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# negative — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: negative (64 963), negatives (169). By style: everyday 61 · literary 3 · parliamentary 4 536 · legal and administrative 11 488 · UN documents 49 044.

## négatif

Used about 50 900 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 50 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 969 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 117 · UN documents ≈ 35 761). Forms: négatif, négatifs, négative, négatives.

- Don't be so **negative**.
  Ne sois pas si **négatif** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1860507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860507) [\#2036230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2036230))

- He made a sign of the head in the **negative**.
  Il fit un signe de tête **négatif**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5759)

- How can we stave off such a **negative** outcome?
  Comment pouvons-nous éviter des conséquences si **négatives**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 812184)

- **Negatives**; intermediate positives
  **négatifs**; positifs intermédiaires de travail
  ([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 3290796)

- Black and white prints and film **negatives** for reproduction
  Épreuves noir et blanc et **négatifs** à des fins de reproduction
  ([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 6903774)

## More sentences

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

- My account has a **negative** balance.
  Mon compte est débiteur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13888218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13888218) [\#13888209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13888209))

- My account balance is **negative**.
  Mon compte est à découvert.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13888217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13888217) [\#13888214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13888214))

- My account balance is **negative**.
  Mon compte présente un solde débiteur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13888217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13888217) [\#13888215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13888215))

## 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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