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# porter — French to English

How French *porter* 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: portaient (7 794), portait (10 836), porte (86 425), portent (39 117), porter (72 286), portes (12 239), portez (232), portons (426), porté (38 780), portée (75 782), portées (19 237), portés (13 386). By style: everyday 3 301 · literary 370 · biblical 797 · parliamentary 19 432 · legal and administrative 35 913 · UN documents 316 727.

## door

Used about 25 776 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 349 · literary ≈ 149 · biblical ≈ 85 · parliamentary ≈ 980 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 318 · UN documents ≈ 20 895). Forms: door, doors. Meaning: [door in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/door/).

- Je verrouillais la **porte**.
  I bolted the **door**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5858587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5858587) [\#2219311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2219311))

- Fauchelevent poussa la **porte**.
  Fauchelevent opened the **door**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12372)

- Mais celui qui entre par la **porte** est le berger des brebis.
  But one who enters in by the **door** is the shepherd of the sheep.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 10:2)

- Les **portes** ne se sont jamais ouvertes.
  The **door** remained closed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 156319)

- **Portes** intérieures et rideaux
  Internal **doors** and curtains
  ([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 1075691)

## More sentences

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

- N'oubliez pas de **porter** une cravate.
  Don't forget to wear a tie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2270380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2270380) [\#8760671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8760671))

- Il fait encore trop froid pour **porter** un short.
  It's still too cold to wear shorts.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3048839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3048839) [\#524385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/524385))

- Dites à Tom qu'il lui faut **porter** une cravate demain.
  Tell Tom that he needs to wear a tie tomorrow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2640297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2640297) [\#5393670](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5393670))

## 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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