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# origin — English to French

How English *origin* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: origin (100 764), origins (4 452). By style: everyday 54 · literary 6 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 5 006 · legal and administrative 32 647 · UN documents 67 502.

## origine

Used about 83 845 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 963 · legal and administrative ≈ 30 607 · UN documents ≈ 49 220). Forms: origine, origines.

- Do you know the **origin**?
  Connaissez-vous l'**origine** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11480767](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11480767) [\#11480780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11480780))

- CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE **ORIGIN** OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE THE CARD
  Où l'on trouvera l'**origine** du mot: ne pas perdre la carte
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12158)

- and say, ‘The Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: “Your **origin** and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
  Tu diras: Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel, à Jérusalem: Par ton **origine** et ta naissance tu es du pays de Canaan; ton père était un Amoréen, et ta mère une Héthienne.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:3)

- The country-of-**origin** principle is an integral part.
  Le principe du pays d’**origine** en fait partie intégrante.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 655394)

- Applicable rules of **origin**
  Règles d'**origine** applicables
  ([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 242894)

## autres

Used about 1 043 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 340 · UN documents ≈ 703).

- ‘Others’ shall refer to all **origins** excluding the other countries mentioned in the current table.
  Par «**autres**», il faut entendre tous les pays à l’exclusion de ceux figurant dans le présent tableau.
  ([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 1956643)

- **Origins** of non-soybean oils and meals imported by Cuba include Argentina, Canada, Mexico, the European Union and China.
  Les huiles et tourteaux **autres** que ceux provenant du soja qui sont importés à Cuba proviennent d &apos; Argentine, du Mexique, des États-Unis, du Canada et de la Chine.
  ([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 11420195)

## code

Used about 703 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 703).

- This kinship is defined by article 16 of that law as direct kinship, which means the relationship between the **origins** and the races.
  La nature de cette parenté est précisée à l &apos; article 16 du **Code**: il s &apos; agit de la parenté en ligne directe ainsi que des collatéraux.
  ([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 10567152)

## produits

Used about 52 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 52).

- One of the most important objectives of this whole proposal is to provide the consumer with a guaranteed ability to trace back the **origins** of the products.
  Un des objectifs principaux de cette proposition consiste à fournir au consommateur une garantie de traçabilité des **produits**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1753011)

## More sentences

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

- My friend is of Maghrebi **origin**.
  Mon ami est maghrébin.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12976319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976319) [\#12976287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976287))

- That word is of Greek **origin**.
  Ce mot vient du grec.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#703054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/703054) [\#460770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460770))

- What's the **origin** of that surname?
  D'où vient ce nom de famille ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by araneo and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#13046733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13046733) [\#13080067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13080067))

## 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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