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# moral — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: moral (21 426), morals (3 566). By style: everyday 44 · literary 9 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 2 145 · legal and administrative 251 · UN documents 22 541.

## moral

Used about 18 242 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 542 · legal and administrative ≈ 219 · UN documents ≈ 16 436). Forms: moral, morale, moralité.

- He lacks **moral** sense.
  Il manque de sens **moral**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi and Snout · checked, community translation · [\#284884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/284884) [\#525381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/525381))

- The revolutionary sense is a **moral** sense.
  Le sens révolutionnaire est un sens **moral**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21615)

- It is about **morals** and ethics.
  Il s'agit de **morale** et d'étique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1738522)

- necessary to protect public **morals**;
  nécessaires à la protection de la **moralité** publique;
  ([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 178280)

- 1. Minors in **moral** danger
  1. Mineurs en danger **moral**
  ([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 315970)

## More sentences

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

- I have **moral** standards.
  J'ai des principes moraux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2700754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2700754) [\#5549499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5549499))

- She's a woman of low **moral** character.
  C'est une femme aux mœurs légères.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8401065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8401065) [\#11840221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11840221))

- A **moral** person doesn't lie, cheat, or steal.
  Une personne vertueuse ne ment, ne triche et ne vole pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#280454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280454) [\#129622](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129622))

## 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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