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# speak — English to French

How English *speak* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: speak (31 922), speaks (2 917). By style: everyday 3 366 · literary 92 · biblical 467 · parliamentary 9 810 · legal and administrative 322 · UN documents 20 782.

## parle

Used about 14 130 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 595 · literary ≈ 54 · biblical ≈ 221 · parliamentary ≈ 3 372 · legal and administrative ≈ 95 · UN documents ≈ 7 793). Forms: parle, parler.

- I'll **speak** to Tom.
  Je vais **parler** avec Tom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#2262017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2262017) [\#7810827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7810827))

- I will **speak** with them.
  Je vais leur **parler**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8548)

- Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who **speaks** to you.”
  Jésus lui dit: Je le suis, moi qui te **parle**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 4:26)

- The report **speaks** of efficiency.
  Le rapport **parle** d'efficience.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1915695)

- **Speaks** fluent English, Urdu and Arabic.
  **Parle** couramment l'anglais, l'ourdou et l'arabe.
  ([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 4279796)

## parole

Used about 2 464 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 409 · legal and administrative ≈ 84 · UN documents ≈ 1 948).

- The Professor was the first to **speak**, and said:
  Le professeur avait le premier pris la **parole**, et dit:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3972)

- Hear the word which the LORD **speaks** to you, house of Israel!
  Écoutez la **parole** que l’Éternel vous adresse, Maison d’Israël!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 10:1)

- Mr McMahon wishes to **speak** on a point of order.
  La **parole** est à M. McMahon pour une motion de procédure.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1827206)

- to invite the Parties to **speak**;
  donner la **parole** aux parties;
  ([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 2542958)

- Also, NGOs were given only three minutes to **speak**.
  De surcroît, elles ont eu seulement trois minutes pour prendre la **parole**.
  ([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 24581960)

## anglais

Used about 768 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 245 · parliamentary ≈ 307 · UN documents ≈ 216).

- He **speaks** English well.
  Il est doué en **anglais**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#294011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294011) [\#131633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131633))

- (The speaker **speaks** in English)
  (L'orateur s'exprime en **anglais**)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1558606)

- **Speaks** English, German, Serbian, Croatian, Russian and Italian
  **Anglais**, allemand, serbe, croate, russe et italien
  ([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 14586070)

- You **speak** English very well.
  Tu parles très bien **anglais**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6067799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6067799) [\#8823444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8823444))

- If that is the case, I immediately propose that from that moment onwards, we only **speak** English in Parliament as well.
  Si c' est le cas, je propose immédiatement que nous ne parlions dès lors plus que l' **anglais** également au sein de ce Parlement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152292)

## français

Used about 564 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 245 · parliamentary ≈ 102 · UN documents ≈ 216).

- Do you two **speak** French?
  Vous parlez **français** tous les deux ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11547837](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11547837) [\#11547839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11547839))

- Madam President, I will **speak** to you in French, to make it easy for you, as you spoke on this question.
  Madame, je vous parlerai en **français**, pour que cela soit plus facile pour vous puisque vous êtes intervenue à cet égard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1785730)

- **Speaks** (besides Slovenian): Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Serbian.
  Slovène, croate, anglais, **français**, allemand, italien, polonais, serbe (parlés).
  ([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 6635130)

- We both can **speak** French.
  Nous parlons tous les deux **français**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#6863329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6863329) [\#8737443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8737443))

- I want to learn how to **speak** French.
  Je veux apprendre à parler le **français**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2396148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396148) [\#2398070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2398070))

## More sentences

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

- Do you **speak** Nahuatl?
  Parlez-vous le nahuatl ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#5871050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5871050) [\#8735056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8735056))

- Do you **speak** Arabic?
  Vous parlez l'arabe ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and manu · checked, community translation · [\#434624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/434624) [\#585824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/585824))

- You **speak** fluent German.
  Vous parlez couramment allemand.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#12847929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12847929) [\#2286229](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2286229))

## 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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