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# reflects — English to French

How English *reflects* 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: reflects (27 724). By style: everyday 10 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 755 · legal and administrative 1 556 · UN documents 24 400.

## reflète

Used about 7 696 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 060 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 037 · UN documents ≈ 5 592).

- His face **reflects** joy.
  Son visage **reflète** la joie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#3455418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3455418) [\#3469040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3469040))

- Parliament's proposal **reflects** this ambition.
  La proposition du Parlement **reflète** cette ambition.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1420742)

- This **reflects** a clearly expansionary fiscal policy.
  Cette situation **reflète** une politique budgétaire nettement expansionniste.
  ([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 4220751)

- The practice also **reflects** a new spirit of cooperation which deserves appreciation.
  Cette pratique en soi **reflète** aussi un nouvel esprit de coopération digne de considération.
  ([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 772685)

- A mirror **reflects** light.
  Un miroir **reflète** la lumière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Petro1 · checked, community translation · [\#18924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18924) [\#9176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9176))

## More sentences

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

- His face **reflects** joy.
  Son visage exprime la joie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#3455418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3455418) [\#598089](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/598089))

- The mirror **reflects** the light.
  Le miroir réfléchit la lumière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sleekkat and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7189064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7189064) [\#12365181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12365181))

- Water **reflects** light.
  L'eau réfléchit la lumière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#270802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270802) [\#180679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180679))

## 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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