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# maternelle — French to English

How French *maternelle* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 7 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: maternelle (31 347), maternelles (4 565). By style: everyday 169 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 668 · legal and administrative 159 · UN documents 34 914.

## maternal

Used about 18 357 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 97 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 18 184). Meaning: [maternal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/maternal/).

- La mère de ma mère est ma grand-mère **maternelle**.
  My mother's mother is my **maternal** grandmother.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#9737985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9737985) [\#11422049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11422049))

- La mortalité **maternelle** y est donc très importante.
  **Maternal** mortality is therefore very high.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1126292)

- Projet pilote – vaccination **maternelle**:
  Pilot project — **Maternal** immunisation:
  ([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 3775957)

- Soins de santé **maternelle**
  **Maternal** health-care system
  ([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 20765920)

- Elle parle cinq langues, mais quand elle veut jurer, elle le fait dans sa langue **maternelle**.
  She knows five languages, but when she wants to swear, she does so in her **maternal** language.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · [\#3605298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3605298) [\#11624220](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11624220))

## kindergartens

Used about 4 779 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 37 · UN documents ≈ 4 728).

- Les gouvernements devraient s'engager davantage en faveur des parents qui élèvent et éduquent des enfants et de l'accueil des enfants dans des crèches et écoles **maternelles**.
  Governments should be more committed to the raising and education of children and their accommodation at creches and **kindergartens**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1040238)

- Il conviendrait de rendre accessibles les fonctions administratives essentielles en ligne des établissements scolaires, des écoles **maternelles** ou des crèches.
  Essential online administrative functions of schools, **kindergartens** or nurseries should be made accessible.
  ([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 3905702)

- Source : Direction générale des écoles **maternelles**, rapport 2006
  Source: General Department for **Kindergartens** - report 2006.
  ([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 17002581)

- Deuxièmement, je voudrais exprimer mes sincères remerciements à M. Špidla pour avoir offert la possibilité, dans le cadre du Fonds social européen, qui est le principal instrument financier de l'Union européenne, de réaliser une enquête dans les écoles **maternelles**.
  Secondly, I want to express immense thanks to Mr Špidla for allowing, in the European Social Fund, the European Union's great financial instrument, the possibility of investing in **kindergartens**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1334501)

- Inclusion dans les écoles **maternelles** et élémentaires au titre de l'axe prioritaire «Éducation» du PO «Ressources humaines» (2014SK05M0OP001)
  Inclusion in **kindergartens** and elementary schools under Priority Axis Education of Operational Programme Human Resources (2014SK05M0OP001)
  ([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 4415330)

## tongue

Used about 3 230 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 244 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 · UN documents ≈ 2 910). Meaning: [tongue in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/tongue/).

- L'ourdou est sa langue **maternelle**.
  Urdu is her mother **tongue**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nabeel\_tahir and nabeel\_tahir · checked, community translation · [\#2043245](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2043245) [\#2043267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2043267))

- Je vais à présent m'exprimer dans ma langue **maternelle**.
  I shall now use my mother **tongue**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1468504)

- Communication dans la langue **maternelle**
  Communication in the mother **tongue**
  ([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 881976)

- Allemand (langue **maternelle**), anglais, français, rudiments d &apos; espagnol
  German (mother **tongue**), English, French, some Spanish
  ([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 8833825)

- Quelle est ta langue **maternelle** ?
  What is your mother **tongue**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and CC · checked, community translation · [\#70402](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/70402) [\#1322544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1322544))

## school

Used about 2 216 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 21 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 · UN documents ≈ 2 182). Forms: school, schools. Meaning: [school in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/school/).

- Elle va entrer en deuxième année de **maternelle**.
  She is going into the second year of pre-**school**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and marioo · checked, community translation · [\#3272658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272658) [\#3272661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272661))

- Nous pensons que cette solution serait extrêmement difficile à mettre en pratique, coûteuse et inefficace, en particulier dans les écoles accueillant de nombreux enfants de langues **maternelles** diverses. De plus, nous ne pensons pas que cela contribuerait à favoriser l'intégration des migrants dans les communautés locales.
  It is our belief that this will be extremely unworkable, costly and inefficient, particularly in **schools** which have children from many diverse linguistic backgrounds and would do little to foster integration of migrants into local communities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1387074)

- Utilisation des services de garde d’enfants pendant la semaine, notamment pour le plus jeune enfant vivant au foyer (les assistantes **maternelles** rémunérées et les structures préscolaires y comprises, à l’exclusion du cadre de la scolarité obligatoire).
  Use of childcare services per week for the youngest child living in the household (including paid childminders, pre-**school**; apart from compulsory school)
  ([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 1787137)

- La faiblesse des effectifs des écoles **maternelles**;
  The low level of pre-**school** enrolment;
  ([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 7924030)

- L'académie kabyle prépare une plateforme qui prendra en charge tout le programme scolaire kabyle et ce de la **maternelle** à l'universitaire.
  The Kabyle academy is preparing a platform that will take care of the entire Kabyle **school** program from kindergarten to university.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#11248794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11248794) [\#11248779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11248779))

## mother

Used about 1 893 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 · UN documents ≈ 1 818). Meaning: [mother in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mother/).

- Ma grand-mère **maternelle** vit à Osaka.
  My grandmother on my **mother**'s side lives in Osaka.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kiyo and CN · checked, community translation · [\#2458343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2458343) [\#2517105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2517105))

- Iles, écoutez-moi! Peuples lointains, soyez attentifs! L’Éternel m’a appelé dès ma naissance, Il m’a nommé dès ma sortie des entrailles **maternelles**.
  Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the LORD has called me from the womb; from the inside of my **mother**, he has mentioned my name.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 49:1)

- Qu’adviendra-t-il de certaines langues **maternelles** oubliées par l’UE?
  What will happen to some **mother** tongues which have been forgotten by the EU?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 615714)

- Vụ Sức khỏe Bà mẹ – Trẻ em (Département de la santé infantile et **maternelle**)
  Vụ Sức khỏe Bà mẹ – Trẻ em (Department of Children - **Mother** Health)
  ([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 351137)

- Les 10 langues **maternelles** les plus fréquemment enseignées sont les suivantes: arabe, bosniaque, croate, serbe, finnois, espagnol, albanais, anglais, farsi et turc.
  The 10 most common **mother** tongues are Arabic, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Finnish, Spanish, Albanian, English, Farsi and Turkish.
  ([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 17020184)

## nursery

Used about 1 607 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 · UN documents ≈ 1 455). Meaning: [nursery in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/nursery/).

- T'es en **maternelle** ou quoi ?
  Are you in **nursery** or what?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13017571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017571) [\#13017562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017562))

- Au point 24, il est indiqué qu'il est important que la mixité puisse exister dans l'éducation sportive pour les enfants des écoles **maternelles** et primaires.
  Paragraph 24 talks about the importance of offering sports coeducation for children at **nursery** and primary schools.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 988339)

- C'est-à-dire à l'exclusion des écoles **maternelles** ou assimilées.
  i.e. excluding **nursery** school or equivalent.
  ([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 627971)

- Les écoles **maternelles** sont destinées aux enfants de 3 à 7 ans.
  **Nursery** schools are intended for children at the age of three to seven.
  ([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 22493553)

- Ton petit est en **maternelle** ?
  Is your little one in **nursery**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12963896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12963896) [\#12963889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12963889))

## native

Used about 474 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 49 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 364). Meaning: [native in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/native/).

- C’est pas ma langue **maternelle**.
  It's not my **native** language.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2439941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2439941) [\#2445365](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2445365))

- Et comment les entendons-nous dans notre propre langue à chacun, dans notre langue **maternelle**?
  How do we hear, everyone in our own **native** language?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 2:8)

- Elle a obtenu la reconnaissance de la Commission avec un rapport rédigé en hongrois, sa langue **maternelle**.
  The winner of the award earned the Commission's recognition with a report written in Hungarian, her **native** language.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1449844)

- la langue **maternelle** du candidat.
  the applicant’s **native** language.
  ([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 2070250)

- c) Assurant dans la mesure du possible aux enfants roms la possibilité de suivre un enseignement dans leur langue **maternelle**;
  (c) Ensuring, to the extent possible, adequate opportunities for Roma children to receive instruction in their **native** language;
  ([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 16334491)

## More sentences

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

- Ton petit est en école **maternelle** ?
  Is your little one in preschool?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12963891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12963891) [\#12963902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12963902))

- Ta petite est en école **maternelle** ?
  Is your little one in preschool?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12963891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12963891) [\#12963900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12963900))

- T'es en **maternelle** ou quoi ?
  Are you in kindergarten or something?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13017566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017566) [\#13017562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017562))

## 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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