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# friendly — English to French

How English *friendly* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: friendlies (1), friendly (24 790). By style: everyday 160 · literary 5 · parliamentary 2 443 · legal and administrative 1 013 · UN documents 21 170.

## respectueux

Used about 2 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 611 · legal and administrative ≈ 317 · UN documents ≈ 1 728). Forms: respectueuses, respectueux.

- I only use sprays that are **friendly** to the environment.
  Je n'utilise que des sprays **respectueux** de l'environnement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2915000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2915000) [\#10308996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10308996))

- The European Union has to use more environmentally-**friendly** means of transport.
  L'Union européenne doit utiliser des moyens de transport plus **respectueux** de l'environnement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 957208)

- transport should be environmentally **friendly**:
  le transport devrait être **respectueux** de l'environnement:
  ([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 1229295)

- All procedures envisaged should be child-sensitive and child-**friendly**.
  Toutes les procédures envisagées devraient être **respectueuses** de la sensibilité des enfants et adaptées aux enfants.
  ([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 22079381)

- How environmentally **friendly** are electric cars?
  Dans quelle mesure les voitures électriques sont-elles **respectueuses** de l'environnement ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5846331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5846331) [\#13225686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13225686))

## More sentences

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

- Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye is underlined for emphasis; uncorseted, her **friendly** bust gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
  Grishkin est belle : son œil russe est souligné pour l'accentuer ; décorsetée, sa poitrine accueillante promet une félicité pneumatique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1773010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1773010) [\#1773326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1773326))

- I'm going to stop trying to be **friendly** with you.
  Je vais arrêter d'essayer d'être amical à ton égard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1970219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970219) [\#1970372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970372))

- Tom is **friendly** to me.
  Tom est amical envers moi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#5589813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5589813) [\#10838917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10838917))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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