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# sign — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sign (33 951), signs (19 488). By style: everyday 331 · literary 56 · biblical 147 · parliamentary 4 813 · legal and administrative 5 573 · UN documents 42 519.

## signe

Used about 22 210 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 214 · literary ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 83 · parliamentary ≈ 3 058 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 309 · UN documents ≈ 15 502). Forms: signe, signer, signes.

- It's a **sign**.
  C'est un **signe**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2249009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2249009) [\#6219187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6219187))

- The shadowy eye is the other **sign**.
  La prunelle ombre est l'autre **signe**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15602)

- Others, testing him, sought from him a **sign** from heaven.
  Et d’autres, pour l’éprouver, lui demandèrent un **signe** venant du ciel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 11:16)

- This is a very serious **sign**.
  C'est un **signe** très grave.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1136084)

- Biohazard **sign** on the door
  **Signe** de danger biologique sur la porte
  ([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 811818)

## More sentences

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

- **Sign** on this line.
  Signez sur cette ligne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1860607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860607) [\#7063914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7063914))

- Did you **sign** the contract?
  Avez-vous signé le contrat ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#3334032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3334032) [\#5073752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5073752))

- I'll **sign** the petition.
  Je signerai la pétition.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5186971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5186971) [\#6443921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6443921))

## 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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