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# manual — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: manual (33 594), manuals (6 678). By style: everyday 43 · parliamentary 173 · legal and administrative 5 177 · UN documents 34 879.

## manuel

Used about 35 113 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 121 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 800 · UN documents ≈ 30 156). Forms: manuel, manuelle, manuels.

- Have you read the **manual**?
  As-tu lu le **manuel** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and franlexcois · checked, community translation · [\#3356215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3356215) [\#4605111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4605111))

- There is a lack of instruction **manuals**.
  Les **manuels** d'exploitation font défaut.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1593713)

- **manual** metal arc welding;
  soudage **manuel** à l’arc;
  ([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 5018104)

- 2. Balance of Payments **Manual**
  **Manuel** de la balance des paiements
  ([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 5130142)

- Didn't you read the **manual**?
  N'as-tu pas lu le **manuel** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2395957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2395957) [\#2402438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2402438))

## More sentences

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

- You can download the instruction **manual** for the heat exchanger here.
  Vous pouvez télécharger le mode d'emploi de l'échangeur de chaleur ici.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#457147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/457147) [\#455127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/455127))

- Consult the instruction **manual** before you do anything!
  Consultez le mode d'emploi avant de faire quoi que ce soit !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#13404855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13404855) [\#10324732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10324732))

- Consult the instruction **manual** before doing anything!
  Consultez le mode d'emploi avant de faire quoi que ce soit !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#13404854](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13404854) [\#10324732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10324732))

## 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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