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# marriage — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: marriage (42 734), marriages (9 751). By style: everyday 171 · literary 14 · biblical 14 · parliamentary 632 · legal and administrative 364 · UN documents 51 290.

## mariage

Used about 45 913 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 155 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 560 · legal and administrative ≈ 305 · UN documents ≈ 44 879). Forms: mariage, mariages.

- This is my second **marriage**.
  C'est mon second **mariage**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#10287880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10287880) [\#10289070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10289070))

- “It was fitting that I should be absent from your **marriage**.
  --Il convenait que je fusse absent de votre **mariage**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30227)

- Let **marriage** be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  Que le **mariage** soit honoré de tous, et le lit conjugal exempt de souillure, car Dieu jugera les impudiques et les adultères.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 13:4)

- On what should this **marriage** be based?
  Sur quoi devrait porter ce **mariage**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 702534)

- are not **marriages**, and
  ne sont pas des **mariages**, et
  ([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 1948675)

## More sentences

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

- Once they had consummated their **marriage**, she didn't dare look him in the eye anymore.
  Après avoir consommé leur union, elle n'a plus osé croiser son regard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13362743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362743) [\#13362698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362698))

- Sami and Layla decided to see a **marriage** counselor.
  Sami et Layla ont décidé de voir un conseiller conjugal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slampisko and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#9455554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9455554) [\#6326261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6326261))

- Because of the change in Canadian **marriage** laws, many American homosexuals came to Canada to get married.
  À cause du changement dans les lois matrimoniales canadiennes, plusieurs homosexuels américains sont allés se marier au Canada.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#546475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/546475) [\#548959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/548959))

## 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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