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Je suis joyeux de **nature**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Glat64 and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12457107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12457107) [\#11507310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11507310)) - Let us stick to **nature**, then. Restons donc dans la **nature**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 523) - However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by **nature** are not gods. Autrefois, ne connaissant pas Dieu, vous serviez des dieux qui ne le sont pas de leur **nature**; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:8) - Another point is **nature** conservation. Un autre point a trait à la préservation de la **nature**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1679790) - **Nature** of the Agreement **Nature** de la convention ([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 1663784) ## caractère Used about 19 009 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 016 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 244 · UN documents ≈ 14 749). - The imperialist **nature** of this is plain to see. Elle affiche ouvertement son **caractère** impérialiste. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 143891) - Cross-border **nature** of the case **Caractère** transfrontalier du litige ([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 4075356) - The critical **natures** of their linkages needs to be recognized and strengthened. Il est nécessaire de prendre conscience du **caractère** vital de leurs liens et de renforcer ceux-ci. ([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 469595) - The technical **nature** of this issue should make this possible. Le **caractère** technique de la question devrait le permettre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 173019) - Publications of a general **nature** Publications de **caractère** général ([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 4477950) ## leur Used about 4 974 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 435 · UN documents ≈ 4 538). - Work of a nursing, caring, educating and teaching **nature** should be properly valued. Les tâches de soins, d'assistance, d'éducation et d'instruction devraient être reconnues à **leur** juste valeur. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1205924) - 388. For the past 10 years men who have committed sexual abuse but have become aware of their own violent **natures** have been meeting in groups led by a male psychologist in order to assess and improve their understanding of their behaviour towards women. Depuis deux ans, des hommes auteurs d ' abus sexuels, sensibilisés à **leur** propre violence, se retrouvent en groupes dirigés par un psychologue masculin, afin de mieux se comprendre et évaluer leur comportement par rapport aux femmes. ([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 3801255) - This involves bringing about fundamental changes of both an external and internal **nature** to and in the existing institutions. Il s'agit ici d'apporter des changements fondamentaux à la forme et au fond des institutions en place et à **leur** fonctionnement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1964950) - The numerous conflicts of various **natures** in different parts of the world made it important to define precise, feasible objectives for peacekeeping operations and to ensure sufficient resources for the successful implementation of mandates. Il existe de nombreux conflits de différentes natures dans différentes parties du monde, de là l ' importance de définir des objectifs précis et viables pour les opérations de maintien de la paix et de **leur** assurer des ressources suffisantes pour l ' accomplissement de leur mandat respectif. ([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 5940346) - The horizontal **nature** of both and their priority application to all Community policies already appear in the treaty - articles 130 A to 130 E. **Leur** horizontalité, c'est-à-dire leur application prioritaire à toutes les politiques communautaires, figure déjà dans le traité - articles 130 A à 130 E -. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1679863) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I don't think man is evil by **nature**. Je ne crois pas que l'homme est naturellement mauvais. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nicholas\_martin and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#5942671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5942671) [\#5124922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5124922)) - "Wait – where are you going?" "Call of **nature**." "What?" "The loo!" « Attendez ; où allez-vous ? » « J'ai un besoin naturel. » « Quoi ? » « Je dois aller aux chiottes ! » ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#11492605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11492605) [\#11546967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11546967)) - “We, being Jews by **nature** and not Gentile sinners, Nous, nous sommes Juifs de naissance, et non pécheurs d’entre les païens. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 2:15) ## 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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