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# body — English to French

How English *body* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: bodies (256 973), body (154 366). By style: everyday 349 · literary 53 · biblical 270 · parliamentary 9 710 · legal and administrative 46 386 · UN documents 354 571.

## organe

Used about 299 645 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 4 855 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 239 · UN documents ≈ 258 541). Forms: organe, organes, organisme, organismes.

- Our **bodies** are made of cells.
  Nos **organismes** sont constitués de cellules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6319466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6319466) [\#12262651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12262651))

- We are the middle-men, we are the democratically elected **body**.
  Nous sommes les médiateurs, nous sommes l'**organe** légitimé démocratiquement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1825573)

- Other Breeding Approved **bodies**
  Autre Élevage **Organismes** agréés
  ([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 4494294)

- **Body** and session/meeting
  **Organe** et session/réunion
  ([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 19040438)

- Vaccines mimic an infection, which causes the **body**'s immune system to mount a defense.
  Les vaccins imitent une infection, ce qui pousse le système immunitaire de l'**organisme** à se défendre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mccarras and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8992172](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8992172) [\#9117982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9117982))

## corps

Used about 28 845 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 282 · literary ≈ 28 · biblical ≈ 141 · parliamentary ≈ 607 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 933 · UN documents ≈ 25 854).

- He has a **body** to die for.
  Il a un **corps** de rêve.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2020756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2020756) [\#2022236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2022236))

- The form of her **body** was surprisingly beautiful.
  La forme de son **corps** était surprenante de beauté.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5276)

- For the **body** is not one member, but many.
  Ainsi le **corps** n’est pas un seul membre, mais il est formé de plusieurs membres.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 12:14)

- Who has the final say over the human **body**?
  Qui a son mot à dire sur le **corps** humain ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 266500)

- The main **body** of the headlamp shall bear the only valid approval number, for instance:
  Le **corps** principal du projecteur doit porter le seul numéro d’homologation valable, par exemple:
  ([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 5457497)

## More sentences

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

- The police suspected there was a connection between the abandoned car and the dead **body** found three miles away.
  Les policiers soupçonnaient qu'il existait un lien entre la voiture abandonnée et le cadavre trouvé trois kilomètres plus loin.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#3991519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991519) [\#3991634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991634))

- Most swimmers shave their **body** hair.
  La plupart des nageurs rasent leurs poils.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5368688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5368688) [\#11401657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11401657))

- An army was divided into the vanguard, the rearguard and the main **body**.
  Une armée est composée d'une avant-garde, d'une arrière garde et du gros de l'armée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#722567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/722567) [\#722610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/722610))

## 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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