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# citizenship — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: citizenship (28 023), citizenships (93). By style: everyday 15 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 1 765 · legal and administrative 937 · UN documents 25 397.

## citoyenneté

Used about 12 770 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 572 · legal and administrative ≈ 608 · UN documents ≈ 10 582). Forms: citoyen, citoyenneté.

- How can I apply for **citizenship**?
  Comment puis-je demander la **citoyenneté** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#11554666](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11554666) [\#11561415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11561415))

- The commanding officer answered, “I bought my **citizenship** for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
  Le tribun reprit: C’est avec beaucoup d’argent que j’ai acquis ce droit de **citoyen**. Et moi, dit Paul, je l’ai par ma naissance.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 22:28)

- It is a problem of European **citizenship**.
  C'est un problème de **citoyenneté** européenne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1328354)

- **Citizenship** Act, R.S.C.
  Loi sur la **citoyenneté**, L.R.C.
  ([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 264351)

- the right of each person to **citizenship**;
  a) Le droit de toute personne à la **citoyenneté**;
  ([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 11832971)

## nationalité

Used about 11 528 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 96 · legal and administrative ≈ 312 · UN documents ≈ 11 111). Forms: nationalité, nationalités.

- I have dual **citizenship**.
  J'ai la double **nationalité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4499781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499781) [\#10783289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10783289))

- In certain countries, including Sweden, there is at present no national ID card indicating **citizenship**.
  Dans certains pays, comme la Suède, il n'y a actuellement pas de carte d'identité nationale qui précise la **nationalité**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 172572)

- By **citizenship** and sex
  Par **nationalité** et par sexe
  ([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 2714613)

- non-EU TOTAL all **citizenships**
  Total (toutes **nationalités** confondues)
  ([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 26273236)

- He has Ukrainian **citizenship**.
  Il a la **nationalité** ukrainienne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4707915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4707915) [\#8547943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8547943))

## More sentences

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

- For our **citizenship** is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  Mais notre cité à nous est dans les cieux, d’où nous attendons aussi comme Sauveur le Seigneur Jésus-Christ,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 3:20)

- The business sector is already formulating initiatives to give concrete content to the chapter on 'corporate **citizenship**'.
  Le secteur des entreprises formule déjà des initiatives afin de concrétiser le chapitre relatif à la "conscience sociale des entreprises".
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 492939)

- These are complementary adjuncts to our national **citizenships** and I certainly have no difficulty whatsoever with that.
  Il s'agit d'une complémentarité à nos citoyennetés nationales et je n'ai assurément aucun problème avec cela.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1246828)

## 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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