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# mariage — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mariage (41 761), mariages (11 457). By style: everyday 384 · literary 21 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 633 · legal and administrative 359 · UN documents 51 815.

## marriage

Used about 44 768 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 174 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 541 · legal and administrative ≈ 320 · UN documents ≈ 43 719). Forms: marriage, marriages. Meaning: [marriage in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/marriage/).

- Notre **mariage** a pris fin.
  Our **marriage** is over.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and pauldhunt · checked, community translation · [\#1526480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1526480) [\#4904375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4904375))

- --Il convenait que je fusse absent de votre **mariage**.
  “It was fitting that I should be absent from your **marriage**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30227)

- Que le **mariage** soit honoré de tous, et le lit conjugal exempt de souillure, car Dieu jugera les impudiques et les adultères.
  Let **marriage** be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 13:4)

- Sur quoi devrait porter ce **mariage**?
  On what should this **marriage** be based?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 702534)

- ne sont pas des **mariages**, et
  are not **marriages**, and
  ([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 1948675)

## family

Used about 7 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1). Meaning: [family in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/family/).

- La famille de la promise paie pour le **mariage**.
  The bride's **family** is paying for the wedding.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#11236502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11236502) [\#11236509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11236509))

- On s'imaginait encore à cette époque, chose bizarre, qu'un **mariage** est une fête intime et sociale, qu'un banquet patriarcal ne gâte point une solennité domestique, que la gaîté, fût-elle excessive, pourvu qu'elle soit honnête, ne fait aucun mal au bonheur, et qu'enfin il est vénérable et bon que la fusion de ces deux destinées d'où sortira une famille commence dans la maison, et que le ménage ait désormais pour témoin la chambre nuptiale.
  Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence a **family** is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29503)

## More sentences

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

- Elles ne m'ont pas invité à leur **mariage**.
  They did not invite me to their wedding.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2369676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2369676) [\#2417335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2417335))

- Deux mois seulement après la demande en **mariage** de Sami, le couple a noué le nœud.
  Just two months after Sami proposed, the couple tied the knot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6325926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6325926) [\#6326251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6326251))

- Je ne veux pas d'un **mariage** tralala.
  I don't want a big wedding.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3494837](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3494837) [\#3514565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3514565))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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