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# which — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: which (2 361 323). By style: everyday 1 422 · literary 1 664 · biblical 2 739 · parliamentary 277 014 · legal and administrative 311 779 · UN documents 1 766 705.

## dont

Used about 258 644 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 139 · biblical ≈ 114 · parliamentary ≈ 11 542 · legal and administrative ≈ 25 982 · UN documents ≈ 220 838).

- Our life is like a notebook of **which** pages are covered with all the moments, both the goods and bads, the ups and downs.
  Notre vie est comme un carnet de notes **dont** les pages sont pleines de tous les événements, les bons comme les mauvais, les hauts et les bas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aloannguyen and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#519557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/519557) [\#1182284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1182284))

- It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an epoch in **which** a pot contains power.
  Il est tout simple qu'un poêle soit le symbole d'une époque **dont** une marmite contient la puissance.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20756)

- But these are they of **which** you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
  Mais voici ceux **dont** vous ne mangerez pas: l’aigle, l’orfraie et l’aigle de mer;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 14:12)

- This means that every donor country is obliged to submit information **which** the Commission will use to gain feedback.
  Cela signifie que chaque pays donateur est contraint de soumettre des informations **dont** la Commission se servira comme moyen de contrôle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 366572)

- of **which**: OTC Derivatives
  **dont**: Instruments dérivés de gré à gré
  ([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 3590977)

## More sentences

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

- **Which** bus do I take to get downtown?
  Quel bus dois-je prendre pour aller en ville ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8991940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8991940) [\#12634270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12634270))

- **Which** is the tallest mountain in Europe?
  Quelle est la montagne la plus haute d'Europe ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabretou and michelnialon · checked, community translation · [\#7258138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7258138) [\#3385511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3385511))

- **Which** is your pen?
  Lequel est votre stylo ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#70860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/70860) [\#4548551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4548551))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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