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# necessity — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: necessities (1 943), necessity (21 195). By style: everyday 40 · literary 12 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 1 635 · legal and administrative 1 509 · UN documents 19 936.

## nécessité

Used about 13 455 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 818 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 182 · UN documents ≈ 11 422). Forms: nécessité, nécessités.

- I went there of **necessity**.
  J'y suis allé par **nécessité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#255841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/255841) [\#8547984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8547984))

- Let us return—it is a **necessity** in this book—to that fatal battle-field.
  Revenons, c'est une **nécessité** de ce livre, sur ce fatal champ de bataille.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7629)

- For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for **necessity** is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
  Si j’annonce l’Évangile, ce n’est pas pour moi un sujet de gloire, car la **nécessité** m’en est imposée, et malheur à moi si je n’annonce pas l’Évangile!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:16)

- As I said, it has become a **necessity**.
  Comme je l’ai dit, c’est devenu une **nécessité**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 659398)

- **Necessity** of the aid
  **Nécessité** de l'aide
  ([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 5636543)

## More sentences

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

- Talking is a **necessity**, listening is an art.
  Parler est un besoin, écouter est un art.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6301770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6301770) [\#6301771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6301771))

- Knowing how to conjugate verbs is an absolute **necessity**.
  Pour apprendre une langue, il est impératif de connaître la conjugaison des verbes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AmarMecheri and AmarMecheri · checked, community translation · [\#7062758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7062758) [\#7061694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7061694))

- There is no **necessity** for you to do that.
  Il n'est pas nécessaire que vous fassiez ça.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and chtof · checked, community translation · [\#71574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/71574) [\#432177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/432177))

## 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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