letters — English to French

How English letters is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: letters (36 591). By style: everyday 226 · literary 32 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 685 · legal and administrative 5 091 · UN documents 30 523.

lettres

Used about 28 006 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 212 · literary ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 499 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 349 · UN documents ≈ 22 892).

• I have to send these letters.

  Je dois envoyer ces lettres.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1744766 #7554960

• He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac’s quarters.

  Il se faisait adresser ses lettres chez Courfeyrac.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14770

• that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

  afin que je ne paraisse pas vouloir vous intimider par mes lettres.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 10:9

• I do not think letters are sufficient.

  Je ne pense pas que les lettres suffisent.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1620052

• letters of credit and guarantees;

  les lettres de crédit et les garanties;

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 1774119

More sentences

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

• The postman delivers letters every morning.

  Le facteur distribue le courrier tous les matins.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and superbolo · checked, community translation · #324535 #393429

• Write your name in capital letters.

  Écrivez votre nom en majuscules.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · #275957 #333137

• Toki Pona uses capital letters only for names.

  Toki pona utilise des majuscules uniquement pour les noms.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11011268 #11011319

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