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# référence — French to English

How French *référence* 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: référence (169 180), références (17 846). By style: everyday 27 · parliamentary 9 368 · legal and administrative 62 477 · UN documents 115 154.

## reference

Used about 146 102 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 6 148 · legal and administrative ≈ 55 969 · UN documents ≈ 83 966). Forms: reference, references, refers. Meaning: [reference in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/reference/).

- Quelles sont tes **références** ?
  What are your **references**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#12429390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12429390) [\#12429378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12429378))

- De nombreuses **références** ont porté sur la Tchétchénie.
  Many **references** have been made to Chechnya.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 565886)

- date de **référence** de la soumission;
  **reference** date for the submission;
  ([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 4708096)

- 3.2.11.2 Gammes de **références** ou de réglages9, 12
  3.2.11.2. **Reference** and/or setting ranges:9,12
  ([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 28142978)

- Il a fait **référence** à mon livre.
  He made **reference** to my book.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#297952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297952) [\#132316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132316))

## More sentences

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

- Elle y a fait **référence** dans son journal.
  She wrote about it in her diary.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#311105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/311105) [\#1071475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1071475))

- À qui fais-tu **référence** ?
  Who are you referring to?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#276502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/276502) [\#13257654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13257654))

- À quoi le journal fait-il **référence** ?
  What is the newspaper referring to?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11249947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11249947) [\#11249963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11249963))

## 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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