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# mort — French to English

How French *mort* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: mort (64 628), morte (2 658), mortes (1 731), morts (15 559). By style: everyday 1 820 · literary 168 · biblical 791 · parliamentary 8 236 · legal and administrative 3 905 · UN documents 69 656.

## died

Used about 21 044 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 540 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 47 · parliamentary ≈ 1 845 · legal and administrative ≈ 102 · UN documents ≈ 18 502).

- Notre mère est **morte**.
  Our mum has **died**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and Lebensfreude · checked, community translation · [\#13307096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13307096) [\#12109462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12109462))

- --Elle est **morte** à la pointe du jour.
  “She **died** at daybreak.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11473)

- Vos pères ont mangé la manne dans le désert, et ils sont **morts**.
  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they **died**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 6:49)

- Ce sont les petits pauvres qui sont **morts**.
  It was those at the bottom of the heap who **died**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 483115)

- **Mort** lors du bombardement du 18 juillet 2012.
  **Died** in the 18 July 2012 bombing.
  ([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 2785998)

## death

Used about 18 995 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 237 · literary ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 196 · parliamentary ≈ 1 845 · legal and administrative ≈ 348 · UN documents ≈ 16 326). Meaning: [death in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/death/).

- Je suis **morte** de peur.
  I'm scared to **death**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3619096](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3619096) [\#7774637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7774637))

- **Mort**, je me sers de toi, mais je te hais.
  **Death**, I make use of thee, but I hate thee.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24249)

- Le gouffre et la **mort** disent: Nous en avons entendu parler.
  Destruction and **Death** say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 28:22)

- Peine de **mort** aux Etats-Unis
  **Death** sentence in the United States
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1745059)

- Dommages-intérêts en cas de **mort**
  Damages in case of **death**
  ([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 1314244)

## dead

Used about 13 673 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 787 · literary ≈ 105 · biblical ≈ 345 · parliamentary ≈ 1 930 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 799 · UN documents ≈ 8 707). Meaning: [dead in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/dead/).

- Ils sont tous **morts**.
  They are all **dead**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#306300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306300) [\#560643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/560643))

- Il faut obéir aux **morts**.
  The **dead** must be obeyed.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11540)

- Et ils se moquaient de lui, sachant qu’elle était **morte**.
  They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was **dead**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 8:53)

- Jusqu' à ce jour, nous dénombrons 79 **morts** et 2 disparus.
  So far there are 79 **dead** and 2 unaccounted for.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 92951)

- nombre de colonies **mortes**;
  number of **dead** colonies;
  ([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 5317000)

## people

Used about 3 083 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · biblical ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 472 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 · UN documents ≈ 2 540). Meaning: [people in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/people/).

- Nous avons tous pleuré les gens **morts** dans l'accident.
  We all mourned for the **people** killed in the accident.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#248509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/248509) [\#1188028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1188028))

- et je ramènerai à toi tout le peuple; la **mort** de l’homme à qui tu en veux assurera le retour de tous, et tout le peuple sera en paix.
  and I will bring back all the **people** to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 17:3)

- Les armes européennes sont responsables de la **mort** et de la mutilation d'un grand nombre de gens.
  European weapons are responsible for the killing and maiming of many **people**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1848779)

- En janvier 2010, le réseau Haqqani a été l'instigateur d'un attentat coordonné commis contre des bâtiments publics clefs à Kaboul, qui a fait cinq **morts** et 70 blessés.
  In January 2010, the Haqqani Network was behind a coordinated attack on key government buildings in Kabul, which killed five **people** and wounded 70.
  ([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 4155375)

- — La distribution allègre de la **mort**, faisant de nombreuses victimes, en majorité civiles;
  - The indiscriminate killing of many **people**, most of them civilians;
  ([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 4243644)

## More sentences

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

- Je t'aimerai jusqu'à ma **mort**.
  I'll love you until I die.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1224624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224624) [\#8193380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8193380))

- Il est **mort** à la guerre.
  He was slain in battle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#300683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300683) [\#132802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132802))

- Mon grand-père est **mort** il y a trois ans.
  My grandfather passed away three years ago.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and CK · checked, community translation · [\#273847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/273847) [\#128997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128997))

## Grammar

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