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# naturelles — French to English

How French *naturelles* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: naturelles (77 256). By style: everyday 33 · literary 4 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 820 · legal and administrative 3 990 · UN documents 70 408.

## natural

Used about 68 294 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 761 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 907 · UN documents ≈ 61 607). Meaning: [natural in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/natural/).

- Ces fleurs sont **naturelles**.
  These flowers are **natural**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11404840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11404840) [\#11404863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11404863))

- Parfait! s'écria mon oncle, au grand scandale du professeur de sciences **naturelles**.
  Excellent!" cried my uncle, to the great scandal of the professor of **natural** history.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 912)

- car si Dieu n’a pas épargné les branches **naturelles**, il ne t’épargnera pas non plus.
  for if God didn’t spare the **natural** branches, neither will he spare you.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 11:21)

- Catastrophes **naturelles** dans l'Union européenne
  **Natural** disasters in the European Union
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1435566)

- Ministère des Ressources **naturelles**
  Department of **Natural** Resources
  ([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 264105)

## resources

Used about 1 482 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · UN documents ≈ 1 467).

- La Chine est riche en ressources **naturelles**.
  China is rich in natural **resources**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#277496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277496) [\#129349](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129349))

- 52. L &apos; exploitation illégale des ressources **naturelles** est un crime, une violation des droits humains et des peuples.
  52. The illegal exploitation of **resources** is a crime and a violation of human and peoples &apos; rights.
  ([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 13790024)

- Le Japon est pauvre en ressources **naturelles**.
  Japan is poor in natural **resources**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and frpzzd · checked, community translation · [\#281587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281587) [\#14600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14600))

- Le pays est riche de ressources **naturelles**.
  The country is rich in natural **resources**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pharamp and CK · checked, community translation · [\#47849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47849) [\#387535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/387535))

- Ce pays abonde en ressources **naturelles**.
  The country is abundant in natural **resources**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CM · checked, community translation · [\#47847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47847) [\#374069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/374069))

## energy

Used about 1 467 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 467). Meaning: [energy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/energy/).

- Comité des ressources **naturelles** et Comité des sources d &apos; énergie nouvelles et renouvelables et de l &apos; énergie pour le développement
  Renewable Sources of **Energy** and on Energy for Development (E/1994/25
  ([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 1889642)

## More sentences

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

- Beaucoup de phrases qui sonnent bien selon moi ne sont pas considérées comme **naturelles** par des locuteurs natifs.
  Many phrases that I think sound fine are considered unnatural by native speakers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2852021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2852021) [\#8552918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8552918))

- Avez-vous des boucles **naturelles** ?
  Are you naturally curly?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8296018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8296018) [\#7498951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7498951))

- Elle a des aptitudes **naturelles** d'artiste.
  She is artistic by nature.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#315348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/315348) [\#477903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/477903))

## Grammar

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