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High-Quality French Translation Services
AD VERBUM offers you our professional French translation services. Our highly reliable, affordable, and fast translation services have been the first choice of our clients across the globe for over a decade.
French is one of the core European languages, with approximately 274 million speakers across the globe. With the help of our network of experienced and tested linguists, the AD VERBUM team offers you access to French speakers from any market and industry.
Or perhaps you're looking for French to English translation? We've got you covered on that too!
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AD VERBUM pricing plans are designed to provide our clients with maximum flexibility when translating from or into French. Every plan includes Translation Memory support, which results in lower costs for all of your translation projects, at no extra charge!
French Translation Services
AD VERBUM provides a wide range of professional human-driven English to French B2B Translation and Localization Services, covering a multitude of content types.
Types of Content we Translate into French
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Documents
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Software
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Hardware
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Video Games
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Websites
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Publications
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Mobile Applications
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Manuals
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User Interfaces
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Audio Content
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Video Content
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Product Descriptions
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Technical Spreadsheets
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Scripts
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Patents
And many more! Contact us and let us know what type of content you wish to translate from English into French.
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We cover a multitude of industries for our English into French translation services.
English to French Translation
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AD VERBUM hosts a global network of French Translators who are experts in their respective fields, with years of both linguistic expertise and hands-on professional experience in their industry.
Clients choose AD VERBUM’s translation services because we are able to deliver high-quality French translations on time, every time, thanks to our innovative approach to translation, which uses the latest translation industry technologies, and has high quality in mind for every stage of the project, regardless of its size and complexity.
English to French Translation
When you translate from English to French, you have to keep in mind several key factors that make English to French translation highly complex for translators.
Below we list linguistic examples:
French Grammatical Cases
In French, adjectives generally follow the noun, for example, ‘ville moderne’ (literal translation: ‘city modern’) when in English it is ‘modern city’. Of course, there are exceptions in French with adjectives, for example, the French words for ‘good’, ‘new’, ‘little’, etc., but this is not that common.
In French, all nouns take either the article ‘le’ or ‘la’, for example, the noun city has the article ‘la’ (or ‘feminine’), so the adjective ‘modern(e)’ will also be modified by adding ‘e’ at the end. Nouns do not change that way in English.
In French, accents (‘aigu’, ‘grave’, ‘circonflexe’, ‘tréma’) are used in many words, while in English they are only used in foreign words.
The possessive adjective provides information about gender, number, and person (information about the possessor).
Examples of French Possessive Adjectives
English | Masculine | Feminine | Plural |
My | Mon | Ma | Mes |
Your | Ton | Ta | Tes |
Her/His/Its | Son | Sa | Ses |
Our | Notre | Notre | Nos |
Your | Votre | Votre | Vos |
Their | Leur | Leur | Leurs |
In French, some nouns are in the masculine form and others in the feminine. This is not present in the grammar of English, which has no case endings, as there is no feminine or masculine in English aside from a few exceptions, such as ‘lion’ and ‘lioness’.
In French, you need to make sure that the adjective is in grammatical agreement with the noun it modifies.
In English, contrary to French, there is no grammatical gender.
Two singulars are treated as a plural. (‘Le chat et le chien couchés sous la table dorment’) (‘The cat and dog are lying under the table asleep’).
The masculine prevails over the feminine. (‘Maman et papa énervés se sont mis à crier’) (‘Angry mom and dad started screaming’).
In French, adjectives agree in gender and number.
The determiners ‘le, la, les’ are referred to as definite articles. They are used in front of a noun designating a being or a thing that is presented as known.
The determiners ‘un, une, des’ are known as indefinite articles. They are used in front of a noun designating a being or a thing that has not yet been mentioned and is not presented as known. Each determiner has a special function and agrees with the gender and number of the noun.
The process of translating from English to French is complex, especially considering that the structure of sentences in French is different from that in English.
French Conjugation
Verbs in French change depending on the mood, tense, person and number, whereas in English, only the third person is different.
In French conjugation, there are 7 moods; a distinction is made between personal moods (Indicative, Subjunctive, Conditional and Imperative) which address a person, and impersonal moods (Gerund, Participle and Infinite).
French verbs are divided into 3 groups:
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1st group: verbs ending in -er (except for ‘aller’)
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2nd group: verbs ending in -ir, with the gerund ending in -issant
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3rd group: verbs ending in -re (with the exception of irregular verbs).
French Language Facts
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The fear of long words (this pathology does exist) is called ‘hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie’.
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French was the official language of England for over 300 years. French became the official language of France in 1539 to replace Latin as the language of the courts and chancelleries.
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‘La Disparition’ is a lipogram novel, a figure of speech that consists of a text from which certain letters of the alphabet are deliberately excluded. Written by Georges Perec, this 300-page book does not include the letter ‘e’ once.
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Along with English and Portuguese, French is the only language spoken on all continents. This trend is the result of a colonialist past shared with the United Kingdom.
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With its 6 letters, ‘oiseau’ is the smallest word in the French language containing all the vowels.
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French has more than a million words and 20,000 new ones are created every year.
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The shortest town name is Y. It is located in Somme, northern France.
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In French, the word for ‘I’ does not require capitalization (‘Today, I am fine.’ - ‘Aujourd’hui, je vais bien’).
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There are more French speakers on the African continent than in Europe. This is because in the past the French colonized a lot of African territories.
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The French don't use QWERTY keyboards but AZERTY keyboards.
French Translation Tips
Non-breaking spaces before punctuation. (‘How are you?’ – ‘Comment allez-vous ?’).
Special quotation marks are used in French, for example « Bonjour ! », meaning ‘Hello!’.
Adjectives of nationality (French), nouns of days (Tuesday) and months (May) and titles (the Minister of Finance) are not capitalized in French, unlike in English.
Monsieur (Mister) is abbreviated to ‘M.’ and not to ‘Mr.’, which comes from the English mister and is therefore reserved for English.
For English, French can be similar, here are a few examples:
Month in French | Month in English |
janvier | January |
février | February |
mars | March |
avril | April |
mai | May |
juin | June |
juillet | July |
août | August |
septembre | September |
octobre | October |
novembre | November |
décembre | December |
There are tricky French words that sound like words in English, but are not equal in meaning. They are called ‘false friends’; here are some French false cognates to watch out for:
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actuellement – currently (not actually)
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attendre – to wait (not to attend)
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assister – to attend (not to assist)
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bras – arms (not bra)
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blessé – injured (not blessed)
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une librarie – bookshop (not library)
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un raisin – grape (not raisin)
Popular French Translation Examples
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Bonjour - Good morning (le matin)
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Bonsoir - Good evening
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Salut - Hi, Hello
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Comment ça va ? - How’s it going?
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Je m’appelle… - My name is…
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Comment tu t’appelles / vous appelez vous ? - What’s your name?
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A bientôt - See you soon
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Oui - yes
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Non - no
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Je ne sais pas - I don’t know
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Je ne comprends pas - I don’t understand
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Me comprenez-vous ? - Do you understand me?
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Comment se prononce ce caractère - How do you pronounce this character?
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Comment appelez-vous cela ? - What is this called?
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Plus lentement, s’il vous plaît - slower please
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Je ne parle pas (bien) anglais - I do not speak English (very well)
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Je parle (un peu) anglais - I speak (a little) English
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Vous m’avez mal compris - You misunderstood me
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Tu peux répéter s’il te plaît ? - Can you repeat that, please? (informal)
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Comment dit-on … en anglais ? - How do you say … in English?
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Je suis en train d’apprendre l’anglais - I’m learning English
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Que signifie … ? - What does … mean?
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père - father
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mère - mother
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enfant - child or a kid
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grand-père - grandfather
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grand-mère - grandmother
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fille - daughter
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fils - son
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oncle - uncle
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tante - aunt
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frère - brother
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sœur - sister