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# libre — French to English

How French *libre* 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: libre (68 018), libres (19 047). By style: everyday 497 · literary 17 · biblical 47 · parliamentary 13 426 · legal and administrative 14 595 · UN documents 58 483.

## free

Used about 59 346 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 347 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 11 608 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 186 · UN documents ≈ 37 161). Meaning: [free in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/free/).

- Je suis **libre** maintenant.
  I'm **free** now.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cocorico and CK · checked, community translation · [\#257494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/257494) [\#6541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6541))

- --Être **libre**, dit Combeferre.
  “To be **free**,” said Combeferre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14640)

- Si donc le Fils vous affranchit, vous serez réellement **libres**.
  If therefore the Son makes you **free**, you will be free indeed.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 8:36)

- Elle a donc les mains **libres**.
  It thus has a **free** hand.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1837392)

- Hauteur **libre** au-dessus des places assises
  **Free** height over seating positions
  ([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 5418893)

## More sentences

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

- Tom apprécie d'être **libre**.
  Tom is enjoying his freedom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7544351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7544351) [\#7552442](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7552442))

- Une table pour deux est-elle **libre** vendredi ?
  Is there a table available for two on Friday?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#18484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18484) [\#971358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/971358))

- **Libre** à toi d'accepter ou de refuser.
  It's up to you whether to accept or decline.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and trainman · checked, community translation · [\#6588267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6588267) [\#6587901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6587901))

## 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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