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# live — English to French

How English *live* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: live (63 637), lives (46 840). By style: everyday 2 824 · literary 52 · biblical 444 · parliamentary 12 451 · legal and administrative 8 216 · UN documents 86 490.

## vie

Used about 30 296 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 60 · parliamentary ≈ 3 761 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 054 · UN documents ≈ 24 325).

- Long **live** the Persian language!
  Longue **vie** au persan !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mahdiye and AnastasijaN · checked, community translation · [\#513906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/513906) [\#5897174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5897174))

- You save people’s **lives**, and you conceal it from them!
  Vous sauvez la **vie** aux gens, et vous le leur cachez!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31964)

- For to me to **live** is Christ, and to die is gain.
  car Christ est ma **vie**, et la mort m’est un gain.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 1:21)

- Their **lives** are in danger.
  Leur **vie** est en danger.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1960102)

- Safety of **Lives** at Sea IMO Convention
  Convention de l’OMI sur la sauvegarde de la **vie** humaine en mer
  ([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 2089490)

## personnes

Used about 6 573 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 167 · UN documents ≈ 5 406).

- In the European Union, many people **live** many **lives**.
  Au sein de l'Union européenne, beaucoup de **personnes** vivent plusieurs vies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 879544)

- Surprise all the millions of people who **live** in abject poverty.
  Surprenez les millions de **personnes** qui vivent dans la pauvreté absolue.
  ([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 6967182)

- 79 million people in the EU still **live** below the poverty line.
  L'Europe compte encore 79 millions de **personnes** vivant sous le seuil de pauvreté.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1470416)

- 314. Roma **live** in private homes (92 per cent of respondents).
  314. Les Tsiganes vivent dans des maisons particulières (92% des **personnes** interrogées).
  ([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 27768425)

- This primarily hits the area around airports and those who **live** there.
  Les environs des aéroports et les **personnes** qui y vivent sont les premiers touchés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 975803)

## vivre

Used about 6 540 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 441 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 1 556 · UN documents ≈ 4 505).

- I'm going to **live** alone.
  Je vais **vivre** seul.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by erixa83 and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7342512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7342512) [\#8185533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8185533))

- Then I said: ‘I cannot **live** anywhere else than here.’
  Alors j'ai dit: Je ne puis pas **vivre** ailleurs que là.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30313)

- “You shall not allow a sorceress to **live**.
  Tu ne laisseras point **vivre** la magicienne.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 22:18)

- We cannot decide whether or not they want to **live** in the USA.
  Nous ne pouvons pas décider de leur volonté ou non de **vivre** aux États-Unis.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1207018)

- But is this the only way for us to **live**?
  Mais est-ce bien la seule façon de **vivre**?
  ([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 8749673)

## vit

Used about 6 415 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 735 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 519 · legal and administrative ≈ 599 · UN documents ≈ 4 505).

- Tom **lives** like a king.
  Tom **vit** comme un roi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#2821619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2821619) [\#8731591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8731591))

- "He **lives**! he **lives**!" he cried.
  «Il **vit**! il vit! s'écria-t-il.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2478)

- But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she **lives**.
  Mais celle qui **vit** dans les plaisirs est morte, quoique vivante.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:6)

- Almost one fifth of children **live** in poverty.
  Près d'un enfant sur cinq **vit** dans la pauvreté.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1018221)

- Other information: **lives** in the United Kingdom.’
  Renseignement complémentaire: **vit** au Royaume-Uni.»
  ([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 735276)

## More sentences

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

- Do you **live** with flatmates?
  T'habites avec des colocs ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13992333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13992333) [\#13992340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13992340))

- Do you **live** with roommates?
  Est-ce que tu es en colocation ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13992332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13992332) [\#13992355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13992355))

- I **live** in Boston.
  Je vis à Boston.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#2377660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2377660) [\#2745120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2745120))

## 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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