Translate Your Etsy Listings from English to French
French (Français) has ~80 million native speakers in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. France is one of Etsy's fastest-growing European markets, with a buyer culture that prizes craftsmanship and provenance — 'fait main' (handmade) is a genuine selling point, not a filter checkbox. French buyers search almost exclusively in French.
Selling into France? Language is step one — see our full market guide: How to sell on Etsy in France
What makes a French listing read native
Word-for-word translation fails French in specific, visible ways. These are the details our AI gets right — and generic tools get wrong.
Gender agreement is unforgiving
Every adjective must agree with its noun: collier personnalisé but bague personnalisée. Mixed-up agreement is the single fastest way a French buyer identifies raw machine translation.
Accents are part of the keyword
Cadeau fête des mères, bijou en argent véritable — French buyers type the accents, and é/è/ê are not interchangeable. Dropping them changes words and drops your listing from accented queries.
'Fait main' beats 'handmade'
Keep the artisan vocabulary French: fait main, pièce unique, artisanat. English craft terms scattered in a French description dilute exactly the signal French Etsy buyers came for.
A real title, translated for French search
Custom Pet Portrait from Photo, Watercolor Dog Painting
Portrait d'animal personnalisé d'après photo, Aquarelle de chien fait main
'D'après photo' is the natural French phrasing buyers search — a literal 'de photo' translation misses the query entirely.
How French translation works with ListingTranslator
Connect your Etsy shop
One-click OAuth through Etsy's official API — your listings import automatically, nothing to copy or export.
Pick listings and languages
Select any listings and any of 10 languages. Our AI translates the title, description and all 13 tags like a native seller would write them.
Publish in one click
Translations are written directly to your listing's language versions on Etsy. Your original stays untouched — buyers simply see their language.
$9 = 10 listing translations to French — about $0.90 per listing.
No subscription, credits never expire. One credit price covers the title, description and all 13 tags, published straight to Etsy.
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Frequently asked questions
Does French translation help with Belgian and Canadian buyers too?
Yes. One French translation serves buyers in France, Belgium, French-speaking Switzerland and Québec — Etsy shows the same French text to all of them.
Are French Etsy tags different from English ones?
They should be. Direct tag translation misses French search behavior — we translate tags to what French buyers type (e.g. 'cadeau personnalisé' rather than a literal rendering of your English tag).
How much does it cost to translate an Etsy listing to French?
One translation (title + description + all 13 tags, published to Etsy) costs 100 credits — from $0.90 per listing on the Starter pack. No subscription, credits never expire.
What exactly gets translated to French?
The full listing: title, description and all 13 tags, written the way a native French-speaking seller would write them — then published directly to your listing's French version through Etsy's official API.
Will the translation overwrite my English listing?
No. Etsy stores translations per language alongside your original. Your English title, description and tags stay exactly as they are — buyers simply see the version in their language.
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