writing — English to French

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

What it means: writing in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: writing (46 415), writings (969). By style: everyday 435 · literary 17 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 11 295 · legal and administrative 6 293 · UN documents 29 314.

écrit

Used about 32 292 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 282 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 9 584 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 991 · UN documents ≈ 17 405). Forms: écrire, écrit, écrits, écriture.

• Tom isn't writing.

  Tom n'écrit pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #7969639 #9159649

• Ah! yes, the writing.

  Ah! oui, à l'écriture!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16044

• But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

  Mais si vous ne croyez pas à ses écrits, comment croirez-vous à mes paroles?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 5:47

• in writing. - I welcome this report.

  par écrit. - (EN) Je me félicite de ce rapport.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1573372

• Such declarations shall be made in writing.

  Ces déclarations sont faites par écrit.

  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 1950284

More sentences

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

• Why is a raven like a writing-desk?

  Pourquoi est-ce qu'un corbeau ressemble à un pupitre ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Manfredo and Scott · checked, community translation · #541180 #549094

• I'm writing an article.

  Je rédige un article.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5647188 #4595689

• What are you writing in your notebook?

  Qu'est-ce que tu écris dans ton carnet ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #14006594 #14006595

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