Does anyone know of a good website where u can translate english words to french?

Question

That also, tells you the meaning of french words in slang, because most translation website only tell you the old english words, and not the slang.

Answer 1

Google Language Tools, AltaVista's Babel Fish, FreeTranslation.com and Dictionary.com are all known as 'online translators' or 'machine translators.' They are NOT to be trusted.

Do this test. Go to each of them (or to any of a dozen other such Websites) and ask for the translation of "chien de fusil" in English.

FYI, "chien de fusil" is the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled; it is referred to in English as the ""hammer" or "c-o-c-k" (Yahoo filters this word, hence the hyphens).

Instead of the correct English term, online machine translators will return "dog of gun," "dog of rifle," or "rifle dog." Make sense to you? So what makes you think the answer you get when you ask for the French translation of an English word will make any more sense?

Look for online English-French dictionaries instead. You can easily access a few of them through LEXILOGOS (follow the links below, under Sources), but there are probably others. Most of them include various possible translations, as well as some examples that will help you choose the right one.

Bonne recherche!

EDIT:
Emery, wordreference is not a translator. It is one of the dictionaries you can access via LEXILOGOS. It does not "translate," it lists already accepted translations of a given word, taking into account various meanings and usages.

Answer 2

I use wordreference.com

I find it is the best site to translate words. It does not, however, translate sentences, but will translate some expressions.

Answer 3

Perhaps you could try babelfish on Altavista

Answer 4

try the google language tool. just go to www.google.com and click on "language tools"

Answer 5

go to dictionary.reference.com

Answer 6

www.freetranslation.com