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# life — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: life (190 599), lifes (4). By style: everyday 2 297 · literary 134 · biblical 410 · parliamentary 13 025 · legal and administrative 9 784 · UN documents 164 953.

## vie

Used about 129 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 063 · literary ≈ 109 · biblical ≈ 342 · parliamentary ≈ 11 668 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 707 · UN documents ≈ 109 969).

- Get out of my **life**.
  Sortez de ma **vie** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3122423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3122423) [\#499602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/499602))

- I desire to forget **life**.
  Je désire oublier la **vie**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14399)

- I am the bread of **life**.
  Je suis le pain de **vie**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 6:48)

- (SK) Water is **life**.
  (SK) L'eau, c'est la **vie**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1143983)

- Default half-**life** values:
  Valeurs de demi-**vie** par défaut:
  ([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 4635755)

## More sentences

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

- **Life** in the country is not always tranquil.
  À la campagne, on ne vit pas toujours au calme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#279094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279094) [\#12464950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12464950))

- I've known him my whole **life**.
  Je le connais depuis toujours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3913821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3913821) [\#9706811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9706811))

- A still **life** by a Dutch painter hangs in his room.
  Dans sa chambre est accrochée une nature morte d'un peintre néerlandais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#6162985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6162985) [\#1206174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1206174))

## 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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