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# payment — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: payment (81 591), payments (57 002). By style: everyday 39 · literary 2 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 6 951 · legal and administrative 44 922 · UN documents 86 674.

## paiement

Used about 76 586 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 286 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 967 · UN documents ≈ 34 308). Forms: paiement, paiements.

- Smith demanded **payment**.
  Smith exigeait le **paiement**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mccarras and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#51564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51564) [\#8724075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8724075))

- Hence, one fine morning, feeling himself better, he had left his golden spurs with the leech as **payment**, and had slipped away.
  Aussi, un beau matin, se sentant mieux, il avait laissé ses éperons d'or en **paiement** au pharmacopole, et s'était esquivé.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5525)

- This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require **payment** from his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.
  Et voici comment s’observera le relâche. Quand on aura publié le relâche en l’honneur de l’Éternel, tout créancier qui aura fait un prêt à son prochain se relâchera de son droit, il ne pressera pas son prochain et son frère pour le **paiement** de sa dette.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 15:2)

- There is a great deal of talk about net **payments**.
  L’on discute beaucoup des **paiements** nets.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 686282)

- B **Payment** by credit card
  B **Paiement** par carte de crédit
  ([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 3950680)

## More sentences

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

- Can I use a credit card for **payment**?
  Puis-je utiliser une carte de crédit pour payer ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by luthorl and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#403876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/403876) [\#403877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/403877))

- Can you save enough money for the down **payment**?
  Pouvez-vous mettre assez d'argent de côté pour la mise de fond ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#64558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/64558) [\#2056452](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2056452))

- Can you save enough money for the down **payment**?
  Peux-tu épargner assez d'argent pour la mise de base ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#64558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/64558) [\#2056447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2056447))

## 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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