speak — English to French

How English speak is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: speak in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: speak (31 922), speaks (2 917). By style: everyday 3 366 · literary 92 · biblical 467 · parliamentary 9 810 · legal and administrative 322 · UN documents 20 782.

parle

Used about 14 130 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 595 · literary ≈ 54 · biblical ≈ 221 · parliamentary ≈ 3 372 · legal and administrative ≈ 95 · UN documents ≈ 7 793). Forms: parle, parler.

• I'll speak to Tom.

  Je vais parler avec Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rockaround · checked, community translation · #2262017 #7810827

• I will speak with them.

  Je vais leur parler.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8548

• Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

  Jésus lui dit: Je le suis, moi qui te parle.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 4:26

• The report speaks of efficiency.

  Le rapport parle d'efficience.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1915695

• Speaks fluent English, Urdu and Arabic.

  Parle couramment l'anglais, l'ourdou et l'arabe.

  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 4279796

parole

Used about 2 464 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 409 · legal and administrative ≈ 84 · UN documents ≈ 1 948).

• The Professor was the first to speak, and said:

  Le professeur avait le premier pris la parole, et dit:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3972

• Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel!

  Écoutez la parole que l’Éternel vous adresse, Maison d’Israël!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 10:1

• Mr McMahon wishes to speak on a point of order.

  La parole est à M. McMahon pour une motion de procédure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1827206

• to invite the Parties to speak;

  donner la parole aux parties;

  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 2542958

• Also, NGOs were given only three minutes to speak.

  De surcroît, elles ont eu seulement trois minutes pour prendre la parole.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 24581960

anglais

Used about 768 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 245 · parliamentary ≈ 307 · UN documents ≈ 216).

• He speaks English well.

  Il est doué en anglais.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and dominiko · checked, community translation · #294011 #131633

• (The speaker speaks in English)

  (L'orateur s'exprime en anglais)

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1558606

• Speaks English, German, Serbian, Croatian, Russian and Italian

  Anglais, allemand, serbe, croate, russe et italien

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14586070

• You speak English very well.

  Tu parles très bien anglais.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6067799 #8823444

• If that is the case, I immediately propose that from that moment onwards, we only speak English in Parliament as well.

  Si c' est le cas, je propose immédiatement que nous ne parlions dès lors plus que l' anglais également au sein de ce Parlement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152292

français

Used about 564 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 245 · parliamentary ≈ 102 · UN documents ≈ 216).

• Do you two speak French?

  Vous parlez français tous les deux ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11547837 #11547839

• Madam President, I will speak to you in French, to make it easy for you, as you spoke on this question.

  Madame, je vous parlerai en français, pour que cela soit plus facile pour vous puisque vous êtes intervenue à cet égard.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1785730

• Speaks (besides Slovenian): Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Serbian.

  Slovène, croate, anglais, français, allemand, italien, polonais, serbe (parlés).

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 6635130

• We both can speak French.

  Nous parlons tous les deux français.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #6863329 #8737443

• I want to learn how to speak French.

  Je veux apprendre à parler le français.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2396148 #2398070

More sentences

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

• Do you speak Nahuatl?

  Parlez-vous le nahuatl ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #5871050 #8735056

• Do you speak Arabic?

  Vous parlez l'arabe ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and manu · checked, community translation · #434624 #585824

• You speak fluent German.

  Vous parlez couramment allemand.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Amastan · checked, community translation · #12847929 #2286229

Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: English grammar · French grammar · translating between English and French · translating from English · translating into French.

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