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# woman — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: woman (30 547), womans (8). By style: everyday 874 · literary 177 · biblical 320 · parliamentary 1 296 · legal and administrative 70 · UN documents 27 818.

## femme

Used about 15 766 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 728 · literary ≈ 96 · biblical ≈ 287 · parliamentary ≈ 1 215 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 · UN documents ≈ 13 412).

- This is a **woman**.
  C'est une **femme**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by yavuz and PERCE\_NEIGE · checked, community translation · [\#3437355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3437355) [\#3127508](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3127508))

- “A **woman**, I suppose.”
  --Une **femme**, sans doute?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1390)

- Afterward the **woman** also died.
  Enfin, la **femme** mourut aussi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:32)

- And a **woman** was elected.
  Et c' est une **femme** qui a été élue.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 18680)

- a married **woman**, or
  d'une **femme** mariée, ou
  ([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 669189)

## More sentences

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

- "Murder!", screamed the poor **woman** in a loud shriek.
  "Au meurtre !" s'écria la malheureuse en poussant un cri perçant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1931407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1931407) [\#1931353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1931353))

- The French servant saved the Indian **woman**'s life.
  Le domestique français a sauvé la vie de l'indienne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13910535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13910535) [\#13910536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13910536))

- Why is that Portuguese **woman** singing in Spanish?
  Pourquoi cette Portugaise chante-t-elle en espagnol ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and samir\_t · checked, community translation · [\#13864438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13864438) [\#11301979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11301979))

## 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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