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# signature — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: signature (33 651), signatures (9 862). By style: everyday 21 · literary 5 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 199 · legal and administrative 5 216 · UN documents 37 071.

## signature

Used about 41 289 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 999 · UN documents ≈ 35 140). Forms: signature, signatures.

- Is this your **signature**?
  Est-ce votre **signature** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#9341385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9341385) [\#6459894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6459894))

- This **signature** was not false.
  Cette **signature** n'était pas fausse.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31429)

- We need their **signatures**.
  Il nous faut ces **signatures**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1920680)

- **Signature** of person concerned (2)
  **Signature** de la personne concernée (2)
  ([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 1890388)

- Stamp and/or **signature**:
  Cachet et/ou **signature** :
  ([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 12847134)

## More sentences

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

- oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my **signature**! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
  Oh! Qui me fera trouver quelqu’un qui m’écoute? Voilà ma défense toute signée: Que le Tout-Puissant me réponde! Qui me donnera la plainte écrite par mon adversaire?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 31:35)

- At European level, only the European Parliament through its President and the ELDR Group have signed the Charter, despite the fact that it has been open for **signature** since February 1998.
  Au niveau de l'UE, seul le Parlement a signé cette charte, par le biais de son Président et du groupe ELDR. Le document est prêt depuis février 1998.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1933228)

- Five minutes before this plenary sitting began, and for reasons which I do not wish to comment on, the Liberal Group withdrew its **signature** from that document.
  Pour des raisons qu'il ne m'appartient pas de commenter, le groupe libéral a refusé de signer ce texte cinq minutes avant le début de cette séance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1804780)

## 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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