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# religion — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: religion (54 147), religions (12 338). By style: everyday 145 · literary 19 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 2 214 · legal and administrative 285 · UN documents 63 816.

## religion

Used about 61 518 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 141 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 937 · legal and administrative ≈ 256 · UN documents ≈ 59 163). Forms: religion, religions.

- I have no **religion**.
  Je n'ai pas de **religion**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5166602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5166602) [\#5167411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5167411))

- A great merit in **religion**.
  Grand mérite en **religion**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11395)

- having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our **religion** I lived a Pharisee.
  Ils savent depuis longtemps, s’ils veulent le déclarer, que j’ai vécu pharisien, selon la secte la plus rigide de notre **religion**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 26:5)

- Freedom of **religion** is not negotiable either.
  La liberté de **religion** ne se négocie pas non plus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 778447)

- Freedom of thought, conscience and **religion**
  Liberté de pensée, de conscience et de **religion**
  ([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 4226906)

## toutes

Used about 1 330 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 330).

- It is a fundamental right for mankind, recognized by all **religions** as well as by international covenants.
  C &apos; est un droit fondamental de l &apos; humanité, reconnu par **toutes** les lois divines et par les pactes internationaux.
  ([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 184042)

- Religious feast days of all **religions** are gazetted holidays and senior leaders of the country participate in the celebrations of these feasts.
  Les fêtes religieuses de **toutes** les confessions sont des jours fériés officiels et les hauts dirigeants du pays participent aux célébrations organisées à ces occasions.
  ([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 11648563)

## liberté

Used about 140 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 138).

- There's no freedom of **religion** in this country.
  Il n'y a pas de **liberté** de culte dans ce pays.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#2268728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2268728) [\#6892284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6892284))

- Freedom of **religion** must not be a dead letter.
  La **liberté** de culte ne peut quant à elle rester lettre morte.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 465441)

- There is no room for strikes and demonstrations, or for freedom of association, freedom of **religion** or free elections.
  Les grèves et les manifestations n'ont pas leur place, pas plus que la **liberté** d'association, la liberté de culte ou les élections libres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 315866)

- Mr President, in Paragraph 17, rapporteur Mrs Oomen-Ruijten calls upon the whole of Turkish society to practise freedom of **religion** on a large scale.
  Monsieur le Président, au paragraphe 17, la rapporteure, Mme Oomen-Ruijten, appelle l'ensemble de la société turque à pratiquer la **liberté** religieuse à grande échelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1226729)

- The Commission condemns any attempt by the Chinese authorities to suppress freedom of speech and of **religion** and deplores the current situation in Tibet.
  La Commission dénonce toute intention de la part des autorités chinoises de supprimer la **liberté** d'expression et de culte et déplore la situation qui existe actuellement au Tibet.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1697166)

## culture

Used about 10 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10).

- Recreation, culture and **religion**
  Loisirs, **culture** et religionn
  ([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 1942290)

- Former ‘Minister of Education, Science, Culture and **Religion**’ of the so-called ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’.
  Ancienne 愦灭;quot;ministre de l’éducation, des sciences, de la **culture** et de la religion愦灭;quot; de la soi-disant 愦灭;quot;République populaire de Lougansk愦灭;quot;.
  ([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 5159431)

## More sentences

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

- Generally speaking, the errors in **religion** are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
  De manière générale, les erreurs d'ordre spirituel sont dangereuses ; celles d'ordre philosophique seulement ridicules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#714755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/714755) [\#730244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/730244))

- For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ **religion**, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
  Vous avez su, en effet, quelle était autrefois ma conduite dans le judaïsme, comment je persécutais à outrance et ravageais l’Église de Dieu,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 1:13)

- I advanced in the Jews’ **religion** beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
  et comment j’étais plus avancé dans le judaïsme que beaucoup de ceux de mon âge et de ma nation, étant animé d’un zèle excessif pour les traditions de mes pères.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 1:14)

## 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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