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# person — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: person (200 365), persons (500 389). By style: everyday 1 099 · literary 88 · biblical 108 · parliamentary 8 172 · legal and administrative 63 665 · UN documents 627 622.

## personne

Used about 510 043 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 869 · literary ≈ 27 · biblical ≈ 34 · parliamentary ≈ 5 618 · legal and administrative ≈ 52 391 · UN documents ≈ 451 103). Forms: personne, personnes.

- Go and see him in **person**.
  Allez le voir en **personne**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#241116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241116) [\#8590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8590))

- Or rather, his whole **person** was a grimace.
  Ou plutôt toute sa **personne** était une grimace.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 698)

- and sixteen thousand **persons**),
  et seize mille **personnes**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 31:46)

- Movement of **persons** with a long-stay visa (
  Circulation des **personnes** titulaires d'un visa de long séjour (
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1353306)

- a legal **person**; or
  une **personne** morale, ou
  ([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 510995)

## More sentences

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

- The first **person** to repeat that to my wife, I will strangle. Understood?
  Le premier qui répète cela à ma femme, je l'étrangle, compris ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by caspian and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1435898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1435898) [\#566566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/566566))

- He had a gun on his **person**.
  Il avait une arme sur lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#257233](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/257233) [\#8435536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8435536))

- I'm not a gullible **person**.
  Je ne suis pas quelqu'un de crédule.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6128572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6128572) [\#10485811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10485811))

## 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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