French to Russian Translator
Translate French to Russian for free, with the context a word-for-word tool drops.
What changes when you translate French to Russian
Translating French into Russian changes more than the words. Russian declines nouns and adjectives across six cases, has no articles, and pairs most verbs into perfective and imperfective aspects. Russian has no articles and free word order driven by emphasis, so translations need case endings and aspect choices that plain word-for-word substitution gets wrong. A word-for-word tool gets the vocabulary right and these things wrong, which is why the translator above reads the whole sentence before it writes anything.
French and Russian: key differences
French and Russian diverge on the writing system, word order, grammatical gender, subject pronouns, and articles. Each row below is a place where swapping words one for one produces the wrong Russian sentence.
| Feature | French | Russian |
|---|---|---|
| Writing system | the Latin alphabet | the Cyrillic alphabet |
| Typical word order | subject–verb–object | subject–verb–object, with flexible order |
| Grammatical gender | two genders (masculine, feminine) | three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) |
| Subject pronouns | required | dropped when context is clear |
| Articles | definite and indefinite, marked for gender and number | no articles |
Common French to Russian phrases
Everyday expressions translated from French to Russian:
| French (Français) | Russian (Русский) |
|---|---|
| Bonjour | Здравствуйте (zdravstvuyte) |
| Bonne nuit | Спокойной ночи (spokoynoy nochi) |
| Merci | Спасибо (spasibo) |
| S'il vous plaît | Пожалуйста (pozhaluysta) |
| Comment allez-vous ? | Как дела? (kak dela?) |
| Comment vous appelez-vous ? | Как вас зовут? (kak vas zovut?) |
| Je t'aime | Я тебя люблю (ya tebya lyublyu) |
| Excusez-moi | Извините (izvinite) |
| Où sont les toilettes ? | Где туалет? (gde tualet?) |
| Au revoir | До свидания (do svidaniya) |
About the Russian language
Russian (Русский) is spoken by about 255 million people across Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It belongs to the Slavic (Indo-European) language family and is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
- Native name
- Русский
- Speakers
- 255 million
- Language family
- Slavic (Indo-European)
- Writing system
- the Cyrillic alphabet
- Word order
- subject–verb–object, with flexible order
French to Russian translation tips
- French is written in the Latin alphabet, and Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, so the translator converts between writing systems for you.
French to Russian translation FAQ
How accurate is AI French to Russian translation?
The translator uses a modern AI language model that understands context, so French to Russian results read more naturally than word-for-word tools. For legal, medical, or other high-stakes text, have a fluent speaker review the output.
How do you say hello in Russian?
Hello in Russian is Здравствуйте (zdravstvuyte). The common-phrases table on this page lists more everyday Russian expressions, such as Спасибо (spasibo) (thank you) and До свидания (do svidaniya) (goodbye).