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# message — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: message (27 993), messages (14 629). By style: everyday 343 · literary 1 · biblical 32 · parliamentary 6 865 · legal and administrative 5 564 · UN documents 29 817.

## messages

Used about 37 918 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 304 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 753 · UN documents ≈ 26 711). Forms: message, messages.

- I have a **message**.
  J'ai un **message**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Elephantastique · checked, community translation · [\#2358760](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2358760) [\#2705117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2705117))

- One who sends a **message** by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
  Il se coupe les pieds, il boit l’injustice, Celui qui donne des **messages** à un insensé.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 26:6)

- This, in my view, is a crucial **message**.
  Selon moi, c’est un **message** crucial.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 814067)

- NtS **messages** and sections
  **Messages** et sections des NtS
  ([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 4753057)

- Clearing House key **messages**
  II. **Messages** de base
  ([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 15419440)

## More sentences

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

- A new sentence is like a **message** in a bottle: some time it will be translated.
  Une nouvelle phrase, c'est comme une bouteille à la mer : elle sera traduite un jour.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#1895158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1895158) [\#1895226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1895226))

- He sent me a **message** to inform me that, sooner or later, his chicken farm would go broke.
  Il m'adressa un courrier pour m'informer que son élevage de poulets ferait faillite tôt ou tard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tinowls and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#6026268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6026268) [\#766406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/766406))

- She was dumped by her boyfriend via a text **message**.
  Son copain l'a larguée par SMS.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2735102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2735102) [\#12038783](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12038783))

## 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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