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# positive — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: positive (114 118), positives (297). By style: everyday 90 · literary 3 · parliamentary 15 318 · legal and administrative 9 680 · UN documents 89 324.

## positif

Used about 88 608 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 64 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 14 010 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 470 · UN documents ≈ 66 063). Forms: positif, positifs, positive, positives.

- Try to stay **positive**.
  Essaye de rester **positif**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#8597947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8597947) [\#11955787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11955787))

- It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of **positive** laws; and, between two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for conflagration.
  Ce n'est pas que Combeferre ne fût capable de combattre, il ne refusait pas de prendre corps à corps l'obstacle et de l'attaquer de vive force et par explosion; mais mettre peu à peu, par l'enseignement des axiomes et la promulgation des lois **positives**, le genre humain d'accord avec ses destinées, cela lui plaisait mieux; et, entre deux clartés, sa pente était plutôt pour l'illumination que pour l'embrasement.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14017)

- Those are **positives**.
  Tout cela est **positif**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 760173)

- 愦灭;gt; 2 % of RH1 (D) **positives**
  愦灭;gt; 2 % des RH1 (D) **positifs**
  ([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 1713416)

- But there are some **positives**.
  Il y a cependant des éléments **positifs**.
  ([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 20190563)

## More sentences

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

- Is this **positive** news?
  Est-ce une bonne nouvelle ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Anthaus · checked, community translation · [\#6973058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6973058) [\#2490250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2490250))

- I am **positive** that he is wrong.
  Je suis certain qu'il a tort.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#21698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21698) [\#9443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9443))

- We're **positive** that they forgot to call us.
  Nous sommes sûrs qu'ils ont oublié de nous appeler.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by erikspen and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#1681015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1681015) [\#1675275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1675275))

## 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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