English to French Translation: Free AI Translator With Tips
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Translate English into French with the free AdeptWrite AI translator, already set to this pair. French needs a choice between tu and vous, gender for every noun and different punctuation spacing, and its false friends with English are numerous. Written French also varies between France, Canada and Africa. Paste your text, choose a tone, and check names, figures and specialist terms before you send or publish the result.
Tips for this language pair
- Choose tu or vous. Use vous with customers, colleagues you do not know and anyone older, and tu with friends and family. Pick the Formal tone for vous and check the pronouns in the result.
- Beware false friends: actuellement means currently, assister à means to attend, demander means to ask, and une librairie is a bookshop.
- Follow French typography: a space before ? ! : and ;, guillemets « » for quotations, and lowercase days, months and languages.
- Adjectives usually follow the noun and agree in gender and number, so "a new idea" is "une idée nouvelle" or "une nouvelle idée" with a slightly different meaning.
- Do not capitalize as in English. French writes weekdays, months, languages and nationalities in lowercase, so "on Monday in October" is "lundi, en octobre".
Example translations
| Original · English | Translation · French | Why it is translated this way |
|---|---|---|
| Please find the report attached. | Veuillez trouver ci-joint le rapport. | A standard formal formula in business email. Veuillez and vous-forms keep the tone polite. |
| I am currently studying in Lyon. | J’étudie actuellement à Lyon. | Actuellement means currently, not actually. The elision J’ is required before a vowel. |
| Can I ask you a question? | Puis-je vous poser une question ? | French says "poser une question", not "demander". A space comes before the question mark. |
| We attended the conference. | Nous avons assisté à la conférence. | Assister à is to attend. Using it with the wrong preposition, or the English sense of "assist", is a common error. |
| See you on Monday. | À lundi ! | The weekday has no capital letter, and French puts a space before the exclamation mark. |
Frequently asked questions
Is the English to French translator free?
Yes. It is free and needs no sign-up. Paste a few paragraphs at a time (the tool shows the limit per request), choose a natural, formal or casual tone, and translate longer documents section by section. Your text is not stored or used to train models.
Does it use French from France or Canada?
It produces standard written French understood everywhere. Some words differ by region, for example courriel in Canada and e-mail in France, so review vocabulary if you write for a specific audience.
Will it add the right punctuation spaces?
It aims to follow French typography, but spacing before ? ! : and ; may need a quick check, especially if you paste the text into a layout program that handles non-breaking spaces differently.