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# persons — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: persons (500 389). By style: everyday 19 · literary 14 · biblical 28 · parliamentary 4 065 · legal and administrative 35 193 · UN documents 461 070.

## personnes

Used about 377 819 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 3 388 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 594 · UN documents ≈ 345 803).

- Who are the suspicious **persons**?
  Qui sont les **personnes** suspectes ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13936694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13936694) [\#13936697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13936697))

- “Will you carry me and three other **persons** to Liverpool?”
  --Voulez-vous me transporter à Liverpool, moi et trois **personnes**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2837)

- 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)

- 10 or more **persons** employed
  10 **personnes** occupées ou plus
  ([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 2724551)

## More sentences

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

- There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few **persons** have seen it.
  Il en est du véritable amour comme de l’apparition des esprits : tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by csabus and csabus · checked, community translation · [\#3788430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3788430) [\#3788412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3788412))

- All **persons** shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
  Tous les individus devront disposer d'une totale et pleine liberté d'opinion religieuse ; personne ne sera non plus forcé à fréquenter ou à supporter quelle qu'institution religieuse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#908439](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/908439) [\#1784800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1784800))

- It is better that ten guilty **persons** escape, than that one innocent suffer.
  Il est mieux que dix coupables s'échappent, qu'un seul innocent souffre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#714833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/714833) [\#889695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/889695))

## 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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