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# volunteers — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: volunteers (19 998). By style: everyday 35 · parliamentary 286 · legal and administrative 582 · UN documents 19 095.

## volontaires

Used about 15 793 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 143 · legal and administrative ≈ 509 · UN documents ≈ 15 117). Forms: volontaire, volontaires.

- He **volunteers**.
  Il se porte **volontaire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#8477116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8477116) [\#10868078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10868078))

- To that end, we must invest heavily in **volunteers**.
  À cet effet, nous devons investir fortement dans les **volontaires**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 636052)

- Telephone **volunteers** in Russia:
  Correspondants téléphoniques **volontaires** en Russie:
  ([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 4840851)

- (d) United Nations **Volunteers**
  d) **Volontaires** des Nations Unies
  ([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 2424901)

- Tom **volunteers**.
  Tom se porte **volontaire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#2203885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2203885) [\#9252840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9252840))

## bénévoles

Used about 1 781 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 119 · legal and administrative ≈ 61 · UN documents ≈ 1 591).

- **Volunteers** get a T-shirt.
  Les **bénévoles** reçoivent un maillot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#4498858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4498858) [\#9731145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9731145))

- Ladies and gentlemen, we are not amateurs or **volunteers**!
  Mesdames et Messieurs, nous ne sommes pas des amateurs ni des **bénévoles**!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1397341)

- coaching staff — **volunteers** — professional sport,
  aux entraîneurs — **bénévoles** — du milieu du sport professionnel,
  ([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 5053952)

- Youth **volunteers** in India were creating awareness about sanitation and hygiene.
  Des jeunes **bénévoles** en Inde organisent des campagnes de sensibilisation aux problèmes d &apos; assainissement et d &apos; hygiène.
  ([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 26207326)

- **Volunteers** get a T-shirt.
  Les **bénévoles** reçoivent un T-shirt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#4498858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4498858) [\#9731142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9731142))

## More sentences

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

- He **volunteers**.
  Il est bénévole.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#8477116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8477116) [\#10868079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10868079))

- Indeed, we must remember that we should be concentrating more on implementing the system of calls for **volunteers** than on compensation.
  Nous devons en effet nous rappeler que nous devons aboutir à la mise en application d'un système basé sur le volontariat plutôt que sur des indemnisations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 380620)

- But the environment is our future and we cannot rely solely on **volunteers** or fear of a sentence from the Court of Justice to protect it.
  Mais l'environnement est notre avenir et, pour le défendre, nous ne pouvons pas nous fier uniquement au volontarisme, ni même à la capacité punitive de la Cour de justice.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 141108)

## Grammar

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