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# documents — French to English

How French *documents* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: documents (282 407). By style: everyday 70 · literary 2 · parliamentary 5 438 · legal and administrative 26 049 · UN documents 250 848.

## documents

Used about 216 951 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 872 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 878 · UN documents ≈ 188 136). Forms: document, documentation, documents.

- Tom signa les **documents**.
  Tom signed the **documents**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2644810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2644810) [\#5390632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5390632))

- En lisant l'histoire, en l'étudiant surtout dans les **documents** et les matériaux, le voile qui couvrait Napoléon aux yeux de Marius se déchira peu à peu.
  On reading history, on studying him, especially in the **documents** and materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes of Marius was gradually rent.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13609)

- Dépôt de **documents**: cf. procès-verbal
  **Documents** received: see Minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 894370)

- Transmission de **documents** aux membres du groupe
  Forwarding of **documents** to group members
  ([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 1140662)

- **Documents** GRB-57-12 et GRB-57-18.
  Informal **documents** GRB-57-12 and GRB-57-18
  ([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 28133247)

## available

Used about 10 452 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 10 452). Meaning: [available in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/available/).

- Une fois inscrites, les délégations recevront les **documents** par courrier électronique dès qu &apos; ils seront disponibles.
  e-mail as soon as they are made **available**.
  ([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 26652938)

## More sentences

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

- Est-ce votre porte-**documents** ?
  Is this your briefcase?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2167281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2167281) [\#5389613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5389613))

- S'il te plaît, mets de l'ordre dans ces **documents**.
  Please put these papers in order.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8982036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8982036) [\#1968144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1968144))

- Le romancier a rassemblé des **documents** pour son travail.
  The novelist gathered materials for his work.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JnRouvignac and CK · checked, community translation · [\#46506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/46506) [\#431017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/431017))

## 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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