Translate Spanish to French

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

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Spanish to French translator

Spanish to French translation with the register set first

Paste Spanish 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.

How to translate Spanish to French

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

Paste or upload the Spanish

Type, paste or drop in a document. Spanish 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 vous or tu from the register selector beside the language names, or leave it on Match source tone to follow the Spanish. Select any name, brand or product term in the text and press Keep so it is not translated.

Translate, then check it

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

What changes between Spanish and French

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

Script and directionSpanish is written in Latin; French in Latin.
Word orderSpanish is subject-verb-object; French 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 markedFrench 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.
Formality in SpanishSpanish 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'.

Where translation into French goes wrong

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

Vous is polite and plural

'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.

Letter-closing formulas

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

Accents change meaning ('a' and 'à', 'ou' and 'où'); dropped accents look careless in French even though English keyboards make them awkward.

What has to be read correctly in the Spanish first

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

Dropped subjects

Spanish drops subject pronouns because the verb carries them; English needs them put back, and 'they' against 'you (plural)' is easy to confuse.

The subjunctive

The subjunctive expresses doubt, wishes and hypotheticals that English marks with modal verbs or not at all.

Long comma-joined sentences

Long Spanish sentences joined with commas are normal; splitting them is often the right English, and a literal rendering is a run-on.

Who translates Spanish to French here

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 Spanish.

Spanish to French translator FAQs

Is the Spanish to French translator free?

Yes. Translate Spanish 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.

Should I translate into French as vous or tu?

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.

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 Spanish to French because a brand name can look like an ordinary word and get 'translated' into one.

How accurate is machine translation from Spanish to French?

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 Spanish and see whether the meaning survived.

Can I translate a whole document from Spanish to French?

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 French to Spanish as well?

Yes. Use the French to Spanish 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.

After the translation

Check the Spanish before you translate it, or shift the register of the result once it is in French. One plan covers every tool.

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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.