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# mental — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mental (40 184). By style: everyday 34 · literary 3 · parliamentary 848 · legal and administrative 524 · UN documents 38 775.

## mentale

Used about 37 478 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 654 · legal and administrative ≈ 448 · UN documents ≈ 36 352). Forms: mental, mentale, mentales, mentaux.

- Claude's **mental** age is ten.
  Claude a dix ans d’âge **mental**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ooneykcall and pkill · checked, community translation · [\#10495570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10495570) [\#10495568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10495568))

- The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in **mental** prayer, and resumed:—
  La prieure se tut, remua un moment les lèvres, comme pour une oraison **mentale**, et reprit:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11477)

- People can and do achieve, despite severe physical and **mental** disabilities.
  Les gens peuvent réussir et réussissent malgré des handicaps physiques et **mentaux** sévères.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 519592)

- Detrimental to **mental** health
  nocives pour la santé **mentale**
  ([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 233185)

- Article 12 - The right to physical and **mental** health
  Article 12 − Droit à la santé physique et **mentale**
  ([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 22668319)

## physiques

Used about 863 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 53 · UN documents ≈ 808). Forms: physique, physiques.

- The emigrants have endured physical and **mental** pain.
  Les émigrants ont subi des souffrances **physiques** et psychiques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and fhartmann · checked, community translation · [\#28165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28165) [\#426966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/426966))

- We cannot be passive onlookers and fail these masses of people who are being subjected to **mental** and physical cruelty.
  Nous ne pouvons pas être les spectateurs passifs des violences psychiques et **physiques** subies par de nombreuses personnes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 144533)

- 79. Code of Criminal Procedure, Paragraph 3 of Article 321 says that the statement given under physical or **mental** duress shall have no value of evidence.
  79. En vertu de l &apos; article 321, paragraphe 3, du Code de procédure pénale, les dépositions obtenues sous la contrainte **physique** ou morale sont nulles et non avenues.
  ([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 27653773)

- Orienteering requires physical fitness as well as a high level of **mental** performance.
  La course d'orientation exige une bonne condition **physique** ainsi qu'un haut degré de réflexion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zumley and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6838038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6838038) [\#6846793](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6846793))

- I feel it is extremely important to include the **mental** consequences of these diseases as well as the physical ones.
  Je pense qu'il est extrêmement important de tenir compte non seulement des séquelles **physiques** de ces maladies, mais aussi de leurs effets psychiques.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1975955)

## More sentences

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

- There are two kinds of work in the world--head work and hand work; **mental** and manual.
  Il y a deux sortes de travail dans le monde : celui de la tête et celui des mains ; intellectuel et manuel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_Benedict\_1921 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#847234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847234) [\#1035860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035860))

- Preoccupation with sex is the basis of all **mental** activity.
  La préoccupation sexuelle est à la base de toute l'activité de l'esprit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CardinalRed and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#5715972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5715972) [\#1537947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1537947))

- Tom is obviously a **mental** case.
  Tom est visiblement un cas social.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#3723368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3723368) [\#11960556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11960556))

## 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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