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# relative — English to French

How English *relative* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: relative (31 551), relatives (18 332). By style: everyday 63 · literary 6 · biblical 61 · parliamentary 1 317 · legal and administrative 4 516 · UN documents 43 920.

## relative

Used about 21 601 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 082 · UN documents ≈ 20 130). Forms: relative, relatives.

- Insanity is **relative**. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
  La folie est **relative**. Ça dépend de qui a enfermé qui dans quelle cage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1611717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1611717) [\#1614301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1614301))

- The blind clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre breath, the **relative** innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those who condemned as well as of the man condemned,—he had looked on those things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God.
  La clairvoyance aveugle de la Révolution, brisant la royauté dans le roi et le roi avec la royauté, sans presque remarquer l'homme dans le farouche écrasement de l'idée, le vaste orage de l'assemblée tribunal, la colère publique interrogeant, Capet ne sachant que répondre, l'effrayante vacillation stupéfaite de cette tête royale sous ce souffle sombre, l'innocence **relative** de tous dans cette catastrophe, de ceux qui condamnaient comme de celui qui était condamné, il avait regardé ces choses, il avait contemplé ces vertiges; il avait vu les siècles comparaître à la barre de la Convention; il avait vu, derrière Louis XVI, cet infortuné passant responsable, se dresser dans les ténèbres la formidable accusée, la monarchie; et il lui était resté dans l'âme l'épouvante respectueuse de ces immenses justices du peuple presque aussi impersonnelles que la justice de Dieu.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18177)

- I only say this to illustrate the **relative** nature of the figures.
  Je dis cela uniquement pour illustrer la nature **relative** des chiffres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 813969)

- This is a **relative** evaluation.
  Il s'agit d'une évaluation **relative**.
  ([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 4721078)

- Questions **relatives** au programme \[4\]
  Questions **relatives** au programme \[4\]
  ([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 8231011)

## parents

Used about 5 746 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 165 · legal and administrative ≈ 517 · UN documents ≈ 5 033).

- Do you have **relatives** here?
  Avez-vous des **parents** ici ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7686613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7686613) [\#8418526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8418526))

- “I have no longer any **relatives**.”
  --Je n'ai plus de **parents**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3169)

- For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my **relatives** according to the flesh
  Car je voudrais moi-même être anathème et séparé de Christ pour mes frères, mes **parents** selon la chair,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 9:3)

- Amendment No 5 deals with **relatives** from the ascending line.
  L'amendement 5 traite des **parents** de ligne ascendante.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 83623)

- with adult **relatives**; or
  auprès de **parents** adultes; ou
  ([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 1871735)

## proches

Used about 4 977 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 192 · legal and administrative ≈ 659 · UN documents ≈ 4 118).

- I often visit my **relatives**.
  Je rends souvent visite à mes **proches**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2174962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2174962) [\#7793888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7793888))

- My **relatives** have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
  Je suis abandonné de mes **proches**, Je suis oublié de mes intimes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 19:14)

- Some have lost **relatives**, and many their homes.
  Certains ont perdu des **proches**, beaucoup leur foyer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 354446)

- Never had to care for incapacitated **relatives**
  N'a jamais dû s'occuper de **proches** en état d'incapacité
  ([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 4111087)

- Many of those **relatives** have subsequently been arrested and deported.
  Nombre de ces **proches** ont par la suite été arrêtés puis expulsés.
  ([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 4381303)

## More sentences

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

- The problem quoted isn't one, but there are problems in the reading section that ask you to distinguish **relative** pronouns from **relative** adverbs.
  Le problème cité n'en est pas un, mais il y en a dans la partie lecture qui vous demandent de faire la distinction entre pronoms relatifs et adverbes relatifs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Corvus · checked, community translation · [\#328686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328686) [\#906194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/906194))

- Tom is a distant **relative** of Mary's.
  Tom est un parent éloigné de Marie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3444525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3444525) [\#1975518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1975518))

- The problem quoted isn't one, but there are problems in the reading section that ask you to distinguish **relative** pronouns from **relative** adverbs.
  Le problème mentionné n'en est pas un. Cependant, il existe des problèmes dans la section lecture qui vous invitent à distinguer les pronoms relatifs des adverbes relatifs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#328686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328686) [\#10015381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10015381))

## Grammar

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