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# religious — English to French

How English *religious* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: religious (87 535). By style: everyday 90 · literary 8 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 3 285 · legal and administrative 628 · UN documents 83 522.

## religieux

Used about 73 307 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 83 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 011 · legal and administrative ≈ 602 · UN documents ≈ 69 602). Forms: religieuse, religieuses, religieux, religion.

- He's not **religious**.
  Il n'est pas **religieux**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Bruno · checked, community translation · [\#3680232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3680232) [\#461804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/461804))

- Marius had preserved the **religious** habits of his childhood.
  Marius avait gardé les habitudes **religieuses** de son enfance.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13510)

- Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very **religious** in all things.
  Paul, debout au milieu de l’Aréopage, dit: Hommes Athéniens, je vous trouve à tous égards extrêmement **religieux**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 17:22)

- What we are seeing is **religious** terror.
  Il est tout simplement question de terreur **religieuse**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 131985)

- Minister of **Religious** Endowments.
  Ministre des biens **religieux**.
  ([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 2795162)

## liberté

Used about 70 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 68).

- Full **religious** freedom is assured to all people.
  Une totale **liberté** de culte est garantie à tous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#21092](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21092) [\#9381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9381))

- Turkey also restricts **religious** freedom, and this led to the killing of an Italian missionary.
  Elle restreint par ailleurs la **liberté** de culte, ce qui a entraîné l’assassinat d’un missionnaire italien.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 854664)

## More sentences

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

- Is your wife **religious**?
  Ta femme est-elle pratiquante ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by traeton and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8683157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8683157) [\#4469289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4469289))

- I'm a deeply **religious** man and believe in life after death.
  Je suis un homme profondément croyant et je crois en une vie après la mort.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#258759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/258759) [\#533888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/533888))

- Tom is a **religious** man.
  Tom est un homme pieux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6877452](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6877452) [\#6877567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6877567))

## 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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