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# sound — English to French

How English *sound* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sound (54 788), sounds (1 079). By style: everyday 730 · literary 57 · biblical 105 · parliamentary 4 233 · legal and administrative 8 357 · UN documents 42 385.

## sons

Used about 9 489 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 44 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 786 · UN documents ≈ 6 623).

- All **sound** is vibration.
  Tous les **sons** sont des vibrations.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#10823231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10823231) [\#12495228](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12495228))

- The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few inarticulate **sounds**.
  La soeur voulut parler, mais elle put à peine balbutier quelques **sons** inarticulés.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6630)

- Then you shall **sound** the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall **sound** the trumpet throughout all your land.
  Le dixième jour du septième mois, tu feras retentir les **sons** éclatants de la trompette; le jour des expiations, vous sonnerez de la trompette dans tout votre pays.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 25:9)

- It socialises the child, develops his or her mother tongue and accustoms him or her to the **sounds** of a foreign language.
  Il socialise l'enfant, développe sa langue maternelle et l'habitue aux **sons** d'une langue étrangère.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1561896)

- No of driver selectable **sounds** (1/2/3/愦灭※)
  Nombre de **sons** pouvant être choisis par le conducteur (1/2/3/愦灭※)
  ([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 5564499)

## semble

Used about 2 852 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 160 · parliamentary ≈ 485 · UN documents ≈ 2 208).

- It **sounds** a bit goofy.
  Ça **semble** un peu niais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3642275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3642275) [\#3642277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3642277))

- It **sounds** very easy and neat.
  Cela **semble** en effet très facile et astucieux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1558814)

- On the surface, this **sounds** fair and appropriate.
  En apparence, cela **semble** juste et approprié.
  ([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 6567852)

- His story **sounds** strange.
  Son récit **semble** étrange.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#287879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/287879) [\#1015167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1015167))

- To me it **sounds** as though the urgency and the ambition that were initially there have evaporated.
  Il me **semble** que l’urgence et l’ambition du début se sont évaporées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 669859)

## bruit

Used about 1 899 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 99 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 1 766).

- I hate that **sound**.
  Je déteste ce **bruit**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3732634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3732634) [\#8013836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8013836))

- Jean Valjean having paused, the **sound** ceased.
  Jean Valjean s'étant arrêté, le **bruit** avait cessé.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27706)

- Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the **sound** of abundance of rain.”
  Et Élie dit à Achab: Monte, mange et bois; car il se fait un **bruit** qui annonce la pluie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 18:41)

- \[ADDITIONAL **SOUND** EMISSION PROVISIONS
  \[PRESCRIPTIONS SUPPLÉMENTAIRES CONCERNANT LE **BRUIT** ÉMIS
  ([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 11264288)

- Don't make a **sound**.
  Ne fais pas un **bruit** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1844225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1844225) [\#1846246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1846246))

## More sentences

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

- You don't **sound** convinced.
  Vous ne semblez pas convaincu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2274014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2274014) [\#4583738](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4583738))

- Light travels faster than **sound**.
  La lumière se déplace plus vite que le son.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#240394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240394) [\#8672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8672))

- You **sound** like my father.
  On dirait mon père.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6831331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6831331) [\#12954160](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12954160))

## 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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