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# look — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: look (41 684), looks (10 956). By style: everyday 3 828 · literary 97 · biblical 170 · parliamentary 15 755 · legal and administrative 793 · UN documents 31 997.

## air

Used about 1 411 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 236 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 164).

- He **looks** very good.
  Il a l'**air** très bien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1935385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1935385) [\#566227](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/566227))

- She put on an innocent and knowing **look**.
  Elle prit un **air** naïf et malin:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2239)

- We will see what UKIP **looks** like.
  Nous verrons de quoi l'UKIP aura l'**air**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1037093)

- He **looks** like he's glad.
  Il a l'**air** content.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7404848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7404848) [\#13378342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13378342))

- “You do not **look** very gay this evening.”
  --Vous n'avez pas l'**air** gai, ce soir.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 465)

## More sentences

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

- He was on the verge of revealing the secret when a sharp **look** from Martha shut him up.
  Il était sur le point de révéler le secret lorsqu'un regard sévère de Marthe le fit se taire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#729883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/729883) [\#800951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800951))

- They **look** like they're having fun.
  On dirait qu'ils s'amusent bien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#5391130](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5391130) [\#5391136](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5391136))

- I can **look** at it when you're ready.
  Je peux y regarder lorsque vous serez prêt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3729735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3729735) [\#4164890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4164890))

## 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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