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# personne — French to English

How French *personne* 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: personne (220 083), personnes (706 713). By style: everyday 5 159 · literary 107 · biblical 440 · parliamentary 45 560 · legal and administrative 72 364 · UN documents 803 166.

## person

Used about 516 615 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 484 · literary ≈ 23 · biblical ≈ 32 · parliamentary ≈ 4 746 · legal and administrative ≈ 59 550 · UN documents ≈ 451 781). Forms: person, persons. Meaning: [person in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/person/).

- Je connais cette **personne**.
  I know this **person**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#12036725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12036725) [\#12036629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12036629))

- On ne voyait rien de sa **personne**, ni sa face ni ses mains.
  Nothing was visible of his **person**, neither face nor hands.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5178)

- et seize mille **personnes**.
  and sixteen thousand **persons**),
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 31:46)

- Mais c'est trop demander à la **personne** concernée.
  That, however, is asking too much of the **person** concerned.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 489173)

- Nom de la **personne** physique
  Name of the natural **person**
  ([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 3993922)

## people

Used about 121 743 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 257 · biblical ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 17 560 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 508 · UN documents ≈ 100 396). Meaning: [people in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/people/).

- Il manque encore trois **personnes**.
  Three **people** are still missing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#72683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72683) [\#504044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/504044))

- Le roi de Sodome dit à Abram: Donne-moi les **personnes**, et prends pour toi les richesses.
  The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the **people**, and take the goods for yourself.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 14:21)

- Elles ont un impact sur la santé des **personnes**.
  They have an impact on **people**'s health.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1085522)

- Nombre de **personnes** ayant participé à des activités de formation
  Number of **people** having participated in training activities
  ([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 1340059)

- Pendant cette période, ce sont surtout des **personnes** ayant un niveau d &apos; instruction faible à moyen qui ont émigré;
  During this period mainly low and medium-educated **people** emigrated.
  ([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 24291487)

## one

Used about 33 994 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 806 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 147 · parliamentary ≈ 7 119 · legal and administrative ≈ 754 · UN documents ≈ 25 099). Meaning: [one in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/one/).

- **Personne** n'est ici.
  No **one**'s here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2249608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2249608) [\#3648130](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3648130))

- Il n'y avait **personne**.
  There was no **one** there.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20075)

- Vous jugez selon la chair; moi, je ne juge **personne**.
  You judge according to the flesh. I judge no **one**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 8:15)

- **Personne** n’est jamais mort d’hypocrisie, bien entendu.
  No **one** has ever died of hypocrisy, of course.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 751256)

- De plus, une fois absorbé par le corps humain, il est efficacement retenu et s’accumule tout au long de la vie de la **personne**.
  Further, once absorbed by the human body, it is efficiently retained and accumulates in it throughout **one**’s life.
  ([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 5094078)

## any

Used about 19 403 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 1 898 · legal and administrative ≈ 754 · UN documents ≈ 16 733). Meaning: [any in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/any/).

- Je n’aurai point égard à l’apparence, Et je ne flatterai **personne**;
  Please don’t let me respect **any** man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 32:21)

- **Personne** dans cette enceinte ne sait où se trouve M. Gotovina.
  Nobody in this House has **any** idea where Mr Gotovina is.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 703887)

- Un promoteur peut déléguer, dans un contrat écrit, l'une quelconque ou l'ensemble de ses tâches à une **personne**, une entreprise, une institution ou une organisation.
  **Any** sponsor may delegate, in a written contract, any or all of its tasks to an individual, a company, an institution or an organisation.
  ([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 3322284)

- Elle se demande également si le projet de code de la **personne** et de la famille ou toute autre loi condamne le viol conjugal.
  She also wondered whether the draft Personal and Family Code, or **any** other law, condemned rape within marriage.
  ([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 15155189)

- Nous ne voyons plus nos signes; Il n’y a plus de prophète, Et **personne** parmi nous qui sache jusqu’à quand…
  We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer **any** prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 74:9)

## More sentences

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

- Je n'ai jamais dit cela à **personne** auparavant.
  I've never told anybody this before.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3733420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3733420) [\#1842428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1842428))

- Ça n'a dupé **personne**.
  That didn't fool anyone.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8947964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8947964) [\#9930618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9930618))

- Je ne laisserai **personne** te faire du mal.
  I won't let anyone hurt you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1647794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1647794) [\#9731153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9731153))

## 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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