French Translator

Keep English on the left to draft a French message, or swap the languages to read a French passage in English. Give the full sentence rather than a detached word when the surrounding words explain who is acting or what a pronoun refers to. After swapping, check the input labels again before pressing Translate. A previous result may already be in the input, so inspect it rather than assuming the source stayed the same.

The French Translator handles short written passages. It does not transcribe a recording or certify the wording of an official document.

An invitation, a message to a friend and a note to a colleague can require different wording. Include the relationship in your source when it matters. French choices involving tu and vous are not a cosmetic switch that can safely be applied to every sentence after translation. Keep the surrounding verb and greeting with the pronoun when reviewing a result. If a tone feels too familiar, rewrite the source with the intended relationship and compare the next draft.

The page has no automatic politeness guarantee. Review how the complete sentence addresses its reader rather than replacing one pronoun in isolation.

Use the accent keys when your physical keyboard makes a marked letter difficult to type. The keys append at the end of the accent-desk text, so you can build a name or short passage and edit its position in the box. Select uppercase keys for a capital accented letter. Keeping accents on capitals makes it easier to preserve a person’s spelling and avoids treating an all-capital heading as permission to remove meaningful marks.

The French Translator accent desk does not infer whether a word needs é, è or another form. Check the word and its context first.

Some French text contains œ or æ. The palette lets you insert a ligature as its own character rather than approximating it with two separate letters. The destination’s font determines its appearance, so inspect the copied passage where you plan to use it. Be especially careful with names, addresses and titles quoted from another source: a familiar-looking replacement can still be a different written form. Keep the original beside your prepared text when comparing them.

The desk preserves the characters you choose. It does not transliterate a name or decide which spelling a person uses.

A visible accented letter can be stored as one precomposed code point or as a base letter followed by a combining mark. The desk reports both the original and NFC-normalized code-point counts. If the normalization button is available, it can replace canonically equivalent sequences with their NFC form. This helps compare text copied from different editors without treating a storage difference as a new vocabulary item. Keep the prepared output visible while deciding whether to apply it.

NFC does not add omitted accents, fix spelling or remove line breaks. Code-point counts are not a count of visually separate letters.

Read a translation once for the overall message and once for concrete details. Check names, numbers, negation, the intended reader and any time reference. A fluent-looking sentence can still differ from the action you meant to request. Use the main copy control for a translation and the accent-desk copy control for the text you assembled there. Those are separate outputs. For a longer message, split it into complete short sections and keep their context together.

The main French Translator accepts 500 input characters. The accent desk also stays separate from the main box until you copy and paste the text yourself.