient.
  Je ne pense pas que les **lettres** suffisent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1620052)

- **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)

## More sentences

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

- 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))

- Write your name in capital **letters**.
  Écrivez votre nom en majuscules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#275957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275957) [\#333137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/333137))

- Toki Pona uses capital **letters** only for names.
  Toki pona utilise des majuscules uniquement pour les noms.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11011268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11011268) [\#11011319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11011319))

## 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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