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# lettres — French to English

How French *lettres* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: lettres (37 642). By style: everyday 252 · literary 30 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 669 · legal and administrative 5 618 · UN documents 31 039.

## letters

Used about 29 319 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 226 · literary ≈ 29 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 544 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 565 · UN documents ≈ 23 926). Forms: letter, letters.

- Il y avait trois **lettres**.
  There were three **letters**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3823059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3823059) [\#6914949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6914949))

- Il se faisait adresser ses **lettres** chez Courfeyrac.
  He had his **letters** addressed to Courfeyrac’s quarters.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14770)

- afin que je ne paraisse pas vouloir vous intimider par mes **lettres**.
  that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my **letters**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 10:9)

- 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)

- si nécessaire, un indicateur en trois **lettres**.
  if required, a three-**letter** indicator.
  ([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 4272162)

## More sentences

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

- 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))

- Mets-le dans une boîte aux **lettres**.
  Put it in a postbox.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11042076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11042076) [\#11045241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11045241))

- Le facteur vide la boîte aux **lettres**.
  The postman empties the postbox.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10993825](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10993825) [\#1594815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1594815))

## 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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