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# nature — French to English

How French *nature* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: nature (136 764), natures (392). By style: everyday 238 · literary 37 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 7 263 · legal and administrative 21 503 · UN documents 108 104.

## nature

Used about 43 055 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 199 · literary ≈ 29 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 733 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 555 · UN documents ≈ 31 530). Meaning: [nature in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/nature/).

- Je suis joyeux de **nature**.
  I'm happy by **nature**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Glat64 · checked, community translation · [\#12457107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12457107) [\#11507310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11507310))

- Restons donc dans la **nature**.
  Let us stick to **nature**, then.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 523)

- Autrefois, ne connaissant pas Dieu, vous serviez des dieux qui ne le sont pas de leur **nature**;
  However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by **nature** are not gods.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:8)

- Nos amendements sont de **natures** différentes.
  Our amendments are of a different **nature**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 585183)

- Autres charges, par **nature**
  Other expenses, by **nature**
  ([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 5313149)

## kinds

Used about 34 676 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 406 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 243 · UN documents ≈ 27 026). Forms: kind, kinds.

- Toutes les espèces de bêtes et d’oiseaux, de reptiles et d’animaux marins, sont domptés et ont été domptés par la **nature** humaine;
  For every **kind** of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 3:7)

- Ces problèmes sont de deux **natures**.
  These problems are of two **kinds**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2035692)

- **nature** et quantité du déchet valorisé,
  **kind** and quantity of waste recovered,
  ([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 1691829)

- xiii) passe des contrats de toutes **natures**;
  Conclude all **kinds** of contracts;
  ([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 7174632)

- Ces objectifs peuvent être de **natures** tout à fait différentes.
  They may in themselves be of quite different **kinds**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 636742)

## types

Used about 12 684 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 469 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 081 · UN documents ≈ 10 135).

- Par ailleurs, la transposition par les États membres des directives adoptées par le Conseil en matière de lutte contre les discriminations de toutes **natures** sur le lieu de travail est souvent incomplète, voire inexistante.
  Moreover, the Member States' transposition of the directives adopted by the Council to combat all **types** of discrimination in the workplace is often incomplete or even nonexistent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 488970)

- Versements de la part d'organismes tiers afin de couvrir les dépenses de toutes **natures** liées à l'exploitation du HFR par le Centre commun de recherche.
  Payments by outside bodies to cover all **types** of expenditure involved in the operation of the HFR by the Joint Research Centre.
  ([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 4122908)

- Exercer librement des emplois de toutes **natures**;
  Freely undertake all **types** of employment
  ([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 22368743)

- Il n'existe tout simplement pas de système politique au niveau international qui soit à la hauteur, dans le contexte de l'évolution actuelle, où tant de problèmes de **natures** différentes exigent des règles communes.
  We simply do not have any political system at the international level that is a match for the development that is now occurring, where so many problems of different **types** require common rules.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 366326)

- 227. Ces infractions sont de deux **natures**: criminelle ou délictuelle.
  227. There are two **types** of offences: criminal and ordinary.
  ([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 13355743)

## different

Used about 5 898 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 469 · legal and administrative ≈ 925 · UN documents ≈ 4 504). Meaning: [different in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/different/).

- Des rapports de **natures** diverses ont été rassemblés dans une espèce de "débat omnibus".
  **Different** reports have been put together into an omnibus debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 272098)

- Il s'ensuit que, en vertu du droit de l'Union, les certificats réglementaires et de classification sont distincts et de **natures** différentes.
  It follows that, under Union law, statutory and class certificates are distinct and have **different** natures.
  ([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 3227030)

- b) Les documents présentés comme des rapports d &apos; évaluation regroupent des publications de diverses **natures**
  (b) Documents labelled as evaluation reports include a variety of **different** publications
  ([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 27925612)

- Monsieur le Président, je voudrais tout d' abord dire que nous discutons de deux initiatives de **natures** différentes.
  Mr President, I should like to say, first of all, that we are discussing two quite **different** initiatives here.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 224222)

- Il existe dans le pays un nombre important d &apos; organisations non gouvernementales qui mènent des activités de différentes **natures**.
  A considerable number of NGOs have been set up in the country to perform **different** tasks.
  ([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 11889380)

## various

Used about 2 486 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 234 · UN documents ≈ 2 252). Meaning: [various in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/various/).

- Les récentes hausses des prix ont été aussi fortes qu'imprévisibles en raison de spéculations de diverses **natures**.
  Recent price increases have been dramatic and unpredictable as a result of **various** speculations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1500102)

- 12. L &apos; action du PNUCID se heurte à des obstacles de plusieurs **natures**.
  12. The work of UNDCP was facing **various** constraints.
  ([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 2603437)

- Les lacunes sont nombreuses et de différentes **natures** : faible niveau de participation des femmes dans le domaine des technologies de l'information et de la communication, esprit d'entreprise quasi inexistant et déficit de représentation dans le processus de prise de décisions.
  The gaps are many and **various**: the low level of women's participation in information and communication technologies, the low level of entrepreneurship amongst women and their lack of representation in the decision-making process.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 434561)

- Les violences à l &apos; égard de la femme entraînent des conséquences de plusieurs **natures** :
  237. Violence against women has **various** repercussions:
  ([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 27687981)

- Elles sont de plusieurs **natures**, mais, dès à présent, les quatre actions préparatoires initiées par le Parlement nous donnent un bon aperçu de la question. Nous parlons ici de la coopération avec les pays à revenu intermédiaire en Asie et en Amérique latine, non couverte par l'ICD, ainsi que des échanges scientifiques et commerciaux avec la Chine et l'Inde.
  They are of **various** natures, but the current four preparatory actions initiated by this Parliament give a good outlook on what we are talking about: cooperation with middle-income countries in Asia and Latin America, which is not covered by the DCI, and business and scientific exchanges with China and India.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1214883)

## More sentences

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

- Il s'est évanoui dans la **nature**.
  He disappeared into thin air.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7332481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7332481) [\#8571739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8571739))

- Les belettes sont connues pour leur astuce et leur **nature** insaisissable.
  Weasels are known for their cleverness and elusiveness.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#9002614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9002614) [\#13010205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13010205))

- Dans sa chambre est accrochée une **nature** morte d'un peintre néerlandais.
  A still life by a Dutch painter hangs in his room.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#6162985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6162985) [\#1206174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1206174))

## 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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