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# nation — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: nation (28 652), nations (1 827 842). By style: everyday 160 · literary 15 · biblical 576 · parliamentary 12 306 · legal and administrative 6 291 · UN documents 1 837 146.

## nations

Used about 1 316 854 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 140 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 527 · parliamentary ≈ 9 358 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 505 · UN documents ≈ 1 301 312). Forms: nation, nations.

- Jews are a **nation**.
  Les Juifs sont une **nation**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#11878396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11878396) [\#11878412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11878412))

- “May the devil stifle the procurator of the German **nation**!”
  --Que le diable étouffe le procureur de la **nation** d'Allemagne!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 176)

- In his name, the **nations** will hope.”
  Et les **nations** espéreront en son nom.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:21)

- Individual **nation** states will not and do not have a chance.
  Les États **nations** individuels n'auraient pas la moindre chance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1632665)

- Title of United **Nations** Regulation
  Titre du règlement des **Nations** Unies
  ([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 253276)

## More sentences

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

- Every **nation** has its own myths.
  Tous les pays ont leurs légendes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zmoo · checked, community translation · [\#37454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37454) [\#12928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12928))

- To get the **nation**'s economy out of the red, more foreign aid had to be pumped in.
  Afin de sortir du rouge l'économie du pays, davantage d'aide étrangère dut être injectée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#47901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47901) [\#1919891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1919891))

- This opened up to the eyes of the white **nation** the possibility of the black man governing the white man in these United States of America.
  Cela révéla à l'Amérique blanche la possibilité que l'homme noir gouverne l'homme blanc au sein de ces États-Unis d'Amérique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13848919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13848919) [\#13848938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13848938))

## 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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