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# separate — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: separate (65 949), separates (756). By style: everyday 54 · literary 7 · biblical 33 · parliamentary 3 048 · legal and administrative 12 474 · UN documents 51 089.

## sépare

Used about 15 424 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 826 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 859 · UN documents ≈ 11 708). Forms: sépare, séparer.

- No one can **separate** them.
  Personne ne peut les **séparer**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and bluepie88 · checked, community translation · [\#40339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/40339) [\#666082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/666082))

- He continued to struggle against the violent and narrow current, which **separates** the prow of the City and the stem of the island of Notre-Dame, which we call to-day the Isle St. Louis.
  Il continuait de lutter contre le courant violent et serré qui **sépare** la poupe de la Cité de la proue de l'île Notre-Dame, que nous nommons aujourd'hui l'île Saint-Louis.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8149)

- So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and **separate** the wicked from among the righteous,
  Il en sera de même à la fin du monde. Les anges viendront **séparer** les méchants d’avec les justes,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 13:49)

- One difference alone **separates** us, just one.
  Une seule différence nous **sépare**, une seule.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1935263)

- **Separates** the subfields of a record field
  **Sépare** les sous-zones d'une zone
  ([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 1389259)

## More sentences

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

- We have to **separate** falsehood from truth.
  Nous devons démêler le faux du vrai.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13540327](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13540327) [\#13539464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13539464))

- "Are you paying together or **separate**?" "Together, please."
  « Payez-vous ensemble ou séparément ? » « Ensemble, s'il vous plaît ! »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#12268505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12268505) [\#12267632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12267632))

- They went their **separate** ways.
  Ils sont partis chacun de leur côté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#305879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305879) [\#127766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/127766))

## 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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