Free Portuguese (Brazilian) to French translator with the register set first — tu or vous — and names kept exactly as you wrote them.
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Type, paste or upload a document. The source language is detected automatically. Select a name or term and tap Keep to leave it untranslated.
Paste Portuguese (Brazilian) and get French back with the register already decided: tu for people you know, vous for everyone else. Most translators make that choice for you and do not mention it. This one asks first, because in French it changes the grammar of every sentence, and a translation that gets it wrong is fluent and still wrong.
Three steps. The second is the one most translators skip.
Type, paste or drop in a document. Portuguese (Brazilian) 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.
Pick vous or tu from the register selector beside the language names, or leave it on Match source tone to follow the Portuguese (Brazilian). Select any name, brand or product term in the text and press Keep so it is not translated.
Read the French if you can. If you cannot, back-translate it: run the result through French to Portuguese (Brazilian) and compare the meaning, sentence by sentence, with what you started from.
The differences that decide whether a translation reads as written by a person.
Three things French readers notice at once, and a machine has to be told about.
'Vous' is both polite-singular and plural, so a translation that has to address one reader politely and several readers uses the same word, and the verb agreement must match.
French written correspondence has fixed closing formulas ('Je vous prie d'agréer…') that have no English equivalent and are expected in formal letters.
Accents change meaning ('a' and 'à', 'ou' and 'où'); dropped accents look careless in French even though English keyboards make them awkward.
Errors that start on the source side, before a single French word is chosen.
Portuguese drops subject pronouns; the verb ending identifies the subject and English has to restore it.
The personal infinitive and future subjunctive have no English forms; a literal translation of 'se você quiser' needs reshaping.
Diminutives ('cafezinho', 'rapidinho') carry warmth or softening that English usually has to express with extra words.
Formal letters and emails to French institutions and employers.
French coursework and reading.
Conversations with French-speaking colleagues in Europe, Canada and West Africa.
Going the other way? Translate French to Portuguese (Brazilian).
Yes. Translate Portuguese (Brazilian) to French 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.
French 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. Use tu for friends, family and people who have used it with you; use vous 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.
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 Portuguese (Brazilian) to French because a brand name can look like an ordinary word and get 'translated' into one.
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 French result into a new run set to Portuguese (Brazilian) and see whether the meaning survived.
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.
Yes. Use the French to Portuguese (Brazilian) 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.
Check the Portuguese (Brazilian) before you translate it, or shift the register of the result once it is in French. One plan covers every tool.
Each pair opens the translator with both languages already set. The register and the Keep button work the same on every one.
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