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Forms: nationalité, nationalités. - What is his **nationality**? Quelle est sa **nationalité** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nh2 · checked, community translation · [\#286323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286323) [\#428460](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/428460)) - “Why,” replied Passepartout, a little vexed that his **nationality** should cause this question, “we Frenchmen know how to make grimaces, it is true but not any better than the Americans do.” --Ma foi, répondit Passepartout, vexé de voir sa **nationalité** provoquer cette demande, nous autres Français, nous savons faire des grimaces, c'est vrai, mais pas mieux que les Américains! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1901) - People of all **nationalities** head there each year. Des personnes de toutes **nationalités** s'y rendent chaque année. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1560147) - The debtor's **nationality** la **nationalité** du débiteur, ([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 3126481) - Right to a **nationality** Droit à une **nationalité** ([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 4736536) ## personnes Used about 631 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 102 · UN documents ≈ 529). - When the Commission draws up the list of persons referred to in paragraph 3, it shall also consider suitable persons of EFTA States’ **nationalities**.” Lorsque la Commission dresse la liste des **personnes** visées au paragraphe 3, elle prend également en considération les ressortissants des États de l'AELE qui remplissent les conditions voulues.” ([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 8524) - Aliens, like nationals, enjoy rights simply as human beings and not by virtue of their **nationality**. Désormais, étrangers et nationaux jouissent de droits qui leur sont accordés en tant que **personnes** humaines et non en tant que nationaux d ' un certain État. ([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 7024080) - When the Commission draws up the list of persons referred to in paragraph 3, it shall also consider suitable persons of EFTA States’ **nationalities**.”. Lorsque la Commission dresse la liste des **personnes** visées au paragraphe 3, elle prend également en considération les ressortissants des États de l’AELE qui remplissent les conditions voulues.”; ([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 83797) ## naissance Used about 10 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 10). - On account of the increased freedom of movement, more and more marriages between people of different **nationality** are taking place within the European Union. Au sein de l'Union européenne, la liberté croissante en matière de circulation favorise la **naissance** d'un nombre toujours plus important de couples binationaux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2031061) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical School, refugees of all **nationalities**, and Spanish, Italian, German, and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. Puis venait une multitude innombrable, agitée, étrange, les sectionnaires des Amis du Peuple, l'École de droit, l'École de médecine, les réfugiés de toutes les nations, drapeaux espagnols, italiens, allemands, polonais, drapeaux tricolores horizontaux, toutes les bannières possibles, des enfants agitant des branches vertes, des tailleurs de pierre et des charpentiers qui faisaient grève en ce moment-là même, des imprimeurs reconnaissables à leurs bonnets de papier, marchant deux par deux, trois par trois, poussant des cris, agitant presque tous des bâtons, quelques-uns des sabres, sans ordre et pourtant avec une seule âme, tantôt une cohue, tantôt une colonne. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23014) - It was brought to an end by Lenin, who failed to uphold his own principles of **nationality**. Cette indépendance a pris fin sous l’action de Lénine, qui en a oublié ses propres racines. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541899) - They want to lay the foundations of a truly European immunity, which would succeed in creating equality amongst its Members, whatever their **nationality**. On veut, dit-on, jeter les bases d'une véritable immunité européenne, aboutissant à l'égalité entre ses membres, quel que soit le statut national. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1841214) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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