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# nations — French to English

How French *nations* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: nations (1 568 682). By style: everyday 56 · literary 6 · biblical 441 · parliamentary 13 155 · legal and administrative 9 999 · UN documents 1 545 025.

## nations

Used about 1 430 021 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 413 · parliamentary ≈ 9 318 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 958 · UN documents ≈ 1 416 273).

- Tom travaille aux **Nations** Unies.
  Tom works for the United **Nations**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Maxence and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2540759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2540759) [\#7695180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7695180))

- Voici l'architecture mazarine, le mauvais pasticcio italien des Quatre-**Nations**.
  Here is the Mazarin architecture, the wretched Italian pasticcio of the Four **Nations**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2748)

- Et les **nations** espéreront en son nom.
  In his name, the **nations** will hope.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:21)

- Les **Nations** unies portent une responsabilité écrasante en la matière.
  The United **Nations** bears a colossal responsibility for this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 415903)

- Europe des **nations** et des libertés (ENF)
  Europe of **Nations** and Freedom (ENF)
  ([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 5610251)

## More sentences

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

- Les lois ne font pas les **nations**, elles sont l'expression de leur caractère.
  Laws do not a nation make, they are but an expression of her character.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11684914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11684914) [\#845757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/845757))

- Le représentant permanent du Maroc auprès des **Nations** unies, son Excellence M. Omar Hilale, a déclaré que le peuple kabyle avait le droit à l'autodétermination, le décrivant comme « l'un des plus anciens peuples d'Afrique, qui subit la plus longue occupation étrangère ». L'ambassadeur a ajouté que « le peuple kabyle mérite de jouir pleinement de son droit à l'autodétermination ».
  Morocco's Permanent Representative to the UN, Excellency Mr Omar Hilale, said the Kabyle people have the right to self-determination, describing them as "one of the oldest peoples in Africa, who are under the longest foreign occupation." The ambassador added that "the Kabyle people deserve to enjoy their right to self-determination fully."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#10489565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10489565) [\#10489567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10489567))

- Vous ne suivrez point les usages des **nations** que je vais chasser devant vous; car elles ont fait toutes ces choses, et je les ai en abomination.
  You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 20:23)

## Grammar

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