sent — English to French

How English sent is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sent (85 179). By style: everyday 441 · literary 34 · biblical 654 · parliamentary 3 098 · legal and administrative 9 697 · UN documents 71 255.

envoyé

Used about 8 756 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 276 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 177 · parliamentary ≈ 1 420 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 424 · UN documents ≈ 4 453).

• God sent a sign.

  Dieu a envoyé un signe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1542326 #1542663

• It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet.

  C'est à Bossuet qu'il a envoyé Navet.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23818

• He who sees me sees him who sent me.

  et celui qui me voit voit celui qui m’a envoyé.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 12:45

• I therefore sent this letter only today.

  J'ai donc envoyé cette lettre aujourd'hui même.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1290938

• The Commission sent questionnaires to all known importers and traders.

  La Commission a envoyé des questionnaires à tous les importateurs et négociants connus.

  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 1616753

lettre

Used about 3 650 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 55 · parliamentary ≈ 194 · legal and administrative ≈ 404 · UN documents ≈ 2 969).

• Once he had written the letter, he sent it.

  La lettre écrite, il l'expédia.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #631785 #791572

• I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français.

  «Je me permets de vous adresser cette lettre pour vous prier de m'accorder la faveur prétieuse de vos simpaties et de vous intéresser à un homme de lettres qui vient d'envoyer un drame au théâtre-français.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15873

• In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

  Le lendemain matin, David écrivit une lettre à Joab, et l’envoya par la main d’Urie.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 11:14

• I refer to the letter that I sent to the President yesterday.

  Je me réfère à la lettre que j'ai envoyée hier à la Présidente.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 242609

• By letter dated 7 July 2010, the Commission sent that complaint to Germany and requested information.

  Par lettre du 7 juillet 2010, la Commission a transmis la plainte à l'Allemagne et lui a demandé des renseignements.

  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 4216851

More sentences

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

• Did you get the flowers I sent you?

  Avez-vous reçu les fleurs que je vous ai envoyées ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1886152 #6843697

• The warden sent Dan back to solitary confinement.

  Le directeur a renvoyé Dan à l'isolement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3930983 #8411921

• I just sent you a present in the mail.

  Je viens de vous envoyer un cadeau par la poste.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1203682 #1421987

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