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# elle — French to English

How French *elle* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: elle (958 941), elles (438 622). By style: everyday 23 704 · literary 1 279 · biblical 1 934 · parliamentary 125 105 · legal and administrative 139 642 · UN documents 1 105 899.

## it

Used about 335 343 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 247 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 302 · parliamentary ≈ 39 095 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 184 · UN documents ≈ 253 435). Meaning: [it in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/it/).

- La faculté vaut-**elle** le coup ?
  Is college worth **it**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1636090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1636090) [\#1638856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1638856))

- --**Elle** ne s'ouvrira pas, dit l'huissier.
  “**It** will not be opened at all,” replied the usher.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5856)

- Et maintenant **elle** est plantée dans le désert, Dans une terre sèche et aride.
  Now **it** is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 19:13)

- **Elle** a relevé ce défi.
  **It** coped with this challenge.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1320930)

- **Elle** peut être modifiée dans l'intervalle.
  **It** may be altered in the intervening period.
  ([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 998220)

## they

Used about 276 273 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 111 · literary ≈ 493 · biblical ≈ 645 · parliamentary ≈ 39 095 · legal and administrative ≈ 29 092 · UN documents ≈ 195 836). Meaning: [they in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/they/).

- **Elles** se sont battues.
  **They** had a fight.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2549270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549270) [\#2931115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2931115))

- **Elles** sont du siècle.
  **They** are of the age.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2667)

- **Elles** furent un sujet d’amertume pour le cœur d’Isaac et de Rebecca.
  **They** grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 26:35)

- J'espère qu'**elle** ne le fera jamais.
  I hope that **they** will never do it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 491467)

- **Elles** sont dénommées «unités» si le fonds est un trust.
  **They** are known as units if the fund is a trust.
  ([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 2573668)

## she

Used about 82 315 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 630 · literary ≈ 506 · biblical ≈ 302 · parliamentary ≈ 1 303 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 455 · UN documents ≈ 69 119). Meaning: [she in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/she/).

- **Elle** me fait peur.
  **She**'s scaring me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11942774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11942774) [\#11942771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11942771))

- --Entrez, monsieur, dit-**elle**.
  “Enter, sir,” **she** said.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17163)

- **Elle** se procure de la laine et du lin, Et travaille d’une main joyeuse.
  **She** seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 31:13)

- Monsieur le Président, ma tante octogénaire m'a assuré qu'**elle** n'achèterait jamais d'aliments génétiquement modifiés.
  Mr President, my 80-year-old aunt has assured me that **she** will never buy genetically modified foods in her life.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1673056)

- **Elle** a retenu contre les personnes accusées des preuves et des témoignages sans rapport avec **elles**.
  **She** sustained the use of evidence and testimonies irrelevant to the accused persons.
  ([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 2261221)

## them

Used about 63 821 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 247 · literary ≈ 67 · biblical ≈ 242 · parliamentary ≈ 1 303 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 364 · UN documents ≈ 57 599). Meaning: [them in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/them/).

- **Elles** sont toutes différentes.
  All of **them** are different.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5066370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5066370) [\#6380927](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6380927))

- «Maître, dit l'une d'**elles** en lui faisant signe de s'approcher...
  “Master,” said one of **them**, making him a sign to approach.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 277)

- Or, la loi ne procède pas de la foi; mais **elle** dit: Celui qui mettra ces choses en pratique vivra par **elles**.
  The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does **them** will live by them.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 3:12)

- Certaines d'entre **elles** sont devenues des entreprises de taille importante, voire des leaders mondiaux, dans le secteur de la haute technologie.
  Some of **them** have become large companies, even world leaders, in the high-technology sector.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1964756)

- Ces citernes étant «nominalement vides», la quantité de matières dangereuses qu'**elles** contiennent réellement est, par définition, extrêmement faible.
  As the tanks are ‘nominally empty’, the amount of dangerous goods actually contained in **them** is by definition extremely small.
  ([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 545153)

## More sentences

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

- Combien de temps une langue morte peut-**elle** vivre ?
  How long can a dead language survive?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1723784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1723784) [\#1719102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1719102))

- L'une quelconque de vos amies s'est-**elle** jamais fait arrêter ?
  Have any of your friends ever been arrested?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1434564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1434564) [\#1436258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1436258))

- J'ai couché avec **elle**.
  I've made love with her.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#14067091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14067091) [\#14067086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14067086))

## 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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