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# reality — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: realities (11 123), reality (27 186). By style: everyday 129 · literary 18 · parliamentary 7 888 · legal and administrative 717 · UN documents 29 557.

## réalité

Used about 31 509 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 119 · literary ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 6 080 · legal and administrative ≈ 665 · UN documents ≈ 24 631). Forms: réalité, réalités.

- It's become a **reality**.
  C'est devenu une **réalité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#8739088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8739088) [\#8738603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8738603))

- There is but one **reality**: drink.
  Il n'y a qu'une **réalité**: boire.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23684)

- But in **reality** they do not.
  Mais, dans la **réalité**, ça ne fonctionne pas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 240617)

- the **reality** of expenditure claimed;
  sur la **réalité** des dépenses déclarées;
  ([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 1098011)

- This **reality** exists in Tibet today.
  Cette **réalité** est celle du Tibet aujourd &apos; hui.
  ([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 5179156)

## More sentences

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

- I thought he was busy, but in **reality** he was available.
  Je le pensais occupé, mais en fait il était libre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by halfb1t and Despear · checked, community translation · [\#2082691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2082691) [\#2081389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2081389))

- Not man but water is the **reality** of all things.
  Ce n'est pas l'homme mais l'eau qui est le principe de toutes choses.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6216658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6216658) [\#6216659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6216659))

- The dream has become a **reality**.
  Ce rêve s'est réalisé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and superbolo · checked, community translation · [\#43834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43834) [\#139337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139337))

## 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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