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# birth — English to French

How English *birth* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [birth in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/birth/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: birth (50 506), births (13 717). By style: everyday 121 · literary 11 · biblical 64 · parliamentary 1 203 · legal and administrative 9 718 · UN documents 53 106.

## naissance

Used about 43 474 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 84 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 684 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 175 · UN documents ≈ 36 510). Forms: naissance, naissances.

- You gave **birth** to me.
  Vous m’avez donné **naissance**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11968647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11968647) [\#11968668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11968668))

- I have been told that by **birth** he is the bastard of an archdeacon and a devil.
  On m'a dit qu'il était bâtard d'un archidiacre et diable de **naissance**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3742)

- As he passed by, he saw a man blind from **birth**.
  Jésus vit, en passant, un homme aveugle de **naissance**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 9:1)

- They knew the price that had been paid for its **birth**.
  Ils connaissaient le prix qui avait été payé pour sa **naissance**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 527442)

- Place of **birth**: Kenya
  Lieu de **naissance**: Kenya
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4605685)

## taux

Used about 4 979 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 979).

- Overall fertility rate or total **births** coefficient
  **Taux** global de fécondité ou taux global de natalité
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18686454)

- Infant mortality rate. This decreased from 77 per 1,000 live **births** in 2003 to 52 per 1,000 live **births** in 2009.
  **Taux** de mortalité infantile: Le taux de mortalité infantile a diminué, passant de 77 %. en 2003 à 52 %. en 2009.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 28305779)

- The overall **birth** rate declined from 12.7 in 1990 to 9.6 in 1995 and 8.7 in 1997 (per 1,000 of the population).
  Le **taux** syncrétique de natalité qui était de 127 en 1990 est tombé à 9,6 en 1995 et 8,7 en 1997 (pour 1 000 habitants).
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 6080204)

- The region continues to have high maternal deaths, morbidities and adolescent **birth** rates.
  La mortalité maternelle, la morbidité et la natalité parmi les adolescentes continuent d &apos; enregistrer des **taux** élevés dans la région.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29911581)

- The **birth** rate has continued on a downward trend to record 1.3, 1.17, 1.19, and 1.16 in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 respectively.
  Le **taux** de natalité a poursuivi sa tendance à la baisse : 1,3 en 2001; 1,17 en 2002; 1,19 en 2003; et 1,16 en 2004.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 16959609)

## lieu

Used about 566 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 553).

- Is this our idea of transparency, or is this **birth** supposed to take place in secret?
  Cela correspond-t-il à nos prétentions à la transparence ou l'accouchement devrait-il avoir **lieu** en secret?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1923846)

- 129. **Births** generally take place in maternity hospitals.
  129. En général, les accouchements ont **lieu** dans les maternités.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 3789309)

## natalité

Used about 223 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 215).

- France's **birth** rate is declining.
  Le taux de **natalité** en France est en baisse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#7010500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7010500) [\#8730510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8730510))

- First of all, **birth** rate.
  Commençons par évoquer le taux de **natalité**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1039777)

- The **birth** rate and death rate were nearly equal.
  Les taux de **natalité** et de mortalité étaient pratiquement égaux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#266822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266822) [\#2118638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2118638))

- Under these conditions the dwindling **birth** rate should come as no surprise.
  Dans ces conditions, la diminution du taux de **natalité** ne devrait pas nous surprendre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 943846)

- The new **birth** policy is aimed at achieving zero population growth.
  La nouvelle politique de **natalité** a pour but d'atteindre un taux de croissance démographique nul.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#269185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/269185) [\#5654436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5654436))

## date

Used about 101 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 101).

- The count does not include foetal deaths, and is irrespective of whether all live **births** were in wedlock or out-of-wedlock, or within current or previous legal unions, and regardless of whether the live-born children are alive or dead at the reference date or whether or not they are living with the mother.
  Le compte n’inclut pas les morts fœtales et est établi que tous les enfants nés vivants soient nés dans le mariage ou hors mariage, qu’ils soient nés dans le cadre d’unions actuelles ou passées, que les enfants nés vivants soient vivants ou morts à la **date** de référence et qu’ils vivent ou non avec la mère.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3261143)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- She recently gave **birth**.
  Elle a récemment accouché.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and atitarev · checked, community translation · [\#10465128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10465128) [\#13256594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13256594))

- His wife gave **birth** to twins.
  Sa femme a eu des jumeaux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and jeo · checked, community translation · [\#3461485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3461485) [\#1049808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1049808))

- Do you use any method of **birth** control?
  Est-ce que tu utilises une quelconque forme de contraception ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9982124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9982124) [\#9982733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9982733))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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