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# pointed — English to French

How English *pointed* 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: pointed (44 499). By style: everyday 38 · literary 31 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 4 770 · legal and administrative 2 084 · UN documents 37 575.

## souligné

Used about 10 681 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 590 · legal and administrative ≈ 478 · UN documents ≈ 8 611).

- Tom **pointed** out my mistake.
  Tom a **souligné** mon erreur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3415197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3415197) [\#5688405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5688405))

- Mr Lehne has already **pointed** this out.
  M. Lehne l'a déjà **souligné**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1489056)

- That fact was also **pointed** out in recitals 60 and 71 of the NBG Opening Decision.
  Ce fait a déjà été **souligné** aux considérants 60 et 71 de la décision d'ouvrir la procédure.
  ([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 3502734)

- As the Director-General has already **pointed** out, we have six States parties.
  Comme le Directeur général l &apos; a **souligné**, nous comptons six États parties.
  ([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 16592981)

- Tom **pointed** out Mary's mistakes.
  Tom a **souligné** les erreurs de Mary.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and thowas · checked, community translation · [\#1028202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1028202) [\#4653219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4653219))

## More sentences

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

- She **pointed** her finger at him.
  Elle pointa le doigt sur lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887334) [\#1175580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1175580))

- Everything **pointed** to this answer.
  Tout pointait vers cette réponse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2690465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2690465) [\#8483230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8483230))

- Tom **pointed** at the security camera.
  Tom montra la caméra de sécurité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3066846](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3066846) [\#5803787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5803787))

## 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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