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# agent — French to English

How French *agent* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: agent (57 048), agente (324), agentes (1 127), agents (126 890). By style: everyday 82 · literary 24 · parliamentary 1 649 · legal and administrative 20 329 · UN documents 163 305.

## agent

Used about 95 038 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 704 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 545 · UN documents ≈ 86 756). Forms: agent, agente, agentes, agents. Meaning: [agent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/agent/).

- Je suis un **agent**.
  I'm an **agent**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2247919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247919) [\#5661967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5661967))

- --Je suis **agent** de l'autorité.
  “I am an **agent** of the authorities.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24132)

- Une goutte de cet **agent** suffit pour tuer.
  One drop of the **agent** is enough to kill.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1808050)

- Résistance aux **agents** chimiques
  Resistance to chemical **agents**
  ([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 5525870)

- **Agents**, vendeurs et personnel des services
  **Agents**, sales &amp; service workers
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18666649)

## los

Used about 851 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 851).

- During the meeting, two FBI **agents** who had reportedly specifically come from Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi extensively questioned Mr. Hamdan.
  During the meeting, two FBI agents who had reportedly specifically come from **Los** Angeles to Abu Dhabi extensively questioned Mr. Hamdan.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 22075706)

## de

Used about 436 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17 · legal and administrative ≈ 419). Meaning: [de in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/de/).

- (DE) Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, je viens de la région d'Europe où l'épidémie de l'**agent** pathogène ECEH frappe le plus.
  (**DE**) Mr President, Commissioner, I come from the region of Europe where the outbreak of the EHEC pathogen is at its raging worst.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1566464)

- **agents** chimiques liquides d’antigivrage ou de dégivrage ou autres contaminants;
  anti-icing or **de**-icing liquid chemicals or other contaminants;
  ([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 5324163)

- Les APEO et autres dérivés d'alkylphénol ne doivent pas être ajoutés aux produits chimiques de nettoyage et de désencrage, aux **agents** antimousse, ni aux dispersants.
  APEOs or other alkylphenol derivatives shall not be added to cleaning chemicals, **de**-inking chemicals, foam inhibitors or dispersants.
  ([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 4789253)

## More sentences

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

- L'**agent** a proposé à l'aveugle de l'aider à traverser.
  The officer offered to help the blind person get across.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and kaiperkins271 · checked, community translation · [\#6949753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6949753) [\#1081797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1081797))

- L'enquête conclut que l'**agent** de police n'avait rien fait de répréhensible.
  The investigation concluded that the police officer had done nothing wrong.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1737325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737325) [\#1737742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737742))

- Êtes-vous un **agent** de police ?
  Are you a policeman?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1886360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886360) [\#2025043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2025043))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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