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# whose — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: whose (105 998). By style: everyday 370 · literary 106 · biblical 240 · parliamentary 7 338 · legal and administrative 12 408 · UN documents 85 536.

## dont

Used about 74 580 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 77 · literary ≈ 73 · biblical ≈ 55 · parliamentary ≈ 4 739 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 048 · UN documents ≈ 60 588).

- Throw away the chairs **whose** legs are broken.
  Jetez les chaises **dont** les pieds sont cassés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#19896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19896) [\#11133405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11133405))

- "And **whose** courage was equal to his genius!"
  —Et **dont** l'audace égalait le génie?
  ([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 901)

- **whose** mouths speak deceit, **whose** right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  **Dont** la bouche profère la fausseté, Et dont la droite est une droite mensongère.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 144:8)

- Let us save those **whose** lives are threatened.
  Sauvons ceux **dont** les vies sont menacées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1230057)

- List of parties **whose** exemption is revoked
  Liste des parties **dont** l'exemption est révoquée
  ([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 3633344)

## More sentences

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

- **Whose** bike is this?
  C’est à qui, ce vélo ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Mouseneb and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#386698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/386698) [\#4575262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4575262))

- **Whose** pile of junk is this?
  À qui est ce tas de ferraille ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3325756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3325756) [\#13258224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13258224))

- **Whose** turn is it?
  À qui le tour ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zmoo · checked, community translation · [\#435279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/435279) [\#6031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6031))

## 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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