French Sample Sentences

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French Sample Sentences

Postby asw » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:08 pm

I use Spanish Dict regularly to look up example sentences by word in Spanish, but I can't find any similarly reliable resource for French. I have tried bab.la and I have several dictionary apps installed on my phone but I often have to try two or three at a time for a give word to find a good sentence. Any suggestions?
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Re: French Sample Sentences

Postby Kraut » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:33 pm

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Re: French Sample Sentences

Postby AnthonyLauder » Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:41 pm

How about Linguee? You can search words in one language, and it finds loads of sentences, plus a translation into another language. For example, here is the French/English pair for the word Baguette

https://www.linguee.com/english-french/ ... y=baguette
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Re: French Sample Sentences

Postby Brun Ugle » Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:22 am

The app ReversoContext allows you to look up example sentences for words and phrases for a number of languages including French.
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Re: French Sample Sentences

Postby mentecuerpo » Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:32 am

I use the ReversoContex as well, it helps a lot to get the right meaning, especially when I am editing a rough AI translation using Microsoft Word translation tool.

When the translation does not make sense, I start fine tuning by going to the Reverso Contex and find the option that best suits the phrase I am working on.

An online artificial intelligence translation is the first step, then the Reverso Contex will help me polish it.
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Re: French Sample Sentences

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