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# written — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: written (72 598). By style: everyday 449 · literary 31 · biblical 251 · parliamentary 4 366 · legal and administrative 8 759 · UN documents 58 742.

## écrit

Used about 44 209 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 402 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 220 · parliamentary ≈ 2 911 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 387 · UN documents ≈ 34 266). Forms: écrit, écrite, écrites.

- It's all been **written**.
  Tout a été **écrit**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2891544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2891544) [\#4871811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4871811))

- Service was **written** servisse.
  Service était **écrit** servisse.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8945)

- because it is **written**, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
  selon qu’il est **écrit**: Vous serez saints, car je suis saint.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 1:16)

- **Written** explanations of vote
  Explications **écrites** de vote
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1100992)

- Submit their **written** comments to the Commission; and
  présenter leurs observations **écrites** à la Commission; et
  ([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 3631073)

## More sentences

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

- Many novels have been **written** by him.
  De nombreux romans ont été écrits par lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and fengrim · checked, community translation · [\#274872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274872) [\#180729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180729))

- How many poems have you **written**?
  Combien de poèmes as-tu écrits ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#12163345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12163345) [\#12163344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12163344))

- Early computer programs were **written** on punch cards.
  Les premiers programmes informatiques étaient inscrits sur des cartes perforées.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7269724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7269724) [\#12630753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12630753))

## 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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