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# show — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: show (49 335), shows (41 574). By style: everyday 1 066 · literary 20 · biblical 201 · parliamentary 13 410 · legal and administrative 11 744 · UN documents 64 468.

## montrer

Used about 23 684 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 577 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 6 286 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 691 · UN documents ≈ 14 102). Forms: montre, montrent, montrer.

- **Show** me the money.
  **Montre**-moi l'argent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#2207319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2207319) [\#8703397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8703397))

- Even to see and to **show** does not suffice.
  Voir et **montrer**, cela même ne suffit pas.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11086)

- But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I **show** a most excellent way to you.
  Aspirez aux dons les meilleurs. Et je vais encore vous **montrer** une voie par excellence.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 12:31)

- We must **show** that we are in solidarity with the Cuban people.
  Nous devons **montrer** que nous sommes solidaires avec le peuple cubain.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1359798)

- Figure 3 **shows** the other extreme migration process.
  La figure 3 **montre** l'autre processus de migration extrême.
  ([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 831841)

## More sentences

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

- If you teach me how to dance, I will **show** you my hidden scars.
  Si tu m’apprends à danser, je te montrerai mes cicatrices cachées.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kebukebu and zmoo · checked, community translation · [\#2185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2185) [\#4012](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4012))

- **Show** him how to do this.
  Montrez-lui comment le faire !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1836076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1836076) [\#1836695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1836695))

- The **show** is on Monday.
  Le spectacle est lundi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5509127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5509127) [\#7785795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7785795))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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