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# saint — French to English

How French *saint* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: saint (40 290), sainte (16 690), saintes (358), saints (1 748). By style: everyday 173 · literary 215 · biblical 534 · parliamentary 1 000 · legal and administrative 3 549 · UN documents 53 615.

## holy

Used about 23 216 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 27 · biblical ≈ 411 · parliamentary ≈ 303 · legal and administrative ≈ 939 · UN documents ≈ 21 502). Meaning: [holy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/holy/).

- Les bandits ont volé le **Saint** Graal.
  The bandits stole the **Holy** Grail.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and FeuDRenais2 · checked, community translation · [\#799646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/799646) [\#799645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/799645))

- --**Sainte** Vierge! murmura Gringoire, le roi d'ici, ce doit être un bouc.
  “**Holy** Virgin!” murmured Gringoire, “the king here must be a ram.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1203)

- Saluez tous les frères par un **saint** baiser.
  Greet all the brothers with a **holy** kiss.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TH 5:26)

- Galilée a été condamné par la **Sainte** Inquisition.
  Galileo was condemned by the **Holy** Inquisition.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1803067)

- **Saint**-Siège (État de la Cité du Vatican)
  **Holy** See (Vatican City State)
  ([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 1060830)

## saint

Used about 16 894 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 66 · literary ≈ 112 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 103 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 531 · UN documents ≈ 15 079). Meaning: [saint in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/saint/).

- Il n'est pas un **saint**.
  He's no **saint**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1932073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1932073) [\#1932567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1932567))

- Ça s'appelle **Saint**-Loup.
  It is called **Saint**-Loup.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29104)

- Saluez tous les **saints** en Jésus-Christ. Les frères qui sont avec moi vous saluent.
  Greet every **saint** in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 4:21)

- Le bateau s'appelait le **Saint**-Louis.
  The ship was called the **Saint** Louis.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1550571)

- **Saint**-Christophe-et-Nevis
  **Saint** Kitts and Nevis
  ([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 1564765)

## st

Used about 6 716 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 103 · legal and administrative ≈ 452 · UN documents ≈ 6 143).

- Joyeuse fête de la **Saint**-Patrick !
  Happy **St**. Patrick's Day!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and zumley · checked, community translation · [\#6783462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6783462) [\#9851168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9851168))

- Mais, par **saint** Michel! garde-toi bien de te tromper!»
  But, by **St**. Michael, if you should dare to deceive me--"
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 144)

- Je vais vous citer l'Évangile selon **Saint**-Mathieu, chapitre 22.
  I refer you to the Gospel of **St** Matthew, Chapter 22.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1366527)

- **Saint**-Pierre-et-Miquelon
  **St** Pierre and Miquelon
  ([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 688991)

- **Sainte**-Hélène et dépendances
  **St**. Helena, St. Helena Dependencies
  ([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 2779361)

## More sentences

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

- Il ne serait pas exagéré d'affirmer que **saint** Augustin eut une influence non seulement sur la religion chrétienne, mais aussi sur l'ensemble de la pensée occidentale.
  It would not be an exaggeration to say that Augustine's thought had an influence not only on Christianity but on the whole of Western thought.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#392630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/392630) [\#392632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/392632))

- Oui, tu devrais porter du rouge à lèvres pour la **Saint**-Valentin.
  Yes, you should wear red lipstick for Valentine's day.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2220975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2220975) [\#2222119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2222119))

- La plus ancienne république d'Europe se nomme **Saint**-Marin.
  The oldest republic in Europe is named San Marino.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2148959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2148959) [\#2148967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2148967))

## 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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