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# mind — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mind (56 839), minds (3 223). By style: everyday 1 257 · literary 121 · biblical 88 · parliamentary 9 702 · legal and administrative 1 138 · UN documents 47 756.

## esprit

Used about 26 656 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 367 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 2 426 · legal and administrative ≈ 405 · UN documents ≈ 23 381). Forms: esprit, esprits.

- Are you out of your **minds**?
  As-tu perdu l'**esprit** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2890954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890954) [\#1460577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1460577))

- A machine made of **mind**.
  Machine faite d'**esprit**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19265)

- and that you be renewed in the spirit of your **mind**,
  à être renouvelés dans l’**esprit** de votre intelligence,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 4:23)

- We hope they are on his **mind** if not on his lips!
  Nous espérons au moins qu'il les a à l'**esprit**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1984047)

- each member of the governing body acts with honesty, integrity and independence of **mind**;
  chaque membre de l’organe directeur agit avec honnêteté, intégrité et indépendance d’**esprit**;
  ([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 2896900)

## nous

Used about 6 680 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 617 · UN documents ≈ 4 975).

- We changed our **minds**.
  **Nous** avons changé d’avis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#3312922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3312922) [\#12235827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12235827))

- This reasoning having settled my **mind**, we got out of Rejkiavik.
  Ce raisonnement à peine achevé, **nous** avions quitté Reykjawik.
  ([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 1052)

- Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same **mind**.
  Seulement, au point où **nous** sommes parvenus, marchons d’un même pas.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 3:16)

- So I think that we must bear this in **mind**.
  C'est pourquoi je pense qu'il **nous** faut tenir compte de cela.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 400802)

- The questions foremost in our **minds** are: is globalization good for us?
  Les premières questions qui se posent à **nous** sont les suivantes : est-ce que la mondialisation est bénéfique pour nous?
  ([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 4607816)

## More sentences

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

- Would you **mind** turning down the radio?
  Cela vous dérangerait-il de baisser la radio ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#51432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51432) [\#484211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/484211))

- I don't **mind** sharing a room with her.
  Cela ne me dérange pas de partager une chambre avec elle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2738757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2738757) [\#12718650](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12718650))

- I don't **mind**.
  Cela m’est égal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#257396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/257396) [\#12877004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12877004))

## 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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