sign — English to French

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

What it means: sign in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sign (33 951), signs (19 488). By style: everyday 331 · literary 56 · biblical 147 · parliamentary 4 813 · legal and administrative 5 573 · UN documents 42 519.

signe

Used about 22 210 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 214 · literary ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 83 · parliamentary ≈ 3 058 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 309 · UN documents ≈ 15 502). Forms: signe, signer, signes.

• It's a sign.

  C'est un signe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2249009 #6219187

• The shadowy eye is the other sign.

  La prunelle ombre est l'autre signe.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15602

• Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

  Et d’autres, pour l’éprouver, lui demandèrent un signe venant du ciel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 11:16

• This is a very serious sign.

  C'est un signe très grave.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1136084

• Biohazard sign on the door

  Signe de danger biologique sur la porte

  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 811818

More sentences

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

• Sign on this line.

  Signez sur cette ligne.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1860607 #7063914

• Did you sign the contract?

  Avez-vous signé le contrat ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Blabla · checked, community translation · #3334032 #5073752

• I'll sign the petition.

  Je signerai la pétition.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5186971 #6443921

Grammar

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