lettre — French to English

How French lettre is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: lettre (168 223), lettres (37 642). By style: everyday 1 213 · literary 77 · biblical 92 · parliamentary 3 784 · legal and administrative 19 101 · UN documents 181 598.

letter

Used about 166 281 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 125 · literary ≈ 73 · biblical ≈ 76 · parliamentary ≈ 3 035 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 315 · UN documents ≈ 145 657). Forms: letter, letters. Meaning: letter in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom écrit une lettre.

  Tom is writing a letter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shishir and CK · checked, community translation · #3023564 #3045147

• Marius prit la lettre.

  Marius took the letter.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24827

• Il écrivit une lettre ainsi conçue:

  He wrote a letter like this:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 23:25

• Je ne pense pas que les lettres suffisent.

  I do not think letters are sufficient.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1620052

• 22 juin 2004: lettre de FT

  22 June 2004: letter from France Télécom

  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 825038

addressed

Used about 200 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 199).

• La première lettre était adressée: à Madame, madame la marquise de Grucheray, place vis-à-vis la chambre des députés, nº...

  The first was addressed: “To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.—”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15855

• La démission est signifiée par lettre au président du Comité.

  Resignations shall be in writing and shall be addressed to the President of the Committee.

  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 434716

council

Used about 79 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79). Meaning: council in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Nous attendons de la présidence du Conseil qu'elle suive à la lettre les recommandations de cette autorité de contrôle.

  We expect the Council presidency to carry out the Authority's recommendations here.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1942250

• Pour le rectificatif, j'aimerais que l'on supprime la référence à une réunion du Conseil Tourisme à la lettre d, parce que celle-ci n'a jamais eu lieu.

  The correction I request is the deletion in recital D of the reference to the meeting of the Tourism Council, since it never took place.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1731906

received

Used about 39 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 39).

• J'ai à nouveau écrit une lettre le 12 juillet 2001 et je n'ai reçu aucune réponse.

  I wrote again on 12 July 2001 and received no reply.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 267602

sent

Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1).

• Huram, roi de Tyr, répondit dans une lettre qu’il envoya à Salomon: C’est parce que l’Éternel aime son peuple qu’il t’a établi roi sur eux.

  Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them.”

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

More sentences

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

• Il y a deux semaines, je t'ai écrit une lettre. Pourrais-tu avoir l'obligeance de me répondre, s'il te plaît.

  I wrote to you a fortnight ago. Could you get round to replying, please?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · #11023039 #6841438

• J'ai suivi le régime à la lettre.

  I followed the diet strictly.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #4879970 #12020604

• C'est écrit en lettres minuscules.

  It's written in lowercase.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adrien_FR and DJ_Saidez · checked, community translation · #9176752 #11623160

Grammar

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