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# said — English to French

How English *said* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: said (286 899). By style: everyday 3 029 · literary 1 430 · biblical 3 386 · parliamentary 37 039 · legal and administrative 4 464 · UN documents 237 551.

## dit

Used about 121 773 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 587 · literary ≈ 1 043 · biblical ≈ 2 187 · parliamentary ≈ 16 976 · UN documents ≈ 98 980).

- Tell me what Tom **said**.
  Dites-moi ce que Tom a **dit**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1845479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1845479) [\#5369503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5369503))

- “He is,” **said** Enjolras.
  --Il l'est, **dit** Enjolras.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26034)

- He **said**, “A certain man had two sons.
  Il **dit** encore: Un homme avait deux fils.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 15:11)

- You have **said** that this Constitution represents radical progress.
  Vous avez **dit** que la Constitution représentait un progrès radical.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 469398)

- 44. Mr. Hasan (Syrian Arab Republic) **said** that the problem of early marriage was not widespread.
  M. Hasan (République arabe syrienne) **dit** que le mariage précoce n &apos; est pas répandu.
  ([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 16984745)

## que

Used about 56 485 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 126 · literary ≈ 89 · biblical ≈ 141 · parliamentary ≈ 6 173 · legal and administrative ≈ 465 · UN documents ≈ 49 490).

- She took no notice of what her father **said**.
  Elle n'a prêté aucune attention à ce **que** disait son père.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Goofy · checked, community translation · [\#316814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/316814) [\#487824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/487824))

- “Except the sermon,” **said** Gavroche.
  --**Que** le sermon, fit Gavroche.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20670)

- He **said** to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”
  Il leur répondit: Allons ailleurs, dans les bourgades voisines, afin **que** j’y prêche aussi; car c’est pour cela que je suis sorti.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 1:38)

- I have heard it **said** that the agency will cost EUR 150 million.
  J'ai entendu dire **que** cette agence coûterait 150 millions d'euros.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 864286)

- Consequently, the undertakings were **said** to be no longer adequate to eliminate the injurious effects of dumping.
  En conséquence, ils estiment **que** les engagements ne permettent plus d'éliminer les effets préjudiciables du dumping.
  ([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 953998)

## m

Used about 30 536 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 71 · parliamentary ≈ 772 · UN documents ≈ 29 694).

- Jesus cried out and **said**, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
  Or, Jésus s’était écrié: Celui qui croit en moi croit, non pas en moi, mais en celui qui **m**’a envoyé;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 12:44)

- As the President **said**, joining Europe was a dream for the people of Spain during the long years of the dictatorship.
  Comme l'a rappelé **M**. Zapatero, le peuple espagnol a longtemps rêvé de rejoindre l'Europe, durant ces longues années de dictature.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1327915)

- Mr. **Said** Shihab Ahmad
  **M**. Said Shihab Ahmad
  ([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 12677016)

- Mr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, in particular, was **said** to be suffering from malaria and malnutrition.
  **M**. Beko Ransome-Kuti, en particulier, serait atteint de paludisme et de malnutrition.
  ([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 2614470)

- 53. Mr. DIACONU **said** he, too, thought that the Committee needed more time for the consideration of some reports than for others.
  53. **M**. DIACONU pense, lui aussi, que le Comité a besoin de plus de temps pour examiner certains rapports que d &apos; autres.
  ([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 2761946)

## vous

Used about 9 082 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · biblical ≈ 212 · parliamentary ≈ 3 858 · UN documents ≈ 4 949).

- "May I please see your driver's license for identification?" **said** the clerk.
  L'employé de bureau demanda : « Puis-je voir votre permis de conduire comme justificatif d'identité, s'il **vous** plaît ? »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Petro1 · checked, community translation · [\#73626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/73626) [\#9950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9950))

- He **said** to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
  Et **vous**, leur demanda-t-il, qui dites-vous que je suis? Pierre répondit: Le Christ de Dieu.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 9:20)

- I read an interview with a Uighur woman, for example, who **said**: Would you like to be governed by yellow communists?
  J'ai par exemple lu un entretien avec une femme ouïghoure qui déclarait: aimeriez-**vous** être gouverné par des communistes jaunes?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1274363)

- I request you to have this letter circulated as a document of the Security Council. (Signed) Mohammed **Said** AL-SAHAF
  Je **vous** serais obligé de bien vouloir faire distribuer le texte de la présente lettre comme document du Conseil de sécurité.
  ([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 427572)

- Jesus **said** to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They **said**, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
  Jésus leur demanda: Combien avez-**vous** de pains? Sept, répondirent-ils, et quelques petits poissons.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 15:34)

## More sentences

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

- He **said** he was coming back.
  Il a affirmé revenir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7402973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7402973) [\#9552654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9552654))

- She shook her head and **said** nothing.
  Elle secoua la tête et ne répondit rien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#3381884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3381884) [\#3212497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3212497))

- What he **said** was far from true.
  Ce qu'il disait était très éloigné de la vérité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#286088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286088) [\#960281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/960281))

## 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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