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# natural — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: natural (143 175), naturals (12). By style: everyday 214 · literary 30 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 6 548 · legal and administrative 24 154 · UN documents 112 230.

## naturel

Used about 93 568 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 183 · literary ≈ 25 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 5 730 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 467 · UN documents ≈ 77 158). Forms: naturel, naturelle, naturelles, naturels.

- That's perfectly **natural**.
  C'est tout à fait **naturel**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Maxence · checked, community translation · [\#2251191](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251191) [\#7692376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7692376))

- "No; it is quite **natural**."
  —Non: c'est **naturel**.
  ([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 2681)

- without understanding, covenant breakers, without **natural** affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
  de loyauté, d’affection **naturelle**, de miséricorde.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 1:31)

- The United States are our **natural** allies.
  Les États-Unis sont nos alliés **naturels**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1427385)

- The products are **natural** and fresh
  Produits **naturels** et frais
  ([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 696820)

## personnes

Used about 11 982 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 136 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 831 · UN documents ≈ 7 014).

- This means that a civil or administrative case must be brought or otherwise the criminal liability of the **natural** person must be invoked.
  On recourt alors à une procédure civile et/ou administrative, et il faut ensuite invoquer la responsabilité pénale des **personnes** physiques impliquées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1644539)

- For **natural** persons, the financial viability will be assessed as follows:
  Pour les **personnes** physiques, la viabilité financière sera évaluée comme suit:
  ([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 2550813)

- As with other criminal sanctions, sanctions apply to **natural** persons.
  À l &apos; image des autres sanctions pénales, ces sanctions s &apos; appliquent à des **personnes** physiques.
  ([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 30287766)

- The following entries shall be added under the heading ‘**Natural** persons’:
  Les mentions suivantes sont ajoutées sous la rubrique «**Personnes** physiques»:
  ([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 2135551)

- The names of the 13 **natural** persons listed in annex I to resolution 1803 (2008) have been added to annex 3 to the ordinance.
  Ont été inscrits dans l &apos; annexe 3 de l &apos; ordonnance les noms des 13 **personnes** physiques figurant dans l &apos; annexe I de la résolution 1803 (2008).
  ([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 19560636)

## More sentences

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

- I'm a **natural** blonde.
  Je suis une vraie blonde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#1841265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1841265) [\#12400045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12400045))

- Tom is a **natural** athlete.
  Tom est un sportif né.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1483064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1483064) [\#1692587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1692587))

- The eye has the **natural** ability to see.
  L'œil est naturellement pourvu de la capacité de voir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MethodGT and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2380098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2380098) [\#2383425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2383425))

## 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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