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# saint — English to French

How English *saint* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: saint (27 136), saints (283). By style: everyday 78 · literary 155 · biblical 81 · parliamentary 209 · legal and administrative 1 597 · UN documents 25 299.

## saint

Used about 22 338 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 74 · literary ≈ 149 · biblical ≈ 65 · parliamentary ≈ 193 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 564 · UN documents ≈ 20 292). Forms: saint, sainte, saints.

- He's no **saint**.
  Il n'est pas un **saint**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1932073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1932073) [\#1932567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1932567))

- It is called **Saint**-Loup.
  Ça s'appelle **Saint**-Loup.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29104)

- But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the **saints**.
  Présentement je vais à Jérusalem, pour le service des **saints**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 15:25)

- None of us are **saints**.
  Aucun de nous n’est un **saint**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 518752)

- **Saint** Kitts and Nevis
  **Saint**-Christophe-et-Nevis
  ([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 1564765)

## grenadines

Used about 264 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 264).

- **Saint** Vincent 9 December 1996 (1) CERD/C/85/Add.1 CERD/C/SR.652
  et-**Grenadines** 9 décembre 1996 1) CERD/C/85/Add.1 CERD/C/SR.652
  ([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 2744842)

## More sentences

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

- They tell themselves that they certainly won't be able to go again on All **Saint**'s Day.
  Ils se disent qu'ils ne vont certainement pas pouvoir repartir à la Toussaint.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#607342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/607342) [\#607340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/607340))

- The absent **saint** gets no candle.
  Qui va à la chasse perd sa place.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by enteka and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#1337911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1337911) [\#4223](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4223))

- This year, All **Saints**' Day falls on a Monday.
  Cette année la Toussaint tombe un lundi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#13885817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13885817) [\#1083702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1083702))

## 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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