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# software — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: software (23 572), softwares (26). By style: everyday 80 · parliamentary 725 · legal and administrative 4 528 · UN documents 18 265.

## logiciel

Used about 20 239 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 72 · parliamentary ≈ 619 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 245 · UN documents ≈ 15 303). Forms: logiciel, logiciels.

- This **software** is free.
  Ce **logiciel** est gratuit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#12716265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12716265) [\#8685058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8685058))

- Of course, copyright already protects **software** codes.
  Bien entendu, des droits d'auteur protègent déjà les codes de **logiciels**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 494698)

- Bar coding **software** package
  **Logiciels** de codes-barres
  ([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 1495345)

- E-mail **software** a/
  **Logiciel** de messagerie électroniquea
  ([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 2887028)

- This **software** is free.
  Ce **logiciel**-ci est gratuit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12716265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12716265) [\#12748849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12748849))

## More sentences

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

- Sixty-four-bit **software** will not run on 32-bit architecture.
  Un programme 64 bits ne fonctionnera pas sur une architecture 32 bits.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1006359](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1006359) [\#1006358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1006358))

- I'm having some problems compiling this **software**.
  J'ai quelques difficultés à compiler ce programme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#367129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/367129) [\#367196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/367196))

- Wine is the **software** of a meal. Meats and vegetables are but its hardware.
  Le vin est la partie intellectuelle d'un repas. Les viandes et les légumes n'en sont que la partie matérielle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1075048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1075048) [\#1075040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1075040))

## 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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