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# renewable — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: renewable (30 798), renewables (1 635). By style: everyday 8 · parliamentary 4 584 · legal and administrative 5 099 · UN documents 22 742.

## renouvelable

Used about 25 869 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 4 393 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 887 · UN documents ≈ 16 583). Forms: renouvelable, renouvelables.

- Hydropower is a **renewable** resource.
  L'hydroélectricité est une ressource **renouvelable**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jesse and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#4415495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4415495) [\#9011945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9011945))

- By definition, it is certainly a **renewable** source of energy.
  Par définition, c’est certainement une source d’énergie **renouvelable**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 723243)

- It shall be **renewable**.
  Le contrat est **renouvelable**.
  ([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 3849580)

- Hydro Combustible **Renewables** and Waste
  Énergie **renouvelable** et déchets utilisés comme combustibles
  ([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 9376533)

- We need to invest in clean, **renewable** energy.
  Nous devons investir dans une énergie propre et **renouvelable**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BHO and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#897925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/897925) [\#1385441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1385441))

## énergies

Used about 996 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 48 · UN documents ≈ 948). Forms: énergie, énergies.

- Algeria needs **renewable** energy.
  L'Algérie a besoin d'**énergies** renouvenables.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#8562025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8562025) [\#12493908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493908))

- This is also a way to have **renewables** and energy efficiency.
  C'est aussi une façon d'exploiter les **énergies** renouvelable et d'assurer l'efficacité énergétique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1470949)

- OF THE COMMITTEE ON NEW AND **RENEWABLE** SOURCES OF ENERGY AND
  DEUXIÈME SESSION DU COMITÉ DES SOURCES D &apos; **ÉNERGIE**
  ([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 1905192)

- International financial institutions should be encouraged to raise the profile of **renewables** in their lending strategies.
  Il convient d &apos; encourager les institutions internationales de financement à donner plus de place à ces **énergies** dans leurs stratégies de prêt.
  ([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 14882282)

- Source: The Worldwatch Institute, **Renewables** 2005: Global Status Report (2005); International Energy Agency, **Renewables** for Power Generation (2003).
  Source : The Worldwatch Institute, Renewables 2005: Global Status Report (2005); Agence internationale de l &apos; **énergie**, Renewables for Power Generation (2003).
  ([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 15623166)

## sources

Used about 237 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 237).

- COMMITTEE ON NEW AND **RENEWABLE** SOURCES
  COMMITTEE ON NEW AND RENEWABLE **SOURCES**
  ([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 2092117)

## More sentences

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

- We once had a debate about feeding in electricity from **renewables** here.
  Nous avons déjà eu ici un débat sur l'arrivée de courant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1970117)

- I hope that in the future it can be included in the list of **renewables**.
  J'espère qu'elle pourra à l'avenir être incluse dans la liste.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 6598)

- I would like to emphasise in this connection the importance of business in developing and exporting **renewables** technology.
  Je voudrais souligner, à cet égard, l'importance des entreprises dans le développement et l'exportation de technologie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1945400)

## Grammar

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