lettres — French to English

How French lettres is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: lettres (37 642). By style: everyday 252 · literary 30 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 669 · legal and administrative 5 618 · UN documents 31 039.

letters

Used about 29 319 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 226 · literary ≈ 29 · biblical ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 544 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 565 · UN documents ≈ 23 926). Forms: letter, letters.

• Il y avait trois lettres.

  There were three letters.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3823059 #6914949

• Il se faisait adresser ses lettres chez Courfeyrac.

  He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac’s quarters.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14770

• afin que je ne paraisse pas vouloir vous intimider par mes lettres.

  that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 10:9

• 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

• si nécessaire, un indicateur en trois lettres.

  if required, a three-letter indicator.

  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 4272162

More sentences

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

• 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

• Mets-le dans une boîte aux lettres.

  Put it in a postbox.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · #11042076 #11045241

• Le facteur vide la boîte aux lettres.

  The postman empties the postbox.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and sundown · checked, community translation · #10993825 #1594815

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