Translate French to Spanish

Free French to Spanish translator with the register set first — tú or usted — and names kept exactly as you wrote them.

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French to Spanish translator

French to Spanish translation with the register set first

Paste French and get Spanish back with the register already decided: tú for people you know, usted for everyone else. Most translators make that choice for you and do not mention it. This one asks first, because in Spanish it changes the grammar of every sentence, and a translation that gets it wrong is fluent and still wrong.

How to translate French to Spanish

Three steps. The second is the one most translators skip.

Paste or upload the French

Type, paste or drop in a document. French is already selected as the source on this page; if the text turns out to be something else, the detector says so above the editor and you can change it.

Set the register and mark the names to keep

Pick usted or tú from the register selector beside the language names, or leave it on Match source tone to follow the French. Select any name, brand or product term in the text and press Keep so it is not translated.

Translate, then check it

Read the Spanish if you can. If you cannot, back-translate it: run the result through Spanish to French and compare the meaning, sentence by sentence, with what you started from.

What changes between French and Spanish

The differences that decide whether a translation reads as written by a person.

Script and directionFrench is written in Latin; Spanish in Latin.
Word orderFrench is subject-verb-object; Spanish is subject-verb-object. The orders match, which removes one whole class of error, but idiom and agreement still have to be handled.
How politeness is markedSpanish separates 'tú' (familiar) from 'usted' (polite), and the verb changes with it. Spain uses 'vosotros' for a familiar group; Latin America uses 'ustedes' for any group. Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Central America use 'vos' in place of 'tú'.
Formality in FrenchFrench uses 'tu' with friends, family and children and 'vous' with everyone else and with any group. Written French to a stranger is 'vous' by default, and moving to 'tu' is a decision people make explicitly.

Where translation into Spanish goes wrong

Three things Spanish readers notice at once, and a machine has to be told about.

Tú or usted changes every verb

'Tú' and 'usted' change the verb ending on every sentence, so the register has to be chosen before translating, not patched afterwards.

Regional vocabulary

Vocabulary splits by region: 'coche', 'carro' and 'auto' are all 'car'; 'ordenador' is Spain's word for 'computadora'.

Gender agreement

Every noun has a gender and adjectives agree with it; a machine that loses track mid-paragraph produces sentences a native reader stumbles on.

What has to be read correctly in the French first

Errors that start on the source side, before a single Spanish word is chosen.

One past tense for two

French uses the same tense for what English splits into simple past and present perfect, so tense choice in English is a judgement call.

Two ways to negate

Negation wraps the verb ('ne… pas') and informal French drops the 'ne'; both are correct and a translator has to recognise both.

Canadian French differs

Canadian French differs in vocabulary and idiom from France; 'courriel' against 'e-mail' is a small example of a wide gap.

Who translates French to Spanish here

Customer emails and support replies for Spanish-speaking clients.

Spanish coursework and exam practice.

Messages to family, landlords and local services in Spain or Latin America.

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French to Spanish translator FAQs

Is the French to Spanish translator free?

Yes. Translate French to Spanish without an account, within the per-run word allowance shown beside the editor. Signing in raises it, and Pro removes the guest limits and the ads. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.

Should I translate into Spanish as usted or tú?

Spanish separates 'tú' (familiar) from 'usted' (polite), and the verb changes with it. Spain uses 'vosotros' for a familiar group; Latin America uses 'ustedes' for any group. Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Central America use 'vos' in place of 'tú'. Use tú for friends, family and people who have used it with you; use usted for customers, officials, employers and anyone you have not met. The register selector sets this before the translation is made, so the grammar comes out right the first time rather than being patched afterwards.

Will it translate names, brands and product terms?

Not unless you want it to. Select a name or a term in the editor and press Keep, and it is passed through exactly as written. This matters for French to Spanish because a brand name can look like an ordinary word and get 'translated' into one.

How accurate is machine translation from French to Spanish?

Good enough to understand a document, answer an email or draft a reply, and it improves when you set the register and mark the names as kept first. It is not a substitute for a human translator on a contract, a medical document or anything with legal weight. The reliable way to check a translation you cannot read is to back-translate it: paste the Spanish result into a new run set to French and see whether the meaning survived.

Can I translate a whole document from French to Spanish?

Yes. Drop in a .docx, .pdf or .txt file, or paste the text; the output keeps the paragraph structure and can be copied, edited in place or exported.

Can I translate Spanish to French as well?

Yes. Use the Spanish to French translator, or press the swap button between the two language names on this page. Either way the register and the kept terms come with you.

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Each pair opens the translator with both languages already set. The register and the Keep button work the same on every one.