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Forms: letter, letters. Meaning: [letter in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/letter/). - Tom écrit une **lettre**. Tom is writing a **letter**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shishir and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3023564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3023564) [\#3045147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3045147)) - Marius prit la **lettre**. Marius took the **letter**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24827) - Il écrivit une **lettre** ainsi conçue: He wrote a **letter** like this: ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 23:25) - Je ne pense pas que les **lettres** suffisent. I do not think **letters** are sufficient. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1620052) - 22 juin 2004: **lettre** de FT 22 June 2004: **letter** from France Télécom ([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 825038) ## addressed Used about 200 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 199). - La première **lettre** était adressée: à Madame, madame la marquise de Grucheray, place vis-à-vis la chambre des députés, nº... The first was **addressed**: “To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.—” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15855) - La démission est signifiée par **lettre** au président du Comité. Resignations shall be in writing and shall be **addressed** to the President of the Committee. ([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 434716) ## council Used about 79 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79). Meaning: [council in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/council/). - Nous attendons de la présidence du Conseil qu'elle suive à la **lettre** les recommandations de cette autorité de contrôle. We expect the **Council** presidency to carry out the Authority's recommendations here. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1942250) - Pour le rectificatif, j'aimerais que l'on supprime la référence à une réunion du Conseil Tourisme à la **lettre** d, parce que celle-ci n'a jamais eu lieu. The correction I request is the deletion in recital D of the reference to the meeting of the Tourism **Council**, since it never took place. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1731906) ## received Used about 39 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 39). - J'ai à nouveau écrit une **lettre** le 12 juillet 2001 et je n'ai reçu aucune réponse. I wrote again on 12 July 2001 and **received** no reply. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 267602) ## sent Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1). - Huram, roi de Tyr, répondit dans une **lettre** qu’il envoya à Salomon: C’est parce que l’Éternel aime son peuple qu’il t’a établi roi sur eux. Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he **sent** to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 2:11) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il y a deux semaines, je t'ai écrit une **lettre**. Pourrais-tu avoir l'obligeance de me répondre, s'il te plaît. I wrote to you a fortnight ago. Could you get round to replying, please? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11023039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11023039) [\#6841438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6841438)) - J'ai suivi le régime à la **lettre**. I followed the diet strictly. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4879970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4879970) [\#12020604](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12020604)) - C'est écrit en **lettres** minuscules. It's written in lowercase. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adrien\_FR and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#9176752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9176752) [\#11623160](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11623160)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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