person — English to French

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

What it means: person in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: person (200 365), persons (500 389). By style: everyday 1 099 · literary 88 · biblical 108 · parliamentary 8 172 · legal and administrative 63 665 · UN documents 627 622.

personne

Used about 510 043 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 869 · literary ≈ 27 · biblical ≈ 34 · parliamentary ≈ 5 618 · legal and administrative ≈ 52 391 · UN documents ≈ 451 103). Forms: personne, personnes.

• Go and see him in person.

  Allez le voir en personne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #241116 #8590

• Or rather, his whole person was a grimace.

  Ou plutôt toute sa personne était une grimace.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 698

• and sixteen thousand persons),

  et seize mille personnes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 31:46

• Movement of persons with a long-stay visa (

  Circulation des personnes titulaires d'un visa de long séjour (

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1353306

• a legal person; or

  une personne morale, ou

  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 510995

More sentences

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

• The first person to repeat that to my wife, I will strangle. Understood?

  Le premier qui répète cela à ma femme, je l'étrangle, compris ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by caspian and sysko · checked, community translation · #1435898 #566566

• He had a gun on his person.

  Il avait une arme sur lui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #257233 #8435536

• I'm not a gullible person.

  Je ne suis pas quelqu'un de crédule.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6128572 #10485811

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