French

This site includes French resources on various aspects

Grammar

Dictionaries

  • Dictionary of French Speakers. A monolingual collaborative dictionary providing definitions.
  • Dictionnaire Argot. An online French Slang Dictionary.
  • Dictionnaire de L’Académie Française. This monolingual French dictionary has been a reference for the French language since the 17th century.
  • Dictionnaire Anglais-Français des Industries Alimentaires et de la Gastronomie (Food and Agrifood English-French Dictionary). It contains around 3,600 bilingual entries useful for food translation.
  • Government of France’s Dictionary of Acronyms. A monolingual dictionary with administrative abbreviations and acronyms. Useful for institutional and socioeconomic translation.
  • Larousse Dictionaries. Monolingual, bilingual, translator, verbs conjugator, etc.
  • Linguee. Online French-English translator and dictionary. It is also available in numerous other languages.
  • PONS dictionary and translator (English-French). It offers over 500,000 headwords, translations, and phrases from English into French and from French into English.
  • Collins dictionary is a free English-French and vice versa translation service offered by the Collins dictionary. Also available in over 30 languages.
  • SYSTRAN is a free translation tool built for plugging in and translating entire texts with the most accuracy possible of a free translator. SYSTRAN relies on accurate linguistics and specialized rich dictionaries built into the software to deliver the best French translation quality as well as translation into other languages.

Corpus

  • Sketch Engine is designed for linguists, lexicologists, lexicographers, researchers, translators, terminologists, teachers, and students working with French to identify and analyze collocations, synonyms, antonyms, and examples of use in context, keywords, or terms. Frequency word lists of French single-word or multi-word expressions of various types can be generated. Even users without any technical knowledge can create their own French corpus using the Sketch Engine’s intuitive built-in tool.

Terminological Database

  • Le grand dictionnaire terminologique (GDT). It contains over 3 million French and English technical terms from all economic, technological, and scientific fields.
  • Lexiques et vocabulaires. Developed by the Office québécois de la langue française in collaboration with many other organizations, the site offers a wide range of vocabulary classified by topics, such as food, healthcare, environment, economy, etc.

Medical Translation

Legal Translation