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# turn — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: turn (37 681), turns (2 873). By style: everyday 1 079 · literary 80 · biblical 299 · parliamentary 7 154 · legal and administrative 2 704 · UN documents 29 238.

## tour

Used about 7 699 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 112 · literary ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 224 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 239 · UN documents ≈ 6 091). Forms: tour, tours.

- Let's take **turns** rowing.
  Ramons à **tour** de rôle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5178459](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5178459) [\#7862078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7862078))

- Fauchelevent’s **turn** had come.
  Le **tour** de Fauchelevent était venu.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12234)

- If any man speaks in another language, let there be two, or at the most three, and in **turn**; and let one interpret.
  En est-il qui parlent en langue, que deux ou trois au plus parlent, chacun à son **tour**, et que quelqu’un interprète;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:27)

- We could not justify making these countries wait until 2019 for their **turn**.
  Faire attendre ces pays jusqu’en 2019 pour avoir leur **tour** ne serait pas justifiable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 646846)

- twist less than five **turns** per metre;
  torsion du câble inférieure à 5 **tours** par mètre;
  ([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 3694381)

## More sentences

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

- In case of an earthquake, **turn** off the gas.
  En cas de tremblement de terre, ferme le gaz.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#277202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277202) [\#6592340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6592340))

- If it's a request from you, I'm hardly likely to be able to **turn** you down flat.
  S'il s'agit d'une requête de votre part, il est hautement improbable que je sois en mesure de vous éconduire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#327804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/327804) [\#1933535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1933535))

- Please **turn** off the lights when you leave the room.
  Veuillez éteindre les lumières lorsque vous quittez la pièce.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2800313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2800313) [\#7267215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7267215))

## 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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